Chain Tensioner Interesting Idea for Tensioner...

Dave FZ1000 · Mar 26, 2018

""""I avoided all this by simply getting an arch idle arm chain tensioner since I put it on I've never had a problem."

Sorry I screwed up the quote thing. I'll get better. Looked up the
"arch idle arm chain tensioner". Yes, that does look like a good design!

I was also thinking about just a strap hanging from the Seatstay holding the original chain tensioner from flopping either way. Materiel would not need to be all that thick either, as it's in tension.

Frankenstein · Mar 26, 2018

Dave FZ1000 said:
""""I avoided all this by simply getting an arch idle arm chain tensioner since I put it on I've never had a problem."

Sorry I screwed up the quote thing. I'll get better. Looked up the
"arch idle arm chain tensioner". Yes, that does look like a good design!

I was also thinking about just a strap hanging from the Seatstay holding the original chain tensioner from flopping either way. Materiel would not need to be all that thick either, as it's in tension.

I don't have a photo of this to share but I took a piece of aluminum flat and bolted that to the tensioner and the other end was zip tied to the top chain stay/seat stay and bent slightly to hold the angle, 3 or 4 zip ties in a crisscross pattern that later could be cut for easy removal.

FurryOnTheInside · Mar 26, 2018

I bought a high quality tensioner wheel pulley whatsit, with TWO sealed cartridge bearings inside, and it came with this hard alloy plate *free* hehe, so i just used that with the pulley bolted into the "wrong" hole, and attached the plate to both stays with a few P clips. I'll try to redesign sometime and use flat hard alloy strip, but this is functioning surprisingly well.

I repurposed another mountain bike chain device (the RSP) to control the vibes in the top run of chain too.