So, I got some luck tonight. I put on my single cog on the rear of my 26" hardtail along with my 32T chainring. Well, I got a brand new single speed chain. This chain seemed to require a tensioner. So I put the tensioner on that came with my kit. Well, it skipped about 10 times in the driveway alone, so I knew I had to do something. The tension of the tensioner itself was pretty damn good. I think it was the fact that I'm using a single speed chain, which likes deep toothed cogs, with a tensioner that has small flat teeth on its plastic cog. I could easily see that's what the issue was.

So what I did was is I put the chain on the chainring, but NOT on the rear cog... then I put the chain back together. When I pushed the chain by hand onto the gear. It felt really tight at first, but it felt do-able, so I put a little more pressure on it and BAM... I popped the chain on the rear cog. Keep in mind, I have a typical hardtail diamondback that does not have horizontal dropouts, so this was pretty exciting.

But this got me thinking... what if my chain stretches a bit? After all, it's new. It could stretch a bit, right? Also, what do you guys think of half link chains? I don't mean chains with a half link... but chains made ENTIRELY out of half links. My buddy speaks highly of them, but he's the only one I heard ANYTHING about with half link chains. He's suggesting to me I get a half link chain and that way if my chain stretches to the point where it skips off the cog, that's a sign to me that I can remove a half link on the chain. After all, if there's enough play for it to skip, there's enough play for 1 half link to be removed.

Anyway, any thoughts on this?

P.S. - So far I friggen love SS'ing! There's something about hopping a curb silently and problem-free that puts a smile on my face.

EDIT - Also I hear a LOT about the Rennen Chain Tensioner... but it has a roller... is a roller not... noisy? I just don't see how it would be completely silent...