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11-30-16 | 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Lascauxcaveman

I believe you may just need a single-speed chain; wider across. AKA a 1/8" chain. The teeth on your sprockets are too thick (not spaced wrong) for the chain you have to drop down all the way over the teeth.

I ran into this problem when I built my fixie; the cog on back had teeth too wide to work with a multi speed chain.

[MENTION=280039]Lascauxcaveman[/MENTION] got it exactly right. We recently had this same problem rebuilding a kid's single speed at Bike Works in Seattle where I volunteer, and using a wider single speed chain as he describes was the fix.

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