Originally Posted by
Jiggle
I bought three brand new 11spd missing links and I could not close them with muscle strength. I am not a weakling either. They still snap into place after the mod so I should be good.
I haven't used the 11-speed version yet. Could be they are much tougher to snap together than the earlier ones. I can't imagine that they would take so much force to snap together that you couldn't do it by stepping on the cranks with the back brake locked.
Still I wouldn't modify them. Seems like playing with fire to me.