Chain ring bolts

mloc123

Anywhere in the city centre stock short bolts? Converting a triple crank to a single... plan is to remove the rings and just bolt on the largets one with shortened bolts, I presume this will work?

doozerie

Yes, it'll work, but only as long as you can achieve a good chain line and with a tripe chainset that may be a little trickier than with a double. If you are using the middle chainring it is likely to be easier to achieve a good chain line than if you are using the outer chainring.

I've bought a set of shorter bolts in Cyclelogical in the past (a year or so ago I think). Very pricey for just a set of bolts though, but that seems to be the nature of parts sold for fixies/singlespeeds generally.

mloc123

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=19227

Looks like thesw will do the trick..

cdaly_

Won't the outer ring bolt onto the inside of the spider? That would improve the chain line...

mloc123

It should do, I will be using a hub spacer kit anyway(singlespeed) so chainline shouldn't be an issue

doozerie

cdaly_ wrote: »

Won't the outer ring bolt onto the inside of the spider? That would improve the chain line...

Yes, that's what I did with mine (on a double chainset). My previous post wasn't clear, I should have referred to middle chainring *position* rather than to the chainring itself.

...oh, and my referring to mloc123's triple chainset as a "tripe chainset" was a typo rather than an aspersion on its quality.

mloc123

After stripping the chainset last night I think I will just buy a few washers at lunch time, the current bolts are about 1mm too long.

Holyboy

Why do that?? Any shop in the country should have single chain ring bolts,if they don't I wouldn't shop there,Mikes Bikes in Dun Laoghaire have them in stock at one fifty each,not too pricey,not sure where you live though!

mloc123

Tried my local, not very good bike shop this morning, but they had none. 4 10mm washers (5c each) did the job in the end.