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I'm looking at running a Treck Crockett singlespeed for CX racing taking advantage of the Stanglehold dropouts. The max movement is 15mm which I'm hoping will be enough to potentially run 2 x sprockets at the rear ( I know the chain line will not be perfect) and maybe using one chain for both, worst case 2.
I'm think i'll have more opportunity of this working with a half link chain.
But does anybody know if there is a half link chain with some kind of fast link connector os is it a pin pushed in every time. As that may be problematic if I have to swap chains out often.
Anyone do anything similar or run a Crockett SS?
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just get two SS chains, they take seconds to remove with a connecting link
half-link chains are ridiculously heavy and somehow really hard to remove pins from
What Jo said
You could use one 'standard' (SS or 3/32) chain with TWO quick links and two shorter parts of a chain, one with say 6 links, the other with 8.5 links, i.e. only get one half-link rather than a whole half-link chain.
Yeah, if you need a half-link chain, you can achieve the same chain length by adding a single half-link to an ordinary chain - and avoid the weight and almost all of the stretchiness.
some full link BMX chains come with one half link in the box / bag so you fine tune the length.
Sven - love that idea never thought of that. #problemsolved.com
Was simply thinking about a half link chain in case I sim[ply couldn't get the required tension due to the ration and the fact theres only 15mm adjustment front and back.
as finbar said, just get a single half link and add it to your chain rather than buy a chain completely made of half links.
I've been running my Crockett singlespeed since I bought it last year.
I fitted gears a few weeks back but for some reason don't like it as much. It'll be going back to singlespeed as soon as I get time to convert it back.
Sven has nailed it.
Some level of caution is required, though...
1/ Use of a half link prevents use of narrow-wide chainrings
2/ If one of the rear sprockets is used more than the other, it (and the chain) will wear at a different rate to the other sprocket, causing slippage when you change over. In this case, a chain for each sprocket makes more sense