silly crank question
delcol
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Got to ask this stupid question :oops: sorry in advance...
Ok here goes.
I was building my new bike up at the weekend.(well new frame) i stripped the parts off of the pace to put on my new frame. As i was removing the crank
a raceface dues xc i noticed one of teeth on the middle chainring had snapped off.
i have no idea how and when this happened the crank is 2 years old and came off another bike last year that i sold.
so my silly question is.
Will the dues crank be ok to use with one tooth missing off the middle chain ring,.
i tend to use the middle ring more than any other..
i konw the logical thing would be to replace the ring with a new one but like i said the drive train is quite old so to do that it would probably require 3 new rings a new chain and new cassette.
And i cant afford to do that right now (thanks to being made redundant in summer) the bills have started to arrive ,, daughter has just started school and christmass is only a few months off.. so money is kinda of tight at the minute (not used to being poor :shock: )
cheers. DC
Ok here goes.
I was building my new bike up at the weekend.(well new frame) i stripped the parts off of the pace to put on my new frame. As i was removing the crank
a raceface dues xc i noticed one of teeth on the middle chainring had snapped off.
i have no idea how and when this happened the crank is 2 years old and came off another bike last year that i sold.
so my silly question is.
Will the dues crank be ok to use with one tooth missing off the middle chain ring,.
i tend to use the middle ring more than any other..
i konw the logical thing would be to replace the ring with a new one but like i said the drive train is quite old so to do that it would probably require 3 new rings a new chain and new cassette.
And i cant afford to do that right now (thanks to being made redundant in summer) the bills have started to arrive ,, daughter has just started school and christmass is only a few months off.. so money is kinda of tight at the minute (not used to being poor :shock: )
cheers. DC
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Only one tooth should be fine - presume you didn't notice it while you were riding?I don't do smileys.
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nah.. never noticed.. i aint got a clue when or were it happened. the crank was on my heckler before i put it on the pace.
it was on the heckler for 12 months and has now been on the pace since october last year..www.bearbackbiking.com
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I'd just ride it until I noticed a problem.I don't do smileys.
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It may accelerate the chain and cassette wear a small amount, but not that much I imagine.
Middleburn slickshift chain rings have some really small teeth scattered around the chainring to help shifting.0 -
ride_whenever wrote:Are you sure it's not a shifting gate?
pass not sure i didn't really pay attention to it i just noticed what looked like ie a gap between the teeth as if one is missing...www.bearbackbiking.com
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Raceface rings often have a short tooth to aid shifting. If it looks like the one by the top right mount here then it's normal.Statistically, Six Out Of Seven Dwarves Aren't Happy0
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Same with Shimano it's most noticeable on the granny ring, looks like a couple of snapped teeth but they're to aid chain pickup.0
