Mountain Biking - chain guides

Bikeforums.net is a forum about nothing but bikes. Our community can help you find information about hard-to-find and localized information like bicycle tours, specialties like where in your area to have your recumbent bike serviced, or what are the best bicycle tires and seats for the activities you use your bike for.



PDA

View Full Version : chain guides

jamesonaride
10-10-11, 09:03 AM
hello, I have a Cannondale chase converted to single speed. It's an outstanding bike with all new components. Right now I have a chain tensioner that mounts on the derailer mount. My question is: can i replace that tensioner with a bottom bracket mounted chain guide?
Thank You

scrublover
10-10-11, 03:18 PM
The answer is: yess.

http://labs.yesspro.com/products/etr-b
samburger
10-10-11, 10:12 PM
What's the deal with all the chain guide threads lately? I don't think I had ever seen a single one up until a few weeks ago, & now there have been three in a few weeks.

Not trying to call you out or anything Jameson, just a strange observation.

scrublover
10-11-11, 09:20 AM
What's the deal with all the chain guide threads lately? I don't think I had ever seen a single one up until a few weeks ago, & now there have been three in a few weeks.

Not trying to call you out or anything Jameson, just a strange observation.

What he's after is a chain tensioner - not a chain guide like on a multi geared setup. Very related, but not at all the same things.

Re: more chain guide topics. With the advent of 11-36 cassette availability that isn't the crappy low level shimano one or the stupid expensive SRAM one (as in, you can get one on mounted on a spider, and under $100) more and more riders I see are swapping to single ring front seatups.

Most bikes doing that will need some form of chainguide, even if just a bash/Jump-Stop setup.
samburger
10-11-11, 09:39 AM
D'oh! Guess I should actually read the thread before I call myself observant:rolleyes:

Yeah I'm not at all surprised that more & more people are switching to single rings up front after what I've read/been told about how most of the gears of even a smaller 3x7 setup are just overlap. If I had known that when I was ordering parts I probably would have gone the same route & saved myself a lot of trouble with clearance issues on the front derailleur.
jamesonaride
10-11-11, 04:30 PM
Thanks for all the responses. and yes chain guides seem to be the instyle thing right now, and honestly thats partly why i want to change over from a rear derailer hanger type tensioner. right now i have a raceface evolve s.s. crankset, and i am looking to switch to a chainguide, and remove my rear tensioner. thank you