Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - IRO dropout width + mks tensioners = ?!!?

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slopvehicle
04-25-06, 12:23 AM
I got some MKS chaintugs for my Angus frame-- which is steel-- only to find that they don't fit so well. Maybe I should have gotten the 7mm ones "designed for aluminum frames"?

Damn, I had no idea.

Anyone else have this problem?

rlgosa
04-25-06, 12:26 AM
I had the same problem on my bareknuckle man! The al. ones fixed that problem.
46x17
04-25-06, 09:48 AM
The narrow ones fit the Angus fine. Just grease your dropout tips a little and force them on there.

aeser
04-25-06, 09:50 AM
they fit my mark v fine
slopvehicle
04-25-06, 06:37 PM
Hmmm. Will try again! Never thought I'd be greasing my, um, dropout tips.
slopvehicle
04-25-06, 08:44 PM
and BAM! it's a tight squeeze but the skinny MKS work on the Angus. Huzzah!

The orange Angus is rolling and it's awesome.
slopvehicle
04-25-06, 08:45 PM
sig test ....ignore.
TIMES UP!
04-25-06, 09:33 PM
Had the same problem with my surly and i just flipped the main part of the tensioner so the flat outside part was flush against the ends. worked well while i was running it.
-austin
slopvehicle
04-25-06, 09:37 PM
Had the same problem with my surly and i just flipped the main part of the tensioner so the flat outside part was flush against the ends. worked well while i was running it.
-austin


That's a cool solution. Didn't think of that while I was having the problem.
hyperRevue
04-25-06, 09:40 PM
Had the same problem with my surly and i just flipped the main part of the tensioner so the flat outside part was flush against the ends. worked well while i was running it.
-austin

Wait, what did you do?
slopvehicle
04-25-06, 10:28 PM
I think he means this:


You unscrew the tensioner such that it comes apart. Thread the "eared" piece--- which normally fits over the end of the dropouts-- backwards such that the ears up back and the more-or-less flat reverse side is flush with the frame. It'd be functionally similar, although it'd lose a small amount of length.