Originally Posted by
cavernmech
With the amount of broken *****mano chains I have seen at the races, I will never put one on my bike again. SRAM, KMC and Wipperman all use master links also. I prefer the SRAM.
I'm willing to bet (once, at least) that most of those broken chains are due to people glazing over the instructions, not using the replacement pins properly and basically just ****ing up their own chains. As for factory installed chains, well if that's the case then Shimano really has no excuse.
Edit: add to my speculation, how many of those chains previously had a pin pushed out/back in w/ no replacement?
*shrugs*