Head over to SingleTracks for a great post on the ealier days of mountain bike development. Anyone know what is going on with those chainrings? I can’t imagine how something like that even worked, between chain length issues and getting your front derailleur to shift that. Check out more of these here.
The chainring style was called a Kamikaze Chain Ring – used for the old school mid 90′s Downhilling. Think/google John Tomac and Missy Giove. The tracks were big wide open ski field dirt/gravel runs rather than todays more tech tracks.
how did it work? Given the chain length I can’t imagine once you’re on the little ring you could shift back up.
Let alone run the granny ring without rubbing chain on the front derailleur cage.