Dave Taylor
Rex kwan Do
Some will say I'm fighting an uphill battle but thanks to @UtahJoe I have an FS ss that I love. It's down to 20.25lbs and climbs like a hardtail only smoother. I used it with an old 11 speed Shimano chain with a 32/17 combo all the way to 32/20 with no problems. I use an Absolute Black oval chainring(NW) and Chris King, Endless and Wolftooth cogs in the rear. It worked great for 40 miles on the gas at batsto, some hartshorne hammer rides, Ringwood xc race and wayway yesterday.
My problem is that I tried to install a 21t and it skipped at mooch in the lot so I ran my hardtail. Thinking it was like any other tensioner and skips with large cogs I wrote it off. Well I went to set it up for wayway with the 20 I had previously used and it still skipped...wtf? So, I remembered I installed a new kmc z400 chain on it. I proceeded to try two other. Ew chains and same problem. These were all Kmc z or the real big heavy chains that @Mitch uses. After an hour I realized the chain was staying on the chain ring and following it around then snapping off rather than releasing as the chainring spun. It did this on the rear as well. My rigid never had this problem but I used raceface chainrings(NW as well). Is this happening because of using a tensioner or do I need a special NW chain? I ended up putting the original chain from my fatbike on for wayway and it worked fine. If NW chain is the answer what's the strongest?
My problem is that I tried to install a 21t and it skipped at mooch in the lot so I ran my hardtail. Thinking it was like any other tensioner and skips with large cogs I wrote it off. Well I went to set it up for wayway with the 20 I had previously used and it still skipped...wtf? So, I remembered I installed a new kmc z400 chain on it. I proceeded to try two other. Ew chains and same problem. These were all Kmc z or the real big heavy chains that @Mitch uses. After an hour I realized the chain was staying on the chain ring and following it around then snapping off rather than releasing as the chainring spun. It did this on the rear as well. My rigid never had this problem but I used raceface chainrings(NW as well). Is this happening because of using a tensioner or do I need a special NW chain? I ended up putting the original chain from my fatbike on for wayway and it worked fine. If NW chain is the answer what's the strongest?