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Old 05-30-20 | 06:37 AM
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sch
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From: Mountain Brook. AL
Most of the comments have been about quicklinks, where the OP asked about chain. Dunnoh about Maribels finding the 11spd are better
(metallurgically?) than 10 spd, but personally I have found that 10 spd chains work fine on 11 spd cassettes. This has been the case with
3 different bikes using KMC, SRAM and Shimano chains. Although I have a couple of 11 spd chains, 15yrs ago I found a surplus store selling
10spd KMC chains for $12 each so bought ~8 chains and perforce had to use them up. At 3-4k miles per chain that has taken awhile
hence my experience with use on 11spd cassettes. Also had a few Shimano and SRAM 10spds as well.

This is all on singletons, but in our ~25k mile tandeming years a chain would last maybe 1500-2k miles for a derailler chain and 6-9k miles on the
non-derailler chain.

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