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Old 01-01-10 | 10:37 PM
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From: South Orange, NJ

Bikes: 2008 Specialized Tricross, 1993 Giant Iguana rebuild w/ singlespeed drive train

Originally Posted by bigvegan
Have you considered spending a little extra money for an elliptical hub, so you wouldn't have to stress quite as much about magic gears and chain tensioners?

http://www.whiteind.com/rearhubs/singlespeedhubs.html
That is a nice hub. I have already considered it, but the problem is still the 47.5 chainline- which is much larger than the selection of SS/track cranks I have been looking at. Plus I could buy an entire wheel set for the price of that one hub alone.
As somebody mentioned, I do have vertical dropouts so chainline and chain tension are my headaches right now and a cassette hub with a chain tensioner is the cheapest way of fixing the problem. (magic gear if I can swing it.)
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