Thread: Combining Two Types of Bicycle Chain
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Old 05-22-12 | 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by sillygolem
I just bought some new KMC 8 speed chain for my five speed freewheeled touring bike, but it's about 5 links too short. I've got some Taya 6 speed chain sitting that I could add to make up the length. Can I combine the two, or do I need to run all the same chain?
Haven't done it with those particular chains, but I've done the process before it works about 50% of the time for me, really just depends on the pin length to chain link width sizes...
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