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Old 11-07-17 | 07:15 AM
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Bikes: Marin Bolinas ridge, Carlton Corsa 5, Falcon Olympic 12, 98 Shesh Rockhopper,

“And it's done. Not too happy with the tune because the alignment of the cogs and rear gears are off. When in small front/small rear the chain is rubbing on the center cog. All good with the other two so I'll just use those two for now until I figure it out in the future. Rear wheel is original Ritchey but front had a black Wolber so I grabbed one silver old school from my stash. Also found a Ritchey tire in my stash, old but if I ever use the bike a lot, I'll switch to another newer pair.”

You will prob never get small front and small rear to run without rub, because of the 3 rings up front, you can get away with “cross chaining” on a road bike with 2 rings up front.
Cross chaining will stretch your chain as they are not really designed with sideways movement ability.
On 3 ring set ups you would use the small ring for the 2-3 larger cogs on the rear and then centre ring for the centre 2-3 cogs and big ring for the small rings on the rear.
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