This has only happened a couple of times, but it's a royal pain. I have a Sugino XD crankset (48-36-26), and two or three times I've overshifted so that the chain falls off the outside of the big ring. Normally, this should be no big deal because the large pin on the outside of the big ring, behind the crank arm stops the chain from wedging into the crank, and you can work it back on by correcting the shifter slightly.. FWIW, I'm running either a Shimano or SRM 9-speed chain.
In my case, however, it appears that the pin is too short, with the result that the chain drops *past* the pin and, while it doesn't wedge into the crank, it gets tensioned against the *inside* of the pin. This makes it difficult to work the chain over to the side far enough to slide it back past the pin and remount it, and it's a dirty, messy job. This hadn't happened to me for many months, but yesterday, coming back from a presentation (in suit and tie), I had to dismount and deal with this rather messy procedure. Does anyone know of a way to put a collar or something on that pin so that I don't run into this problem? I know the right answer is to adjust my front derailer so that this never happens, but sometimes the first warning of trouble is this mess, and I'd like to avoid that in particular. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bicycle Lifestyle" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bicyclelifestyle?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
