First snapped chain. Question.

[HLaB]

I was going to make the same hypothesis. I hate shimano pins, I tend to junk the pin and fit a powerlink.

Onlyu thing is, do SRAM powerlinks fit Shimano chains?

Never tried a SRAM one but KMC do (assuming they are the correct speed).

 

[Cubist]

No way of knowing sadly.

I've ordered a new chain anyway now.

Yes, definately worth having a chain tool. I'd have been well and truely buggered without one on sunday, 20 miles from home.

There is if it's a shimano type. The pin looks different. It takes a bit of squinting at a clean chain, but if you can't find an obviously different pin, then it was the joining pin that went.

I once fitted an SLX chain on Cubester's Ragley using the original link pin, then had a change of heart. It took only a few minutes to find the pin and break it out again