Tacoed chainring
04-19-07, 03:16 PM
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Tacoed chainring
After asking the question "how on earth does one crash from unclipping" earlier today, I got to experience the process on my final turn going home. I managed to keep the bike upright and avoid any personal injury, but I tacoed the biggest chainring on my triple in the process.
I'm guessing all I have to do is find a replacement part and I'm back in business? if not what other parts are likely damaged as a result of this. the derailleurs look ok and I wouldn't think the chain needs replacement.
I'm guessing all I have to do is find a replacement part and I'm back in business? if not what other parts are likely damaged as a result of this. the derailleurs look ok and I wouldn't think the chain needs replacement.
04-19-07, 03:29 PM
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you.... did what?
I've never even heard of someone taco-ing a chainring before! If it's really just the ring, then you should be able to bolt on a replacement and be good to go. However, you may want to get the bike checked out for other damage.
I've never even heard of someone taco-ing a chainring before! If it's really just the ring, then you should be able to bolt on a replacement and be good to go. However, you may want to get the bike checked out for other damage.
04-19-07, 03:31 PM
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Check your BB and the interface between crankarm and spindle. Other than that, if you landed on anything else, it's probably obvious.
04-19-07, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by platypus
you.... did what?
04-19-07, 03:42 PM
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Check your BB and the interface between crankarm and spindle. Other than that, if you landed on anything else, it's probably obvious.
04-19-07, 04:12 PM
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Tacoing a chainring is quite an accomplishment. I use my large ring as a rock ring for log hopping and basic trials and I bash that thing into log and concrete and bricks all the time and bent teeth are all I get.
04-19-07, 05:09 PM
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I'd be most concerned with a bent spider after something like that... before you mount your a new ring, make sure the spider is undamged...
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Originally Posted by Yoshi
Bike polo accident (my friends bike):
04-19-07, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by sogood
That looked like a crummy bike!
04-19-07, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Yoshi
Bike polo accident (my friends bike):
04-20-07, 02:07 AM
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Originally Posted by slvoid
Thats a biopace ring, keep riding.
04-20-07, 06:54 AM
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One usually does that to the large ring when one does not have enough links in the chain and goes big-big. But stepping on the ring to deform it is pretty rare, if at all.
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Originally Posted by platypus
you.... did what?
I've never even heard of someone taco-ing a chainring before!
I've never even heard of someone taco-ing a chainring before!
I did this the very first time I ever went mountain biking. Was in the granny gear trying to muscle up a steep embankment and just BAM! the chainring folded in half.
That's right: it FOLDED IN HALF! Top half of the 22 tooth inner ring collapsed inwards on top of the bottom bracket. I had to pound it back flat(-ish) with a rock in order to ride home.
