Are my chainrings worn?

[bigfella]

Just bought a new bike that I'm cleaning up and making good.

I had to drill out one of the chain ring bolts which was a bit of a pain. Is the larger chain ring too worn to reuse?

Thanks.

 

[MrGrumpy]

well from my experience gear cogs should be ok as long as they are not hooked, your ones from the picture look worn tbh.

 

[Globalti]

It looks too worn. Put a new chain on and try to lift a link off the ring; if the rest of the chain moves around the ring there's too much space between the teeth.

 

[bigfella]

Craps, its hard to find a replacement ring!

 

[Steve Austin]

Looks alright to me. I would use it

Only problem with using a worn chainring is it can wear a chain quicker. but tbh, unless you are planning on doing 20k on if this year i wouldn't worry

 

[bigfella]

Tricky one, other than that I could get a new crank / chainring.

 

[totallyfixed]

Easy to tell big fella, put a new chain on cos at some point you will have to anyway, stick it in the highest gear and give it some welly, you'll soon know if it's worn or not!

 

[Fly]

Don't do what I did and wait tell you have missing teeth...

 

[longers]

If you end up replacing it, can I have it if I pay the postage please?

 

[bigfella]

I'm sure we can sort something out . What you got planned?

 

[longers]

What you got planned?

It's a secret but I'd like to use it as a stencil.

 

[bigfella]

A secret, well in that case........

 

[bigfella]

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It looks too worn. Put a new chain on and try to lift a link off the ring; if the rest of the chain moves around the ring there's too much space between the teeth.

I agree with that, it looks totally cream krackered, I'd change that as soon as I could, what state is the rest of the transmission in?

 

[bigfella]

I checked that, the cassette is absolutely fine. I assume that the bike was built with part used components.