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Alright bike dudes need some advice on this before I go into my LBS blind.
The bike: My beloved winter beater / mail getter, a Diamondback hard-tail with the standard low end (GENERIC) triple up front, shimano tourney in the back. So your standard poopbike but it gets me around the neighborhood when I don't want to ride my roadie.
Problem: Bit it on some ice and bent in the teeth of the largest cog of the front chainring. About 4 are bent inwards and it looks like the chain is a bent too. The bike rides but I'm seeing a bit of slipping and visually the thing is clearly bent.
Solutions?: Ideally I'll just bent the teeth back using needle nosed pliers and replace the sideways bent chain but....
If I can't I want to know what is the feasibility of getting a large chainring that will fit a no-name front crankset? Off the top of my head the big ring is a 46? maybe 48?
Last alternative is buying a new crankset for a shimano tourney on ebay and installing it. But considering this bike is really worth about 100-150 I'd rather keep the price low on this one...
