I was meant to go out on Sunday for my first long ride in ages, so after a long day visiting Little Wheezy at uni on Saturday, I finally got around to trying to fit my new chainrings. Unfortunately the shimano ones I bought ended up being 11 speed and I couldn’t get 10 speed at all, but I eventually sourced some FSA pattern ones. So an easy 30 minutes swapping them over; not!
Got them on and they just wouldn’t work, with the chain fouling up all the time. I spent an hour dissasembling and then reassembling. Still wouldn’t work. As I packed the bike away I thought I’d look at the ones I had taken off, and they were identical; and then the penny dropped. I had put the large chainring on the wrong way round! 
. Bearing in mind I have an engineering degree and I have a very practical, hands on job, my stupidity was quite staggering in that I didn’t realise before. Anyway, all on correctly now, although black chainrings on a silver crank will have the purists spitting feathers.
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Silver crank on black chainrings is what all the cool kids are rocking 
is it shifting ok with the old chain?
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bet you’re glad you didn’t take it to the LBS, would have been told “better leave it to the experts”
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What an absolute dog of a job. Theres always enough time between doing it that I forget which way to wrap and how to get round the shifters.
Gel pads make it lovely and plush, hoping it helps with the numbness I get in my little fingers when riding.
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Yes, the chain was very new and only had a few weeks’ wear on it. Have to say, that looks very smart!
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