Agreed, with one exception. I found the doubled stress on our tandem made shifting rings significantly more difficult and have gotten much better performance from pinned rings. Also I am pretty fussy about rings and usually order hi end sugino. They look good, shift well & wear well. As for shiny.... well I ride through a fair bit of dirt & muck. Need to clean regularly.
Michael On Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:22:15 AM UTC-4, dougP wrote: > > Do you recall the cost of the steel Surly ring? > > When you compare the cost of plain flat aluminum to comparable rings with > ramps'n'pins there seems to be quite a premium for the extra goodies. > Perhaps helpful with STI or similar but with friction the basic version > works fine for 10-12 tooth differences. > > dougP > > On Friday, May 24, 2013 8:33:45 PM UTC-7, MobileBill wrote: >> >> After chewing up one alum alloy chainring _ the middle 36-tooth one _ I >> decided to go with Surly steel, and there are no downsides and maybe some >> real advantages. It's got 5 thousand miles on it and looks shiny as the day >> it was born. Of course, no noticeable wear. No shifting pins and ramps and >> that kind of yaya, but neither do vuelta or most other replacement rings. >> How does that affect shifting? It's a front derailleur (for pete's sake). I >> can't imagine why I would care if the shifting were 'easier" (supposing it >> could be)? And in your case, it's the big ring on the front derailleur _ >> how much difference would ramps and pins make in that situation? With a >> friction shifting system, the pinless rampless systems might even be >> preferable. Short is, I got no problems shifting, and would probably get >> all surly steel, if I could only wear the other two rings out. >> >> On Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:53:47 PM UTC-5, Arthur Lewy wrote: >>> >>> I run a 44t outer on my XD double which needs replacing and RBW no >>> longer carries them. Recommendations for sources? Has anyone tried a >>> Surly steel chainring for 2x or 3x use? I wonder how front shifting would >>> work. Thx all in advance. >>> >>> Art Lewy >>> Seattle >>> Green Ramb >>> >>> >>> -- 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?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
