In a message dated 9/30/03 8:58:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, InchPitch@aol.com writes:
> Roller chains are not appropriate for lightweights. They belong to the
> fat-tire-crowd. The whole point of block chain was that the solid links
> wouldn't
> stretch, but would transfer power...just what a racer needed. When he came
> out of
> retirement in his mid-fifties, Reg Harris said, "I have every confidence in
> the new alloy cranks, but a sprinter must use block-chain! Incidentally, on
> 30
> days of training, Harris was able to win the British Empire Sprint title on
> a
> bike fitted with archaic inch-pitch-block-chain.
>
Roller chains are perfectly acceptable as users if you want to ride inch
pitch on an old track set up and they run a little more smoothly. Particularly if
you don't own a block chain. It was done in the day.
Stevan Thomas
Alameda, CA