Monster Track Bike Help !!!!
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Monster Track Bike Help !!!!
hey whats up. i was planning on participating in monster track but i came across a problem with my front chain ring. apparently its not the standard (or more common) 130cm (or mm i think), its a 110. so i cant find one between 46 or 48 teeth. currently im pushing a 52 x 17 free wheel and a friend of mine loaned me a rear wheel. i dont have enough dinero to buy the propper chain ring at the momment. basically i need a smaller chain ring 110 (cm or mm not sure) with 46 or 48 teeth. if someone can please help i will appreciate it dearly. even a crappy spare bike u have line around. i jst need it til sunday. i live and work in NYC, im not going anywhere with our bike. im a bike messenger like most so people know who i am. well if u can help or know of someone that could, please right me a private message. thanks for reading....
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gotcha covered on the 110 46'er.
it ain't pretty, but it will do you the job.
gimme your # and I'll hook it up
it ain't pretty, but it will do you the job.
gimme your # and I'll hook it up
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Not to be a dick, but you're a bike messenger who doesn't know that chainring measurement is BCD?
Bolt Circle Diameter - The center to center distance in mm between two adjacent chainring mounting holes multipled by 1.7.
Bolt Circle Diameter - The center to center distance in mm between two adjacent chainring mounting holes multipled by 1.7.
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why not use a different size cog? well...i guess going to a 52x20 or something would seem kind of ******** (20t chosen at random). i mean, that's a pretty big cog.
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that's just being a dick....and a bike nerd. I didn't know that at all. In fact, there's a lot I don't know. Of course, I'm not a messenger anymore. Oddly enough, I've learned more about bikes since I've *been* a messenger. ....one of those "it takes time" things. "Bolt Circle Diameter"...hm. Learn something new every day.
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Yeah, I apologize.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge, and I guess I just expect bike messengers to know more about their bikes than an average rider.
Anyway. Sorry again.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge, and I guess I just expect bike messengers to know more about their bikes than an average rider.
Anyway. Sorry again.
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1.7. i was trying to remember that number the other day. i knew i read it on sheldon brown's site, too, but couldn't remember where on the site.
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Originally Posted by hyperRevue
Not to be a dick, but you're a bike messenger who doesn't know that chainring measurement is BCD?
Bolt Circle Diameter - The center to center distance in mm between two adjacent chainring mounting holes multipled by 1.7.
Bolt Circle Diameter - The center to center distance in mm between two adjacent chainring mounting holes multipled by 1.7.
Some might....I'm mechanically disinclined myself. So...thanks for teaching me what BCD means!
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yeah i am but im not schooled on bike parts like u are. i did not know it was called bcd. thanks anyways. as for chombo im pretty sure iknw u or seen u in person. check PM. thanks.
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Whoa. It sounds like you primarily ride freewheel. You are aware
that Monster Track is a no hand brake/fixed race, right?
that Monster Track is a no hand brake/fixed race, right?
Originally Posted by allidoispedal
hey whats up. i was planning on participating in monster track but i came across a problem with my front chain ring. apparently its not the standard (or more common) 130cm (or mm i think), its a 110. so i cant find one between 46 or 48 teeth. currently im pushing a 52 x 17 free wheel and a friend of mine loaned me a rear wheel. i dont have enough dinero to buy the propper chain ring at the momment. basically i need a smaller chain ring 110 (cm or mm not sure) with 46 or 48 teeth. if someone can please help i will appreciate it dearly. even a crappy spare bike u have line around. i jst need it til sunday. i live and work in NYC, im not going anywhere with our bike. im a bike messenger like most so people know who i am. well if u can help or know of someone that could, please right me a private message. thanks for reading....
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Originally Posted by Quarters Mostly
Whoa. It sounds like you primarily ride freewheel. You are aware
that Monster Track is a no hand brake/fixed race, right?
that Monster Track is a no hand brake/fixed race, right?
see u sat
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Originally Posted by hyperRevue
Not to be a dick, but you're a bike messenger who doesn't know that chainring measurement is BCD?
Bolt Circle Diameter - The center to center distance in mm between two adjacent chainring mounting holes multipled by 1.7.
Bolt Circle Diameter - The center to center distance in mm between two adjacent chainring mounting holes multipled by 1.7.




