pictonroad
Old School Hero
I hate myself for engaging...
chains, not that I used and wore out many, were actually industrial stuff that happened to be the right pitch and link sizes used on index geared industrial grade transfer/transmission usage that used cogs profiled such they were a gnats eyelash close to the profiles used on 21/24 speed gear sets.
I've bought a chain that cost over £1m for work. Funnily enough, it was made by a famous bike chain manufacturer. I can categorically tell you that the high end chains designed for bikes would be significantly better, on a bike, than an 'industrial' chain. Whatever that is.
But either grade, paired with the mentioned tyres, were about as good as it could be, could easily out-stop any single disc F or F&R equipped MTB
I ride a Full sus 29er with twin piston saint brakes. In the alps I used 2.3mm thick 200mm dia discs front and rear. On a sustained descent from the top of the gondola at the Swiss France border down into Chatel I managed to discolour the steel in single descent.
If you genuinely believe you are putting more braking force through a rim brake then everything you've written can be discounted.
chains, not that I used and wore out many, were actually industrial stuff that happened to be the right pitch and link sizes used on index geared industrial grade transfer/transmission usage that used cogs profiled such they were a gnats eyelash close to the profiles used on 21/24 speed gear sets.
I've bought a chain that cost over £1m for work. Funnily enough, it was made by a famous bike chain manufacturer. I can categorically tell you that the high end chains designed for bikes would be significantly better, on a bike, than an 'industrial' chain. Whatever that is.
But either grade, paired with the mentioned tyres, were about as good as it could be, could easily out-stop any single disc F or F&R equipped MTB
I ride a Full sus 29er with twin piston saint brakes. In the alps I used 2.3mm thick 200mm dia discs front and rear. On a sustained descent from the top of the gondola at the Swiss France border down into Chatel I managed to discolour the steel in single descent.
If you genuinely believe you are putting more braking force through a rim brake then everything you've written can be discounted.
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