Re: [CR] Dumb track bike question

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From: "David Bean" <beandk@rcn.com>
To: CR List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:28:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [CR] Dumb track bike question


I don't see why a 1/2" chain should be anything but heavier than its 3/32" equivalent. It has the same side plates, but shorter pins and rollers (with the same diameter as the wider chain). Yet the heavier chain and its somewhat thicker cog and chainring seems preferred by otherwise weight-weenie track racers. Am I missing something?

David Bean
Arlington, MA USA
beandk at are-see-enn dot com