Yea, I read that before posting. It appears I'm going with SRAM chain, instead of cheap KMC.. But we might see about that, if I can find a cheap X9 from KMC then I"m going with that...

I took a small hill with my old chain, in 1st 3rd, and rear last or something like that. From a complete stop. I heard some tearing and stretching, or something that didn't sound nice. So I presume strength of the chain is all relative. I kind of want the strongest.