Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Basic Math? 52-46=6 so 6 teeth less, a bicycle chain chain is 1/2 pitch , can you take it from there..
Not quite. You can remove 1/2 of the number of half-links indicated by the tooth difference. So the 6 tooth difference means you can remove 3 half-links. However, to maintain matching ends, you can only remove two half-links.