Hi Mark, Another data point: I've got VBC double on my Hunqapillar, and it's also "pretty darn straight".
BTW: love the cold-weather pix! Stay warm my friend. shoji On Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 5:03:10 PM UTC-5, Mark Reimer wrote: > > Hah! I'm ready. Great idea about turning it 90 degrees though. I'll give > that a shot. While I have it off the bike, I'll try laying the large ring > on a granite surface, that should shed some light as well. > > And yes, can never have too much grease. > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Bill Lindsay <tape...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Mine is "pretty darn straight", but I'm using a WI bottom bracket as >> well. 3mm seems like kind of a lot. Maybe pull the arms and put them back >> on 90 degrees different and see if that changes anything. Maybe you should >> >> ##brace yourself for divisive comment## >> >> grease the spindle >> >> ##resume normal level of readiness## >> >> >> On Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 1:18:25 PM UTC-8, Mark Reimer wrote: >>> >>> I've been riding with a White Industries VBC crank on my Atlantis since >>> the spring and it's been great, except for one nagging thing. The large >>> ring doesn't seem to be dead straight/flat. If I look down at the chain >>> ring while I am pedalling, I can see it moving from side to side in between >>> the front derailleur. That means it is really hard to trim the front der. >>> and not get any buzzing from the chain scrapping against it. It has to be >>> *JUST* right to not contact. >>> >>> Now I have some single speed White rings and they are all dead straight. >>> So I'm curious... could it be the cheapo BB I have (It wasn't even 10 >>> bucks. bought it to test the spindle length and decided to ride it till it >>> died. Turns out it's quite tough!), or do White rings have a certain amount >>> of flutter? >>> >>> It's about 3mm of total side-to-side movement I'd say. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/o9w805ajRsc/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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.
