Fixed gear with a motorcycle chain
 

I swear I used to have a picture of a track bike with a motorcycle chain on it, but I can't find it. Anyone have anything to this end?

Yikes, why would anyone do that. MC chains are huge! I want a to see it too.

uh, i had a friend who ran an MC chain on his bmx...tore up his chainring.

I'm not saying it's remotely practical - I just thought it looked cool as hell.

:eek: an MC chain weighs about 12lbs !! :eek: :eek:

was this it?

http://oldroads.com/show/pict0141.jpg

OK, you're right. That's rad.

No, but that's twice as cool as what I was trying to find.

Running a 1/8" chain on 3/32" rings = running a 3/16" chain on 1/8" rings.

Okay.. not exactly equal, but theres no reason you cannot do it.

The bike in the picture looks like it has an appropriately sized chainring too. I'm gonna do that to my lowrider, as if it's not hard enough to ride as it is.

That there's your olde timey inch pitch stuff, except only really wide. Noisy and slow are the words that come to mind.

jp, what are you doing with beer.

block chain

Speaking of a Motorcycle chain on a bike, here's a motorcycle (well, scooter) with a bike chain. (and bike wheels, bike cranks and bike pedals). I saw it in person a few months ago. Sorry about the pic, I didn't take it. If anyone is interested, I'll try and track down some better pictures and post them in a different thread.

http://scoot.net/gallery/2006/07/ame...l_P7270396.JPG

A BMXing friend did this once - it's cool until you need to take the chain off.

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kmc makes a heavy duty dirt jumping chain, I've got one in my room right now. I was gonna use it on my fuji, then when I got it I realized how big it was and put it aside, if anyone wants it we could work a trade...

I think I remember someone talking about it with the picture something about never breaking a chain again.

I gotta see more pics of this bike.. wtf is going on with the "seat tubes"? is that a pivot at the BB? left hand drive? what does that bolt/nut assembly do in front of the bb? those look like cottered cranks but I dont see any pins except for what looks like a set screw. SO MANY QUESTIONS!!!

http://oldroads.com/show/pict0140.jpg

Not a great shot, but it might answer some of your questions...

Even has a brake

Too bad you won't get the same reliability with the radially laced wheel or the tubs on it.

yeah, I changed the #'s in the url to get that one additional shot, but it doesn't help too much. cool spring-loaded spoon brake though.

i think that was a picture from oldskooltrack

It was at the schlittz and giggles.

you know I don't need beer to rage.

Anybody know where I can pick up a 10mm chain for my Dur-ace setup?
Found a 50 tooth chainring on Ebay but no luck on replacement chain.
I left what mounted on bike and the puppy has started to rust.
Chain currently soaking in Coca Cola as 'Mythbusters' convinced me it will remove
rust.
A guy from Oz suggested motorcycle shop ?

vous comprenez ?

keep checking ebay for 10 pitch chains and be prepaired to spend some money

Stop while you're ahead.

Hmm, guessing you got and will ask a sky high reserve.... serves me right... j/k
All kidding aside,
I really liked how the setup would 'fool' the other racers into thinking I was 'running light'
when I was actually running a ratio close to or bigger than my 'normal' 1/8 " setup

As for the photo I posted, the original page says it's Stephen Hartson's 1892 Lovell Diamond. I can't find any other good information about that particular model, but this page here has an informative article about another lovell model, as well as an article on the history of table utensils. If that isn't a sweet find, I don't know what is.