Subject: bike question relating to chain rings/crank system Ok, after reading several articles on parktool and other biking sites, I have a couple of questions relating to what I think is the chain rings of the crank system, which they didn't spell out clearly for a non-biking person. I have two mountain bikes and noticed that on my older one, it has a larger diameter on the largest chain ring in the crank system, than on my newer mountain bike. That said, the older one I feel gives me better pedaling because I can constantly pedal without having to pause. What I mean by that is, on the newer bike, I have to pedal, then the bike is almost going to fast and so I have to pause for a second on pedaling for my bike to slow down for a second, for me to pedal (hope this makes sense). As if I want to go faster but the stupid pedaling system is too slow for the speed of the bike. I only noticed this because I started to ride on the flat rode (practicing for the tri) instead of mountains. So, my question is, do I have to change the diameter of the largest front chain ring to fix this problem on my newer mountain bike, or is it the pedal stem length or the actual size of the bike because it's two different sized bikes? Does anybody else have this problem, the pedaling too fast for the bike? (assume I'm not going to buy a road or tri bike as my solution to this problem). Edited by auto208562 2005-02-16 3:36 PM
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