J-Dro
Well-Known Member
Lots of people out there swear by their SRAM chains so I'm obviously doing something wrong...
After a bad experience with a Sachs chain a few years ago, I stuck with Shimano chains exclusively since then. But recently, I caught a sale on the SRAM 971 chain. I install it... works great for 4 rides... then at the tail end of a mooch ride, I'm flying down the white trail heading back to Tranquility Farm and I try to spin and get over some obstacle and notice that my chain is broke. I wasn't shifting or pedaling at the time it broke. Turns out the power link is missing. Hmm, thats weird. I figure if I had installed it incorrectly, it would have fallen off sometime in the previous 60 miles that I rode the chain. OK whatever. So I buy a replacement power link and am extra careful to install it, tugging it tightly to make sure this baby ain't gonna fall off. Next ride is at the mooch again.... Same thing happens... On an extended downhill, I go to pedal only to see my chain hanging with the link missing.
The only way I can see this happening is if I somehow pinch the chain, allowing the power link to release. Since I've never seen this happen to anyone else, I have to assume that I'm doing something stupid.:hmmm:
Any ideas?
After a bad experience with a Sachs chain a few years ago, I stuck with Shimano chains exclusively since then. But recently, I caught a sale on the SRAM 971 chain. I install it... works great for 4 rides... then at the tail end of a mooch ride, I'm flying down the white trail heading back to Tranquility Farm and I try to spin and get over some obstacle and notice that my chain is broke. I wasn't shifting or pedaling at the time it broke. Turns out the power link is missing. Hmm, thats weird. I figure if I had installed it incorrectly, it would have fallen off sometime in the previous 60 miles that I rode the chain. OK whatever. So I buy a replacement power link and am extra careful to install it, tugging it tightly to make sure this baby ain't gonna fall off. Next ride is at the mooch again.... Same thing happens... On an extended downhill, I go to pedal only to see my chain hanging with the link missing.
The only way I can see this happening is if I somehow pinch the chain, allowing the power link to release. Since I've never seen this happen to anyone else, I have to assume that I'm doing something stupid.:hmmm:
Any ideas?