Originally Posted by
fuji86
If the chain tensioner is useful on a BMX, it's equally as useful on the track frame for pretty much the same reasons.
I had totally different reasons in mind. Where I used to jump my bike about 10 feet in the air and land flat bottom on wood or concrete sometimes, the result was wheel movement. Once bmx switched to 14mm axles this was pretty much solved. Even with dropouts that were dead flat you could move the wheel because you never landed with both wheels, you
try to land and at an angle.
I do not jump my current track bikes 10 feet to flat or with insane lateral loads landing a 380 or 320 that was supposed to be a 360. Or an abubaca on a fence, etc. etc.
I have no tensioners on my current bikes and have no need for them.