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Old 10-08-10, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by tombailey
Can you explain (as simply as possible) why this is?
The tighter you make the chain turn around a sprocket, the less efficient it is. You can get more involved than that, but that's the simple way of looking at it.
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