Originally Posted by
ThermionicScott
The PC-1 ought to be usable with 4 (or less) speed freewheels, it's constructed like SRAM's other multi speed chains, just wider. Flush rivets, so you've gotta use the special link!
No more pushing the pin back in or you're tempting fate.
Man, this got my attention. I nearly always
don't use the master link for purely aesthetic reasons; it didn't occur to me that there may be a mechanical reason for them beyond the "quicker, easier" aspect of their use. I've never experienced chain failure* (luck? bike+rider
<170lbs? something else?) but I'll be rethinking my approach now.
*
But I fully expect it next ride due to my typing that.
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Last edited by Fahrenheit531; 06-01-18 at 05:19 PM.