Originally Posted by
SpedFast
As stated earlier, this chain ring isn't worn out. It doesn't skip with a new chain and under normal circumstances I would continue using. I replaced because I was in the process of replacing the small ring, chain, and rear cassette. Since it showed noticeable wear, it got replaced too but kept, unlike the one it replaced last season. That one wouldn't hold a chain anymore and I probably should have taken my picture with that one before discarding it. It got trashed prematurely from a Shimano knockoff chain that stretched and wore out everything else before I caught it. Hence all the new parts. Plus now I run more chains in rotation and wax @200 miles, measuring each when it comes off the bike. No body is getting worn out parts, even though for some rusted out pieces of junk that get left on my doorstep, that would still be an improvement.
Again, it goes back to what I said earlier. You implied that the chainring is worn out and is going to start skipping at any point as evidenced by your statement, “
Plus, it's so much safer than face planting on the handle bars when you put a new chain on and it skips.”
If you want to change ring for your own reasons, that’s your business but you are implying that the ring is too worn for
your use but not for others to use. If the ring is too worn for
your safety, then it is too worn for others to use as well…even if the other people have hunks of junk.
In my opinion the ring isn’t worn enough to warrant but your mileage may vary. I’d have no problem using the ring for many, many more miles. Nor would I have any problem mounting on someone else’s bike. However if I felt it was worn enough to be hazardous to the point of causing a ”face plant on the handlebars”, I would not reuse it nor put it on someone else’s bike.