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Old 06-May-2006, 22:04   #15
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Originally posted by Carbon749
Plenty of people have swapped the 15t for 14t and there are no horror stories. If it was a dangerous modification with problems I would guess that it would be all over the DSC forum.

I think it would be interesting to try to correlate 14-tooth sprockets and undersized (weaker) 520 chains with the chain failures (and case damage horror stories) that are so often reported here in the DSC forum. Chain tension is higher when you use a smaller front sprocket.

[Edited on 5-6-2006 by Shazaam!]
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