Originally Posted by
clintbike
One day I was riding home on the trail and came up on a roadie carrying his chain. I slowed down and asked, "Need a chain tool." The guy responded, "No, I need a missing link. It fell off."
He might have been right, some chains cannot be put back together with a chain tool. Do you really carry a chain tool with you? I was recently thinking about how bad breaking a chain would be.