@gschenk what does truing imply more than lacing and tension? Straightening the wheel with a hammer? :-)

I have a confession. It was me who pushed his glasses into the chocolate vat, arranged for the bosses daughter to meet him (she's pregnant now), and I loosen his brakes and stand on his spokes each night.

I bet you lick the molten chocolate off his arms and spit it in his bearings too

How abrasive would chocolate be?

My real confession is that there are some users who I don't bother answering. They either come up with such ridiculous issues, silly questions, and contrived situations, that I fail to see how any person could do it. They're either trolls, AI experiments, or aliens. When anyone answers them, they argue. I try not to waste my time. So, he's the third on the list. Competition: guess the other two :-)

I don't think it would be abrasive. Raw cocoa might be better in his bearings :-)

david and that banned guy whose nick escapes me

Frisbee aka Blam?

paparazzi now

No, he's not on my list.

I have to go for a bit, I'll check later. Ciao!

With all the hooplah around narrow-wide chainrings.... why don't chains simply have wider bits on their outer plates, so that the holes are the same size on both parts of a link ?

thus giving the benefit of a closer fit to the chainring teeth, and still allowing the use of a front derailleur ?

you don't typically need a narrow wide when you've a derailleur

the cage keeps your chain on just fine, it'd be a lot of work for no advantage

@CristianCiupitu a new rim is quite true. Getting correct lacing and consistent chain tension gets one a true wheel right away. Whereas fixing an out of true wheel needs a lot more patience imo. For example, the warp might be just shifted around the rim, or tensions might be quite different around the wheel. In the later case the wheel may be true in the stand but as soon as one sits on it, it deforms again.

@Criggie wider outer plates at the gap would increase the weight and production cost without contributing to strength. Perhaps the ability of lateral deflection would be reduced as well.

@gschenk Ah, there speaks a man who has experienced the joys of attempting to true a junkyard wheel ...

Just finished a quote for a guy who had his bike trashed by a car ... $8256.90.

It makes me weep to see what happened to it.

Nup. A fad. It will pass.

I read some slightly more convincing claims from CX that it would help to get mud out of the chain.

I'm yet to be convinced that CX is a thing. Oops, who said that? Smack! Ouch!

A month after I moved away from Toronto there was a CX race in my neighbourhood park. It seems it is now a thing in America, wouldn't have thought that.

Mr Trump will have them exported :-)

Perhaps all north American CXers preemptively fled to Canada? I think it was more a local thing. Seen on YouTube that done were riding in fancy dress. Still, would have loved to be there even more. Unfortunately CX season here in southern Bavaria is only about a month. After the weather is too nasty for road bikes, it doesn't take long until everyone is busy with skiing.

Ah, I'll be near you in Summer. Visiting my brother in Italy and going to Frankfurt to see an old friend.

Going back to the Moleman posts ... definitely a troll. The name is a hint.

Then you will indeed pass through here. I'm at the main route from Germany to Italy, on the way to Brenner pass, in the Inn river's valey.

Unless I fly :-)

Moleman is quite an amusing troll though. Not the belligerent type.

thought you'd cycle

Need to cook now, otherwise its delayed and my father misses his afternoon ride and will be cross for a week.

cheers

Ciao!

@gschenk I didn't say wider outer plates - I said wider bits on the outer plates. So the length of the outer plate that is near the tooth (as opposed to being the overlap part) would be thicker, or shaped so that instead of narrow-wide chainrings, you could have a narrow-narrow only.