Tom:
Any chance that the chainring is 1/8 in. rather than 3/32 in.? That'd explain why a std chain wouldn't drop down. Never heard of other than 1/2 in. and 1 in. chain pitch on a bicycle but...I don't go back to far.
Charlie
Charles T. Young
Honeybrook. PA
>
> I have a question about matching chain to a chainwheel. I am attempting
to
> set up a flip-flop hub--right now the fixed gear side of it--with a
> cottered crank from the fifties. I cannot get any chain that I have to
> work on the chainwheel; the chain rides over the top of it; the tension
> seems correct. From looking at it, the chains I have attempted to use do
> not fit correctly between the chainwheel teeth. What do I measure on the
> chainwheel and chain (is that called pitch on chainwheel?) to determine
the
> proper match between the two? And should I find such a match, will that
> then cause problems with the track cog in the back?
>
> Trying to get my school commute 50's Viking path racer ready before school
> starts.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Tom
>
> Tom Hayes
> 18585 Munn Road
> Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023
> hayesbikes@nls.net
> hayes@jcu.edu