[Yak] Tikit chain-dropping alternatives

[Sam Santos]

Hmmm...  Anytime I've had the chain drop on the inside it's been pretty
trivial to get it back on.  I turn the crank into a position that makes it
easy to grab the chain and pull it back up onto the crank.  It's maybe taken
me 15-30 seconds?

Wish I had some more specific pointers on this for you.

--sam

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:45 PM, <PHolden960 at aol.com> wrote:

> OK, so I am bleeping frustrated with what I'm now calling my "Parking
> Tikit".  (cuz its been laid up a week due to this insolvable  problem).
>
> Chain drops off ring to the inside.  Next to impossible to  retrack.
> Normally it would not be such a biggy, except chain  gets stuck btw the
> crank and
> bottom bracket -- by either the nobs on ring  for a granny gear, and/or the
> triangular-shaped fob on the folding hinge.   It seems the only solution is
> to extract the crank (not something you want to do  several times on the
> way from A to B).
>
> I tried attaching the OEM chainring guard (since replaced by the thicker BF
>  guard) to the inside, but it rubs against the stay.
> _http://www.flickr.com/photos/folderpete/3491185147/in/photostream/_
> (http://www.flickr.com/photos/folderpete/3491185147/in/photostream/)
>
> Question -- can I 'bend' that fob back so there is room to extract my
> jumped chain?  (I mean, will this alter any other function of this  fob?)
> _http://www.flickr.com/photos/folderpete/3492009516/in/photostream/_
> (http://www.flickr.com/photos/folderpete/3492009516/in/photostream/)
>
> I already expect to file off those crank moldings.  Hopefully  these
> changes will make it EASIER to get back on the road.
>
> I've about given up on having the chain not fall off.   UNLESS, I go to the
> Season's Tikit.
> -FP
>
>
>
>
> sorry 'bout the trash  \
> V
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