..go up in price if SRAM manage to sue us all??

£35-40 is pretty steep already but I just wonder if the big wigs at SRAM manage to Get their way, it will add a few bob to the current prices??

Have there been other bike ‘items’ that have come under patent whilst already on release to the general market, and did their prices alter??

DrP

Sram can’t sue anybody, they don’t own the patent. it’s a fair few years old already.

Gehl, a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of heavy machinery for construction construction and agriculture, filed a patent for alternating width sprockets in 1978. Patent 4174642 for a “Chain Drive Including Sprocket Having Alternate Wide And Narrow Teeth” has since expired. Click here to read the text of the original patent.