Chain Tensioning

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

So Paul suggests spacing out sprockets farther apart than exact C-C? Doesn't that really increase the bearing load?

Not knowing the context in which he said that, I would assume at least part of this is to take up mechanical slop in the average team's system.

If you go exact c-c, you're actually going to be under that number by whatever slop exist in all the holes and shafts in the system.