At 07:39 PM 11/8/2006, Michael Allison wrote:
>What are you talking about?? small to small, large to large. That's
>a bad chainline, a lot of friction and a no, no. Sure it works but
>then you've never raced a bike.
Steve might not be talking about racing. If a bike's chainstays are long enough, the big-big and small-small combinations can work fine, particularly with a nice flexible chain. Plenty of bikes for loaded touring have very long chainstays, and some of the nicest on-topic touring bikes had on-topic Campy Triple cranksets.
Mitchell Gass
Berkeley, CA, USA