SickBikeParts Right Hand Side Chain Tensioner idler wheel options

[Fabian]

STOP IT I'M GETTING DROOL EVERYWHERE!

So am i, and i'm about to write Jim an emotively laden 3,000 word essay on why SickBikeParts needs not just to have a functional product range, but an aesthetically pleasing product range, and i am just one person of many prepared to pay a premium price to get my hands on not just a properly engineered product, but delightfully good looking and highly desirable engineering master pieces.

 

[FurryOnTheInside]

I will take flanges over a chain keeper any day of the week, but i'll take both design concepts if i have the chance to install them together as a complete engineered package.

That surprises me, I can't envisage a need for the chain keeper with the RHS tensioner, you're the one writing from experience though. Definitely on a final drive chain management system, I can see the need for the chain keeper there.


And I'm still gawping like an idiot at that last picture! Where's that from?

 

[FurryOnTheInside]

So am i, and i'm about to write Jim an emotively laden 3,000 word essay on why SickBikeParts needs not just to have a functional product range, but an aesthetically pleasing product range, and i am just one person of many prepared to pay a premium price to get my hands on not just a properly engineered product, but delightfully good looking and highly desirable engineering master pieces.

I have an opinion from reading MB sites that the majority of MBers would pay more for looks than for function anyway, and I am sure the guys at SBP know this already. They'll get there, just give them time. The hobby is still growing.

 

[Fabian]

They'll get there, just give them time.

I don't have time.
I want my bike to be an aesthetically pleasing artistic mechanical masterpiece, and i want it """NOW"""

 

[Fabian]

That surprises me, I can't envisage a need for the chain keeper with the RHS tensioner

I thought the exact same thing, but when the going got brutally tough, and when the system was pushed to breaking point, it revealed a small problem that required a small quick fix.
I would have much preferred to be able to order the Right Hand Side Chain Tensioner with optional (though expensive) Terracycle flanged idler wheels that had been given the SickBikeParts special treatment by being finished in anodised red or blue colour options.

 

[Fabian]

And I'm still gawping like an idiot at that last picture! Where's that from?

I can't remember. I found it somewhere floating about on the net.

 

[Fabian]

I have an opinion from reading MB sites that the majority of MBers would pay more for looks than for function anyway,

Although i want my bike to be an example of engineering perfection, i also want it to """look like""" an example of engineering perfection.

Many facets of life are moving examples of art, and i like art to be captivating as well as pleasing on the eye; my motorized bicycle included in that concept.

 

[FurryOnTheInside]

I thought the exact same thing, but when the going got brutally tough, and when the system was pushed to breaking point, it revealed a small problem that required a small quick fix.
I would have much preferred to be able to order the Right Hand Side Chain Tensioner with optional (though expensive) Terracycle flanged idler wheels that had been given the SickBikeParts special treatment by being finished in anodised red or blue colour options.

But a chain keeper isn't possible with the current straight arms on the RHS tensioner. They need to be somewhat L shaped. I hope they read this and make L shaped tensioner arms that a chain keeper can be fitted to.. actually the closer I look the more I can see it would have to be a clunky add on, for now at least. Certainly SBP can't redesign the RHS chain tensioner arms NOW, they only just got them made!

Oh yeah and anodized everything would be great too. I could get the anodizing done for next to nothing but for their other customers I'm sure it'd make a big difference, trouble then is how many of each colour.. they can't quadruple their unsold finished stock just to add colour choices; small businesses need to avoid the cashflow problems caused by too much stock.

Off topic now, but do you think the LHS tensioner cover plate is big enough to accomodate the 21T sprocket? Will the idler wheel go low enough? Will there be any leg protection from the cover plate?
I suppose you want those anodized in black red and blue and chrome plated, too! (so do I but it's not going to happen this year lol)

 

[Fabian]

A quick and dirty modification would be something like the concept pictured below, where the material is bent 90 degrees, allowing the disk flange tabs to meet each other over the 11 tooth sprocket, thereby acting both as a flange and a chain keeper:

 

[FurryOnTheInside]

The spring could be in the way. Hmm, depends on your individual bike's dimensions, height of your engine... stuff like that. Spring could be moved further up the arms I suppose, for less drag. But yes, that should work.