Jonathing
Über Member
- Location
- Birmingham
I give up, I'm on the verge of selling my bikes, getting a car and getting fat.
I took the chain off of my fixed in order to clean it last night. I must have not got the link in the chain tool properly as I ended up with a mashed up mess where the link and back plate should have been. The chain tool was also bent and incapable of fitting the chain back in. I bought a SRAM singlespeed chain and fitted that with the powerlink connector with which it came supplied and all seemed fine until I rode the bike around the block to check this. Accelerating away from the roundabout the chain snapped, shredded a couple of links and I nearly went under the wheels of a lorry due to the sudden loss of power and balance. This morning I bought a Diamondback chain with a drive pin and a new chain tool. I cut the chain to length, and went to join the chain together only to find that the drive pin is too long to fit into the chain tool, I have tried hammering the pin further into the chain, I have tried squeezing the links to ease the pin in further. Nothing works. There is no way of aligning the tool and the chain without the tool screwed together and I can't do that as the pin is too long. So I give up. Hundreds of pounds down the drain and hours and days wasted on bikes which have defeated me with a single chain. How the hell am I supposed to ride a bike if there's no way to put a chain on it?
I took the chain off of my fixed in order to clean it last night. I must have not got the link in the chain tool properly as I ended up with a mashed up mess where the link and back plate should have been. The chain tool was also bent and incapable of fitting the chain back in. I bought a SRAM singlespeed chain and fitted that with the powerlink connector with which it came supplied and all seemed fine until I rode the bike around the block to check this. Accelerating away from the roundabout the chain snapped, shredded a couple of links and I nearly went under the wheels of a lorry due to the sudden loss of power and balance. This morning I bought a Diamondback chain with a drive pin and a new chain tool. I cut the chain to length, and went to join the chain together only to find that the drive pin is too long to fit into the chain tool, I have tried hammering the pin further into the chain, I have tried squeezing the links to ease the pin in further. Nothing works. There is no way of aligning the tool and the chain without the tool screwed together and I can't do that as the pin is too long. So I give up. Hundreds of pounds down the drain and hours and days wasted on bikes which have defeated me with a single chain. How the hell am I supposed to ride a bike if there's no way to put a chain on it?
