I usually disable embedding on my videos; forgot to set it otherwise for this one.

-Kurt

Ahh, sorry i'm computer dumb guess i miss interpeted

Agreed. However, they were in a situation that when they had to stop fast & hard, they couldn't. I pulled out of a little used roadway on a green light. It was night. I only saw them because I was actively looking for them when I saw the leader look over his shoulder behind him. Otherwise, I'd would have T-boned the entire pack.

you're probably more likely to snap a brake cable than a chain

Really... snapped three chains in the last five years, never in LIFE snapped a cable.

really, I've snapped several brake cables, and never a chain

Yeah, but you have two brake cables

I've snapped several master links, does that count?

What ya don't think that it'd be possible for two brake cables from the same batch to fail at the same time?

you actually use the master links?



Maybe you should sue SRAM

not necessarily

They were SRAM's.

Surefire method to snap a chain: Reinstall the existing pin of a 7-speed chain into a link.

A method perfected by two-cent, LBS summer help.

-Kurt

master links are fine to use... just not reuse.

the only i ever snapped was a 1/32 kmc with a re-used master. snapped it at 20~ km/h while standing on the pedals. wound up breaking two ribs and scattering 8 felafel sandwiches out of my bag all over 12th avenue.

ouch.

what's the point of having a master link if it's not reusable?

what is this suppose to mean? sounds like you're saying the whole chain can't be reused once it is opened

I think he means popping a pin out of a link, and then pushing the same pin back in - The only time I've ever had troubles with a chain was when I attempted to do this. On mine, the pin fell out after about five miles.

only a novice takes the pin entirely out of the link; and if you don't take the pin entirely out of the link, you are, by definition, reusing it.

One of the times that I "popped" a master link that's pretty much what happened to me. I was on 49th St. N. going to Tampa and was standing on the pedals going through the Ulmerton Rd. 49th St. intersection and about a 1/4 of the way or so into the intersection it pops. Laying my chain out nicely and of course leaving me without a drivetrain. Fortunately I'd built up enough speed that I was able to coast through the intersection and also fortunately for me I did not end up "eating" the pavement.

I just coasted through cut through the parking lot of the gas station to my right, dismounted crossed the street at the crosswalk. Waited for the light to go red so I could run out and get my chain and pulled out an extra link that I carried for such emergencies.

It pays to carry spares of things that you would think that ya shouldn't need to carry cause there will come a day when ya will need it. I carry a spare tube, a patch kit, plastic tire irons, several dollars for bus fare or to use as a boot if I have a big hole enough hole in the tire, two different multi-tools, first aid kit, CO2, pressure gauge. Just to name some of the things. Everything except the first aid kit and one multi-tool is in my saddle bag. The first aid kit and other multi-tool is in my pannier bag.

Last summer while a friend and I were out riding it paid off that one of the multi-tools that I carry has a chain break on it. We encountered a father/daughter team that were out riding and she'd hit a bump and her chain came off the gears and got wedged between the cogs and her frame. He was trying to pull it out and not having much luck, I was able to "break" the chain and get it out, and re-thread it where it should be.

don't forget your space blanket and emergency rations!

both of you are forgetting the two absolutely most crucial pieces of emergency gear!

1. $100 cash
2. cell phone

Does carrying packages of GU in my jersey pocket count as emergency rations? Actually a space blanket wouldn't really be a bad addition to the first aid kit.

I carry a PDA/cell phone in a pouch on my CamelBak. And besides the $5 or $6 in my saddle bag I also carry a $20 in my purse which is "buried" inside my backpack along with my laptop, maps, Florida Statutes, and other misc. "junk."

better to have two brakes instead of just one