Hey JP - I think photographing with a *severe cross-chain* looks cool, in a silly, laughing-in-the-face-of-danger-but-not-really sort of way. And I know you're not *supposed* to, but I sometimes (read: frequently) ride with the chain crossed like that anyway, so long as the chain clears the front derailleur and the rear can take it and feels/sounds like it's not dying a slow torturous death. Also, I think SRAM has gone on record saying they're less concerned about cross-chaining than say, Shimano and Campagnolo.
Patch, who's living on the (jockey wheels') edge in BK, NYC On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 9:38:51 PM UTC-5 MoVelo wrote: > I'm curious, and I know I have seen this in numerous bike photos before, > but why is the chain so severely cross chained. That being the big cassette > cog in the back and big ring in the front? Is there a convention for > photographing bikes that I am unaware of, or do most folks cross-chain like > this and I am missing out on the pleasure by lack of education? > Now I could be totally misunderstanding the photo, but with my eyes and > the resolution of the digital photo is looks as tho the outside (ie largest > ring) is in fact a guard and not a toothed chainring. Am I wrong and the > chain is in fact on the middle chainring? > I am not trying to be critical, just trying to understand why I seem to > see this setup in so many seemingly staged photos. Do most folks ride their > bikes in this fashion? > Just curious. > > JP > > >> On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 10:40:56 AM UTC-5 mcgr...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> I'm going to throw up a WTT thread at some point, but the Ron's Ortho >>> bars have just a couple of inch or inch and a half too much backwards reach >>> for my 62cm Hunqapillar (pictured here with a 120mm Technomic). I think >>> I'd be better off with a Billie bar. I'm in northern NJ, work in >>> Manhattan, if anyone would be interested in a trade... >>> >>> [image: Screenshot 2022-02-10 161030.png] >>> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/8a74ee47-bcfd-453c-8727-26bf0b793e9an%40googlegroups.com.
