Eric Olthwaite
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Because most people are right handed and their right legs are a bit stronger than their left legs, so this places less stress on the crankset.Why does the chain have to be on the right hand side of the bike?
Because most people are right handed and their right legs are a bit stronger than their left legs, so this places less stress on the crankset.Why does the chain have to be on the right hand side of the bike?
The theory is there, but in practice even your average cyclist very rarely has a power output imbalance of more than 55/45% right to left.Because most people are right handed and their right legs are a bit stronger than their left legs, so this places less stress on the crankset.
For 26,000 Euros you would think they could tension the chain properlyFelt manufactured one for the USA track cycling team, but it's a bit more expensive than the normal fixie
https://eu-en.feltbicycles.com/products/ta-frd-trackbike
The big snag is the pedals, being threaded 'differently' on each side they will try to unscrew.The sprocket will be fine if it has a lockring though.It is the wrong side?
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Is it just not what everyone is used too and therefore isn't actually wrong, its just different?
Why does the chain have to be on the right hand side of the bike?
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For a similar reason that cars built to be driven in countries with British historical connections are right hand drive.Why does the chain have to be on the right hand side of the bike?![]()
Pedals are easy enough to sort with some tandem parts.The big snag is the pedals, being threaded 'differently' on each side they will try to unscrew.The sprocket will be fine if it has a lockring though.
Ridden both on and off road including 24h races running LHD never had a pedal unscrew... utter myth!The big snag is the pedals, being threaded 'differently' on each side they will try to unscrew.The sprocket will be fine if it has a lockring though.
Because (safety) bikes were invented in Britain, where we ride on the left, so a rider mounting a horse would do so from the left, when bikes came along there was no reason to change, so the chain went on the right, away from the riders’ clothes.It is the wrong side?
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Is it just not what everyone is used too and therefore isn't actually wrong, its just different?
Why does the chain have to be on the right hand side of the bike?
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Not an utter myth. The likes of BSA, Chater-Lea wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of setting up for LH threads for no reason, no engineer uses LH unless he has too. Perhaps your example of 1 has been lucky, but try again with a loose fitting pedal thread and dodgy rough bearings.Ridden both on and off road including 24h races running LHD never had a pedal unscrew... utter myth!
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I’ve seen in museums very early bicycles from RH drive countries with the chain on the left, Opel, Peugeot.Because (safety) bikes were invented in Britain, where we ride on the left, so a rider mounting a horse would do so from the left, when bikes came along there was no reason to change, so the chain went on the right, away from the riders’ clothes.
From and engineering point of view, of course its a big no no... however from a real world perspective, on multiple bikes, using different pedal & crank arm combinations, I've not had a loose pedal.Not an utter myth. The likes of BSA, Chater-Lea wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of setting up for LH threads for no reason, no engineer uses LH unless he has too. Perhaps your example of 1 has been lucky, but try again with a loose fitting pedal thread and dodgy rough bearings.
https://www.purecycles.com/blogs/bi...se-threading-precession-and-what-it-all-means
Careful! I have stripped a fixed cog on the road.I'm not sure I'd like a LH fixie. It works but it asks a lot of the lockring. I suppose putting the cog on with a big chainwhip (vastly more torque than you can ever apply through the pedals) should mean the lockring never comes into play.
You animal!Careful! I have stripped a fixed cog on the road.