Pushing a car vs pulling a car
Only the car is a bike chain
And you are the derailleur
You are not grabbing onto the chain and pulling it
You are applying force onto the chain and moving it in the direction of the force
You want the chain to go the other way, you redirect the force
It’s a pusher damnit.
worth noting that there’s a seat post binder wedge deely tukt in there
The chainring is pushing the chain and the chain is pulling the cassette.
I think.
post can’t be empty
i think both are being pulled.
as soon as the first couple-handful teeth of the chainring come to pass (assuming the chain is still close to its nominal pitch and the chainring matches), the chain is just along for the ride. the top section is the only thing with real work being done, and only a few links are realistically being pushed by the chainring, but they aren’t really interacting with the cassette. one might even say that the lower run of chain is being “pulled” by the spring of the dangler (though it might be pushing the chain that’s beyond ~8 o’clock on the lower pulley)
are you regretting your decision to stop lurking yet sam? we really have nothing better to do here
The bike. Derailleurs ain’t attached to me.
it’s a lateral chain relocation fork.
Fuck @karl_dandleton is right… the big ring… and ONLY the big ring is the puller. It grabs the chain and hoists it on up.
so then wouldn’t the pusher also be the dropper? because it forces the chain to drop off of the big ring puller?
The pusher has nothing to do with the dropping. That’s gravity and springs and shit
It isn’t holding the chain, so it can’t really drop it. It just shoves it back off the big ring. You know, by giving it a little push.
I can’t tell, is there leg pulling going on here? Do you guys even pull leg over there?
I’m not a new guy and I want to quit after this thread
nahuh. without the pulling, the chain would never make it to the little ring. it has to do a little pulling before gravity kicks in.
and the spring is a part of the pusher/puller, so if the spring did it, the pusher/puller did it.
Hey is this where the brodeal CAAD13s at?
no this is where you argue about what our made up words mean.
There is no pulling, only pushing.
The drop couldn’t happen without the push, but that doesn’t mean that the pushing is doing the dropping.
I just remembered the weird sand-colored CAAD10 with Red going on sale and finally saving up enough to buy, only to have fucking Bicycle Habitat buy them out. Fuckin Charlie.
you’re talking about the opposite push, which is also called a pull.
