How tight would you say you should keep your chain? How much give should there be in the pedals, do you think?

no give in the pedals, but it shouldn't be so tight you hear it crunching as it goes around

i didnt think it should be that tight, i heard it is better to have a slightly loose chain than one which is too tight.

I personally think it should have slight give in it, I put my wheels back in every time I go to the track ( a lot ) and after after I've put my back wheel in I always lift the wheel off the ground and push on the pedals and let the wheel spin......to check to see how long it spins / resistance, if the chain is tight, it won't spin as long due to the fact that most chainrings aren't exactly circular, so you get "tight spots" ( I run dura ace chainring and sprocket by the way)....so a tight chain will most likely have more friction and less power transfer and will stress your components......cue everybody else telling me how perfectly circular their rings are!

sorry lpg, i thought your post said you should here it crunching.

My chainring is perfectly circular.

My chainring is not perfectly circular. I am sad.

What's a chainring?

who are you?

i use shimano bio pace rings, dead cheap...........bastard to get chain tension tho.......

Try the q rings.. "momentum carries leg through dead spot"..

na, that's just fuckin' weird

eggrings:
http://www.highpath.co.uk/cycles/eggs/01.html

gah!
ooooh, hang on a second-- custom chainrings...

And they're WELSH! :)

Ahem...

http://rotorcranksusa.com/i1-rs4x.shtml

Glad to see even our colonial cousins have a healthy concern.

Apart from giving us a word for breaking a deal, what have they done?

Word for breaking a deal? Wtf is this - thesaurus night or something??

I just have a 'slight' concern nowadays about buying stuff from overseas when there's a local option.

You said it.

maybe a 1/2 cm of travel or less once tightened you should be able to move it up and down just a tiny teeny bit

i had those on a mid 90's shogun mtb

I had them on my first race bike..

What's a bike?