A triumphant return to this thread... so after noodling through (with all your assistance) my 1xN thoughts I doubled down by shortening my chain on the existing Sugino triple and continuing to ride throughout the month of June and July. I never missed my big or small ring and was getting pretty used to the 36T main ring but often felt I could go w/ a slightly higher #T in the front. Even with the shortened chain I continued to get chain hop on the front end, mostly with a ghost shift up to the big 46T chain ring when I was in the higher/smaller gear in the back. It was actually pretty consistent even w/ a fairly short chain.
I was just about to order a set of Surly Stainless chainrings, 40 or 42T when I go the opportunity to trade in my (useless to me) 180mm WI Eno crank along with some other goodies for a 175 mm WI Eno crank, installed 44T SS chainring and some other goodies. WOW this crank/chainring is sweet. I love the look both from on and off the bike and I love the feel. I went ahead and changed out the chain and cassette at the same time. The Saluki does deserve a new derailleur at some point but this exage salvaged off my XO-3's original equipment is doing fine for now. So far so good w/ chain jump, I may end up adding a Paul chain keeper just in case but for now the combo of SS chainring and new chain is working good and solid. http://dr2dc.blogspot.com/2014/08/new-drivetrain-feeling.html <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-zjS5Ygj609A/U-GvQCibGoI/AAAAAAAAFKg/IHTL9WdisS4/s1600/1982+Trex+6xx+%281+of+3%29.jpg> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bON_-yH2J2Q/U-GvU9pvzdI/AAAAAAAAFKo/UD4JVRrEuTM/s1600/1982+Trex+6xx+%282+of+3%29.jpg> -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
