Have a problem with the Favorit project. The chainline alignment is way wrong. The chainring is too far out from the centerline of the bike. The chain would have to angle back towards the centerline dramatically to reach the rear cog. This won’t work on a single speed bike.
I did a few experimental hacks like putting the chainring on the inside of the crank, but it still wasn’t enough.
Tomorrow I’ll add some spacers between ring and crank, but I fear that won’t be enough. The only remaining things will be to jam the rear wheel further right, re-dish the spokes, and if all that still fails, find a new, shorter spindle for my bottom bracket. I need to check my diagram again, but I’m pretty sure there was no alignment capability on that spindle last time I took it apart.
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Dont quite understand your problem fully. I guess the sproket at the pedal is too far out compared to the rear sproket. Is the pedal sproket as close to the centerline as you can get it? How far off are they. You should be able to measure by stretching a string along the big sproket then seeing how far out of wack it is at the small sproket.
Should the rear wheel be turned 180 with the chain on the other side of the bike?
Take some pix. Interesting problem.
73,
wa3scm