{"id":3159,"date":"2010-03-30T21:36:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:54:29","slug":"renovation-of-my-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3159","title":{"rendered":"Renovation of my bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My commuter bike broke down about two weeks ago, so I bought a new chain. But, new chain and worn out sprockets are not a good combination. So after advice from Espen I decided to buy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmrbikes.com\/?Section=products&amp;pageType=item&amp;category=3&amp;CategoryName=Chain%20Devices&amp;itemid=CDSSCK\">Single Speed Conversion Kit<\/a>. In that way I will reduce the need for maintenance and hopefully over time reduced cost as well \ud83d\ude42 Tomorrow I have planned to try it out, hopefully doing 50 kilometers or so. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the kit I had to buy a new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dropout_%28bicycle_part%29\">dropout<\/a> since the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Screw_thread\">internal threads<\/a> in the old one was long gone. I also had to buy a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmcchain.com\/\">KMC<\/a> 8 chain. The old one was a 9&#8217;er, and worn out in just a week because of the old sprockets, but normally you need no more than the kit to convert your bike. <\/p>\n<p>Sexy driveline?<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/03\/singlespeedkit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/03\/singlespeedkit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Notice that I use the tension seeker downwards, not upwards. It is recommended to use it upwards, but since I could not cut the KMC-chain just one link, but needed to cut two it would get to tight. Therefore downwards. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/03\/singlespeedkit2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2010\/03\/singlespeedkit2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My commuter bike broke down about two weeks ago, so I bought a new chain. But, new chain and worn out sprockets are not a good combination. So after advice from Espen I decided to buy the Single Speed Conversion Kit. In that way I will reduce the need for maintenance and hopefully over time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14443,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/14443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}