types of chain?
06-09-03 | 07:37 PM
#2
feros ferio
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;
Get a (widely-available) SRAM PC-58.
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
06-10-03 | 06:30 AM
#5
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Joined: Apr 2002
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From: mass
After pulling 9 power links apart on two different bikes over the past two years there's no more SRAM chains on my bikes. I ride a heavily loaded bike to work each day and my route is quite hilly, there is one hill that is very steep and it's the one I've pulled the links apart on every time. If you look at the link halves you will see that the hole is elongated in order to assemble the link, that is where they rip apart, every time the chain has failed, (all 9 times) the power link halves were ripped at the hole. I am now riding shimano CN-7701 chains on all my bikes, I throw them away at 5000 miles and have had no more breakage. I use my bikes for utility purposes and just don't have the time to make repairs on the side of the road. I ride roughly 13,000 miles a year, over the years I have tried many different chains, I do like the concept of the SRAM chains but I can't afford the failures, They tend to be slightly wider also and they don't shift as well as the shimano on the D.A. drive trane, they also tend to make more noise.
