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Bklyn
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Bikes: 1982 Lotus Legend (steel-frame touring bike); 1982 Fuji S10S (converted to a singlespeed: 46x16); Specialized Crossroads hybrid (the child taxi).

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Two Teeth — Big Difference

On the one hand, I am happy.
My excellent LBS took back my Origin8 crankset, which was just garbage. (Crankarm kept unscrewing itself, and the aluminum was just destroyed; chainring bolts fell out or simply snapped when tightened.) They agreed that it was poor quality, and they gave me a Sugino XD to replace it, asking me only to pay the difference. Nice.
On the other hand, I am slow now.
I wouldn't have thought there'd be that much difference between a 46x16 (Origin8) and a 48x16 (Sugino). But people are just bombing past me on hills, leaving me idling at red lights.

Two teeth, big difference. I sort of prefer the old Bobby Clarke.



New, "improved."





Original flavor.
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