…….I remove the outer chain ring and replace it with a bash? Middle ring is 32T, biggest rear sprocket is 32T. Cheers

Work it out yourself!

Take the chain off
Wrap it round the two biggest chainrings/sprockets (ie the 2 32T rings), but NOT through the rear mech. Make sure its on all the teeth properly. Shorten so when pulled tight there is an overlap of one pair of links.

Basically as you would when you shorten a chain from new

(Going from 44T biggest to 34T biggest (running a 32T casette) I removed 3 pairs of links)

As Above

42-32=10 links

FAIL for cottonwool!

It would more likely be 44 – 32 = 12T ~ 6 pair of links anyway

Nope – its 3 links – the chain only goes round a half of the big ring – and the various angles all change – I recently did this and it was 3 links I removed.

So two epic fails 🙂

You’re all in agreement about what a link is yeah?

Nope – its 3 links – the chain only goes round a half of the big ring – and the various angles all change – I recently did this and it was 3 links I removed.

Agreed. I took off my big ring and fitted a 36t middle and only lost 2 links, so that works out pretty much the same as you.