When I met Sam Hill, all I could say was your arms looked so strong for like 15 minutes.

It was really embarrassing.

Hey, Pinkers, it's episode 89 of the Pink Bike podcast, and in today's show, we're going to talk about all things drive-train related.

Now, if you've ever ripped off a derailer mid-ride or just have never been able to get your shifting to work

quite as well as you think it should, well, this might be an interesting show for you. So we're

going to be moaning a lot today over the next hour, of course, but I think there's a lot of good things to say about

our one-by-drive trains as well, especially if you've been around long enough to know what

cross-chaining means, or maybe to have used shifters that don't have indexing, or maybe you

remember what a Bullet Brothers chain tensioner is. Long before there were clutches,

we'd clamp these aluminum things

underneath our drive-side quick-release nuts,

and then a spring would go down to the derailer cage,

and it would pull it to add more tension

to try and keep the chain on.

So, Kazimer is back from his anime convention in Las Vegas last week. Kaz, did you ever

use one of those Bullet Brothers chain tensioners? Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I know

you're talking about. No, I never used one of those. Yeah, I remember him, but I just never, yeah,

never had one, but they did exist. I thought they looked interesting. Bikes would come in with them on the shop.

You'd like the little spring.

You could make noises come out of it and stuff.

It was like a little guitar string.

Uh-huh.

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