7/8 Speed Chains

[Landslide]

Depends how fast you're riding. If you pedal fast enough the chain moves too quickly for water to stick to it.

 

[Pottsy]

Depends how fast you're riding. If you pedal fast enough the chain moves too quickly for water to stick to it.

But at that sort of speed your sunglasses would melt onto your face and you'd actually arrive having aged more slowly than everyone else around you, which is nice as you'd have more time not to oil your chain.

 

[Amanda P]

This raises the question of what you'd do with the time you saved by not oiling it?

Things to do while not oiling your chain:

 

[Pottsy]

Post in pointless CycleChat threads?

 

[Mr Pig]

Post in pointless CycleChat threads?

Well, it was a very good thread until we started on it!

 

[jpembroke]

From this day forth the 8th March should become known as National Succinct Thread Day and this thread (or the first 4 posts anyway) will be held up as a shining example of what can be achieved in an internet forum using only a few carefully chosen words.

And we were here when it all began.

man, I think I've got something in my eye.

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

But at that sort of speed your sunglasses would melt onto your face and you'd actually arrive having aged more slowly than everyone else around you, which is nice as you'd have more time not to oil your chain.

and your mass and your chain's mass would increase so it would start pulling stuff onto itself due to its higher gravity. Buses, stuff like that.

 

[Pottsy]

Excellent, from 7 or 8 speed chains to quantum physics.

 

[hobo]

Im sure a good education would be to tell all how chains actually wear, its not how you think!

 

[Mr Pig]

Im sure a good education would be to tell all how chains actually wear, its not how you think!

Do tell?

 

[Amanda P]

How do you think I think chains wear? I think I probably don't think chains wear the way you think I think they do.

But until you tell us how you think they wear, and and how you think I think they wear, neither of us will know which of us is right.

Or about what.

I think.



Minister.

 

[e-rider]

Shimano chains - cost fortune, last 1 minute - alt. recommendations?

KMC?

Wippermann?

SRAM?

Compatible with Shim. cassette/gears?

 

[jpembroke]

I've given up on SRAM chains; they stretch too quickly in my experience. I'm now a Wipperman convert although I've heard very good things about KMC chains too so might be tempted to give one a go next time I need a new chain..

 

[Mr Pig]

I don't know. I put a KMC chain on my bike last year, the first one I'd used, and I don't think it lasted any longer than a SRAM one. Maybe I was hard on that particular chain, I'm going to keep using them for a while anyway.

They are stronger though. Heck of a lot harder to punch a pin out of a KMC chain than it is on a Shimano one.

Is chain wear caused by wuffle dust? If so then you're right, I wouldn't have thought that.