On Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:00:57 UTC+11, Wyatt wrote: > > I’m always surprised when I hear people say they have no problem running > 1x setups without a narrow wide chainring. I had a drive train set up that > way for a week (I was trying to get a 1x11 done super cheap) and every ride > I went on I dropped the chain at least once. Maybe if you only ride on > airplane tarmac smooth roads? Every bump I hit was a potential chain drop. > I suppose there could have been other ok solutions, but I switched out for > a cheapo narrow wide ring and that drive train hasn’t dropped a chain > since.
Ditto here - my touring bike, which has vertical dropouts, has for the past couple of decades been running a Rohloff hub with a chain tensioner. Even though the chainline is always perfect, when I initially set it up, without a chain keeper, the chainring would jump off often enough - once a week or so - that I eventually fitted a derailleur with the stops screwed down as a chain keeper. No chain drops since then. At the time I fitted it, narrow-wide chainrings didn't exist. I suppose I could try a narrow-wide chainring when the present one wears out: <http://www.users.on.net/~njpayne/bikestuff/DSC0529.JPG> Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/2d7b5db3-84d1-4467-9981-240ba88deac2%40googlegroups.com.
