[CR]Stronglight 93 chain-jam problem

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From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:37:36 -0700 (PDT)
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Stronglight 93 chain-jam problem

I have a new bike ( Clean 1973 Raleigh Gransport, $75 shipped, whoo-hoo!) with a Stronglight 93 crankset. A previous owner chucked the outer chainguard, moved the middle ring to outer position, added a 48T middle ring, to get a triple (42 - 48 - 52)

The chain looks like an early 1990's sedisport.

Shifting from middle ring to large ring, the chain frequently jams between the chainrings. These are original 1970's stronglight rings which have a shoulder on one side only. The shoulder on the side where the countersunk hole for the chainring bolts is. In its current configuration, the shoulder from inner-middle-outer when looking down while riding in the saddle are on the left, left, right. This keeps the middle and outer rings as close as possible together, flat-side of these rings against the spider.

When i shift onto the middle ring, the chain appears to be centered between the inner and outer rings.

Is this crankset unfriendly to narrow chains ??

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA