Originally Posted by
alcjphil
If your bike is that new how is it that you need to change the chain so soon?
it has about 3,000 miles on it. gets filthy/sandy/dusty/grimy after almost every ride so i figured i’d try drip wax. picked up a new chain and the plan was to remove the old one, thoroughly clean the drivetrain, clean the sticky factory grease off the new chain, install, drip wax, let set overnight, ride.
did all the cleaning, went to pop a bunch of links off the new chain and realized i couldn’t. whatever kinds of chain you can hammer a pin out of, this wasn’t one of them. fished the old chain out of the trash, scrubbed it, soaked it, scrubbed some more and put it back on. lame.