Loose Screws shut down a while back - they still have a website, but I don't think much is left at this point.
I have kind of a love/hate relation with the XD2 - specifically, the hidden bolt arrangement makes me grumpy... But, it always seems to work OK. I just replaced the cranks on the Quickbeam with a new XD2 - I actually just wanted the arms - I reused my Surly Stainless Chainring as it has amazing wear characteristics. When I took the new ring off of the new arms, those dinky little spacers dropped out (actually, one had been misaligned when they inserted it and swaged itself into the hole a bit). I just swapped over the wide ones from the old crankset, which worked fine for me. Of course, on the QB, I'm only using toothed chainrings on the middle and inner positions - so it moved the "big" ring (middle position) a couple mm's inboard. I don't think it will be a problem, but I have not tried to use the inner ring yet. But, yeah - spacers. They are just aluminum spacers. Steel would work. Any bike shop with a decent parts drawer should have some if you don't want to wait until RBW sends them to you. And +1 to Michael H's tip on grease to lock 'em down. But, I got into the habit long ago of disassembling any crankset and greasing all the threads and touchy bits and retorque-ing everything anyway. This time I just had to swap rings at the same time. https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclofiend/14397987778/ - Jim / cyclofiend.com On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 6:20:26 PM UTC-7, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > Zach, I have owned three XD2 cranks and two of them needed 1-2 mm spacers > to move the middle ring out and prevent the chain from falling between the > middle and small ring. This was right out of the box. A good LBS should > have a collection of spacers. There's also an on-line retailer - loose > screws or loose parts - which specializes in these kind of small parts. > > This plus the goofy hidden bolt create more set-up work than I welcome in > a crank. Too bad because it is otherwise a great value. > > Michael > > > > On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 3:13:28 PM UTC-4, Zack wrote: >> >> Hey all. >> >> My normal google fu is not turning up answers for this, nor has a call to >> Riv or a few local shops in Portland. >> >> This is my problem: >> >> I replaced my Sugino XD2 stock chainrings with the Rivvy Rings. I didn't >> think that I needed the spacers as I had new rings (boy howdy was I wrong, >> lesson learned). So now the space between the middle and the small >> chainring is bigger than the space between the Large and the middle, which >> causes the chain to "hang" in between the two rings. I purchased .6mm >> spacers, which moved the middle chainring over just far enough so that the >> problem becomes the same, just between the Large and the middle chainrings >> (i.e. the .6mm spacer is too thick). >> >> So, does anyone have any idea where to get more of these? Or what size >> they are? I have one in my hardware box, pic is attached so you know what >> I am talking about. >> >> Also, if you have a Sugino crankset, keep these, they are important lol. >> >> >> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BoR8I9aQ_Hs/U8bOpoShWiI/AAAAAAAAB98/onnTsbQRHtE/s1600/photo.JPG> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
