I want a fancy looking wide based 14T sprocket for a new build. Who makes one?
I have a few superstar sprockets so they are my benchmark. Ideally it should be lightweight so cromo isnt an option.
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Fancy looking single speed sprocket
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My mates run Boone Ti ?
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Boone are lovely if you can get one I had a beautiful one but sold it on :'( there are some other makers about depends on how nice you want
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Boone looks quite nice, the guy from homebrew is a total tard so wouldnt buy from him again.
anything else I should be looking at?Posted 4 months ago # -
King
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rennen make some lovely stuff and in pretty colours as well
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Boone FTW
DSC_6414 by martysavalas, on FlickrPosted 4 months ago # -
Ooh, likeing the rennen stuff. The Boone sprockets won't really go with the other bits of the bike.
One final bid before I buy a Rennen .
Does anyone make a sprocket cnced from a solid lump of carbon fibre?Posted 4 months ago # -
Can't imagine so. Not exactly playing to the strengths of the material.
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i have a lovely Niner one, lighter than my old Surly but they're nice too
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As fibre-lyte make chainrings from CNC carbon I thought someone may have done the same with a sprocket.
I guess muddy/ sandy conditions wouldn't be ideal.Still not seen anything with a WOW factor
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do they really? blimey. I'm off to google...
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well, ****** me.
under the fibre-lyte brand name martin and john hansell have been fabricating carbon bits for bicycles, motorcycles and motor cars since 1992, and currently turn out a rather tasty range of carbon chainrings - teeth and all. all the cyclists to whom i have mentioned these have had the same intitial reaction as myself, along the lines of 'that'll never work' or 'they'll break as soon as you put any pressure on them'.
Me too!
however, i have been wrong before (several times), so it seemed like a good, if slightly worrying idea to ask if i could road test a pair. after all, if the hansell's were selling them, surely they'd be alright - wouldn't they?
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so i was wrong yet again. for some reason most of us cyclists seem to have this notion that carbon fibre is a very brittle material and that making the chainring teeth out of carbon is fine for relaxed pedalling on a flat road with a tailwind, but not much else. well, i beg to differ. despite being out in the sticks on roads that only barely resemble that description, i have been, and will continue to be, more than happy to cycle obscene amounts of kilometres with nary a worry about my transmission.
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Alloy 14 tooth sprocket = about 8 weeks life expectancy if used off road regularly.
Here's my Chris King 16 tooth after 3 months
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I have a lovely Niner one
Was going to buy one when in the states next year - my concern would be longevity over Surly
Ali v Steel cog question..
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Ideally it should be lightweight so cromo isnt an option.
if you wan't it to last then ti. alu cogs wear too quick imo.
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Re: nedrapier
That article is written about road, front chain rings ie no mud and the chain tension spread over 20-28 teeth. For a rear sprocket off road conditions are somewhat harsher.
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Hmmm, I've seen some of those Fibre-lyte chainrings (a mate has some on a display bike with his name engraved on them) and I personally wouldn't want to use them. They look properly spindly, they flex like a good un
Looks lovely though
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Hang on you want a SS cog and the main requirements are silly light and look nice?
thats ok if the bike is for putting on scales and taking pictures of it, but if you want to ride it, uphills and in the mud and stuff get a >16T steel jobby, O-O, surly, etc.Posted 4 months ago # -
DONK, If you want to do that, that's fine.
I want mine to look nice too Posted 4 months ago # -
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Re: nedrapierThat article is written about road, front chain rings ie no mud and the chain tension spread over 20-28 teeth. For a rear sprocket off road conditions are somewhat harsher.
Totally agree, don't think anyone said otherwise.
Still surprised about the chainrings, though!
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They look properly spindly, they flex like a good un
they do different versions. I've got the intermediate stiffness on my road bike and they don't appear to flex (50T with a 135 BCD might help though)
and a chunky 1/8th 47T on my track bike which is rock solid
Totally agree, don't think anyone said otherwise.
me too!Posted 4 months ago #
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