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05-02-21, 09:32 PM

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ReidH

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Originally Posted by JaccoW

Today in adventures in 11-speed:

I wanted to shoot some more pictures of what you can run into when using these cranks with modern 11-speed gearing.

Now these are modern Spécialités TA Pro 5 chainrings, one of which I still had lying around the other I ordered because I wanted a smaller inner chainring. The cranks were originally a triple and came with the mounting bolts for a triple. So I ordered a bolt set for double chainrings and this is what happened:

Hi Jacco, I'm sure thinner spacers can be found to accommodate for the thinner 11 speed chain. The front shifting will suffer from the lack of ramps and pins on the rings.

Reid

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