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Originally Posted by
reddog3
If you were happy with the shifting performance with the old chain, cut the new one to the same length. QUOTE]
Not the same length, the same number of links. The old chain has stretched.
Having been around the chain maufacturing industry most of my working life (I'm only 67), when discussing chain length it was always number of links, never a linear measurement. Of course we had to be talking the same pitch. Doesn't matter whether of not it wasn't bike chain. Chain is chain. I thought this was common knowledge. Speaking of stretch- It's unlikely you'd run a chain of say, 114 links, and the stretch would be so bad that it would equal 115 links of new chain. Count the links.