Comments on: What Size Chain Ring To Use?

By: LetMeSumUp

LetMeSumUp — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:10 +0000

I believe Ken is exercising some good old fashioned boasting with his post. See, by referring to the cartoonishly large chainring as a ‘Granny Gear’ he is implying that the standard gear his associated group (Midwesterners in this case) uses is much larger and that only weak people in the area, or grandmothers, would stoop to using a chainring that small. This is a circuitous way of implying that midwesterners and implicitly Ken himself are much stronger than the rest of the population.

By: Ishte

Ishte — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:28:36 +0000

Eh… here in the Midwest, we’d only refer to that as “Granny Gear” if that sprocket were on the rear cassette and the front cassette were on the smallest sprocket available. “Granny Gear” is definitely not the biggest sprocket on the front, as front cassette means bigger = harder work/faster speed. (whereas on rear, bigger gear means less work/slower speed.)

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:52:29 +0000

Out here in the Midwest we’d call that one “Granny Gear”.

By: Nik

Nik — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:13:13 +0000

From here: http://www.fibre-lyte.co.uk/fl/fl_cycles_carbon_chainring.html

They are very helpful and will do custom cut outs to match your chainset if required.

Nik

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:15:49 +0000

Hi,

I am building a bike and would like use a large chain ring. Where can find one like in the pic? Thanks.
Cheers,
Vanessa

By: Nik Bowdler

Nik Bowdler — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:44:09 +0000

Hi,

I quite like this pic, do you have a higher resolution version of it?

Much appreciated if you could send me a copy.

thanks,

Nik

By: Nik Bowdler

Nik Bowdler — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:18:53 +0000

Hi,

Just to let you know, the chainring in the picture is a 77 tooth.

regards,

Nik