Originally Posted by jimmuller

I'm starting wonder about the Tr0LL factor w.r.t. SI. And it isn't even April.



In the old days before chain pins were supposedly peened we just pushed the pins back into place with ye ol' chain tool, and they worked just fine. I figure that if a pin has as much or more friction in the side plate now as it did then then it ought to work. My experience with new 8-spd chains like the SRAM PC870 and KMC (Is that what it is? I fergit 'xactly...) is that they do take a lot more force to push the pin out and a fair amount to push it back in too. So it should work as well or better than in the old days. So I've treated them the way I always did (which cussing at the extra effort it takes). The only time I've had a chain break was when a quick-link came apart.