| Re: My 'Bent Is Starting to Annoy Me
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:15:12 +0000, Peter Clinch
<p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> The
>chainwheel is not HP Velotechnik specific, or even recumbent
>specific: it's a standard chainwheel bought off the same shelves
>everyone else has access to, so the extent to which it's a problem
>because it's a recumbent is it's in a slightly more vulnerable spot
>if you crsh into things.
It is a bit easier to create chain slack on many recumbents and if you
combine that with hard stop-start in your spin, you can do damage.
I've seen a few MTBs that have had the same thing happen. You have to
work harder to do it on a well-adjusted, indexed diamond frame, and
their simpler drive trains usually bend or blow out the rear
derailleur as the point of failure when it does happen. Recumbents
have a better chance of taking that force out on the chain ring.
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...
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