Trek has recalled around 700 electric road and gravel bikes in the US after reports of chainring bolts loosening. Announcing the recall on Thursday, the US bike manufacturer urged customers to ...
A narrow-wide chainring is a chainring with specially designed teeth intended to improve chain retention of 1x drivetrains. As the name suggests, narrow-wide chainrings have teeth of alternating ...
When it comes to drivetrain innovation, it’s easy to assume the big players have it all figured out. Oval rings, narrow-wide teeth, optimized offsets—it feels like every shape has been tried. But ...
Not all chainrings fit all cranksets. Most chainrings mount via a four- or five-arm ‘spider’ (the arms/spokes on the crankset). The spacing between these arms differs based on the intended gear range ...
In April we brought you an interview we did with Rotor about the company’s rings, including Marianne Vos’ history using them, but this fall, the company has released several new chainring options for ...
For decades the chainring was a simple component that transferred crank force to your drivetrain. But as racing and the quest for minor performance gains in cycling never end, a small group of ...
No one enjoys a chain drop. In an older Technique Tuesday, we showed riders how to quickly correct a chain drop in the middle of a race without having to manually put the chain back on by hand. Last ...