Originally Posted by
ilovecycling
While this is solid advice from a safety perspective, at $6 from your LBS the Powerlock is not exactly inexpensive. For those of us that like to take the chain off completely to clean it thoroughly, $6 added to the already expensive chain degreaser starts to add up quickly.
IF you had thoroughly read my post, I recommended getting a link that is meant to be taken on off more than once if you need to do so. Six dollars is a pretty paltry amount of money to pay when you consider the alternative should the link fail due to going against factory installation instructions. The anecdotal evidence of ten or twelve folks on the internet notwithstanding, I stand by my recommendation and the recommendation of the company that makes the chain.
As for taking off a chain to clean it, don't get me started...
