mickle
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Hold on. Is the actual chain ring bent or is it just a tooth or teeth that are bent?
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Hold on. Is the actual chain ring bent or is it just a tooth or teeth that are bent?
OP
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Seats
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Chain ring is bent - difficult to show in pic! But you all asked.
outlash
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Given it's bent, wouldn't a top down image show the damage better?
One from an "end on" view would show any bend better.
Roadrider48
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It was sarcasm!
mickle
innit
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Video please. In HD. And 3D.
outlash
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4K, live in the now.
bonsaibilly
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Given that it's the teeth that do the biting, I reckon that's a moot question. Or are you about to recommend the Mickle Method for attacking a chainring with a hammer? BB
bonsaibilly
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Accepted that most cameras will be crap at expressing a chainring that's bent on the fore-aft plane, but even so, photographing it face-on is about as useful as a dart-gun in a Cincinnati zoo enclosure.
BB
bonsaibilly
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That does, to me at least, look like a chain has scraped the bejaysus off a chainring's paintwork over a specific arc of the chainring's circumference, although it doesn't look like it's bent it laterally.
I'm still going for the already-bent-when-purchased conspiracy theory. In my humble opinion there are reasons why some retailers can offer freakishly lower standard prices than others for what's effectively the same bike in manufacturing terms... eg one reason might be they're honest about their markups and passionate about giving their customers/the cycling community a great and long-term leg-up; or eg they do all their components in-house a la Giant; or eg another reason might be they source B condition components (stuff that came off the production line slightly below the QA threshold) for their builds.
Hey, I'm a cynic, fowgeddaboudit.
BB
mickle
innit
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- 53.933606, -1.076131
Nope. Adjustable spanner.
mickle
innit
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- 53.933606, -1.076131
A secret supply chain of B condition components? Wow.
mickle
innit
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- 53.933606, -1.076131
A bent ring wouldnt have made it through (amongst other quality assurance thresholds) the shop's PDI.
Assuming this was a bike supplied to the customer complete and ready to roll - rather than in a box with the front wheel, pedals and seat out.
Assuming this was a bike supplied to the customer complete and ready to roll - rather than in a box with the front wheel, pedals and seat out.
Tojo
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Even these days of CNC and lazer measuring accuracy, thing still seem to creep through ye olde QC department......I like the conspiracy theory, does Giant have there own little area 51.....
bonsaibilly
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Even these days of CNC and lazer measuring accuracy, thing still seem to creep through ye olde QC department......I like the conspiracy theory, does Giant have there own little area 51.....
Nope they're good. Ribble do, though. It's called Preston. bb
