FlyingLaZBoy
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'16 ICE SprintX fs, '16 Rocket, '12 KHS Mocha
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Kind of a funny note on the Ti SXP -- we put it together, and started riding around the neighborhood a bit, with me on his (my) old SXP beside him on the Ti... I looked over, and the rear DR was stretched all the way forward!! I immediately said "Pull over, and don't shift gears - your derailleur's maxed out!" He was in the 39T up front, and about 24 (3rd) in back, and there was very little slack left... like the chain wasn't long enough, or something funky about the DR. We got back to the house, and counted the links -- 119 -- and looked up the specs on the RANS website. 119 is the right chain length, all right... for a REGULAR frame, but this is an XL!!! The XL spec is 127... so whomever assembled it at the factory put the wrong chain on. I asked about it at RANS, and heard (I'm paraphrasing), "Yep, we had a guy who just couldn't keep things straight, back then -- but he's long gone..." Dave added the missing 8 links, and all is well...
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