Originally Posted by TheBikeRollsOn

This really frustrates me. I put a ton of time and money (not that much but more than I'd like) into my conversion. I had to learn a lot about bikes and I tested my patience several times in doing so. And to think that someone could but this much time a presumably money into a conversion only to give up and start over because the chain is a tad loose. It doesn't sit right with me. Also, how do you go all the way about converting a bike and not know what a horizontal dropout is. It makes me think you couldn't have done a lot of your own wrenching or had a good relationship with your bike mechanic because any decent bike mechanic would have been able to solve the chain problem. One more thing, how do you go about breaking your chain so often?