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Warren Kinsey
Guest
For those just reading, relates to earlier thread on "Quick Link or Master Link." Just to let you
all know I am not a "chain snob" (or aka Sienfeld, a "chain Nazi"). Why I currently am using Shimano
goes back 3 years to when I was riding a Haluzak Horizon on the MS150 between Houston and Austin.
Going through the park, up some fair size hills, I had a Sachs chain break on me on the up side of a
hill. Not a lot of fun, especially since I was pretty much a novice at riding recumbents at that
time. Turned out the side plate on one link failed. I used my trusty all purpose repair tool and
made the repair and finished the ride. But, as soon as I got home I started searching for a "better"
replacement, and here is how I got to Shimano. Still pretty green in the recumbent world and unaware
of this newsgroup or other sources of info, I stumbled on to Hostel Shoppe. With nothing to go on,
but "price is quality"(yea, I know somewhat dumb), I purchased a Shimano chain.(all 11 feet of it).
I rode with that chain on my Horizon until I sold it and bought a Vision Sabre. I probably only put
2000 miles on the Horizon Shimano chain and it still measured out good when I sold the bike, so that
gave me some info as to the reliability of the Shimano chain.The original Shimano chain on my Sabre
was replaced after 8500 miles. It went up the hills on the MS150 one year and the hills in Oklahoma
on the OKfreewheel for two rides. No failures, so I took this as pretty good info and purchased a
Shimano replacement from Hostel Shoppe.
Now I am wondering , after the good responses on the earlier thread, if we can hear some more
experiences on reliability of these chains, for example KMC, Sram, Shimano, Sachs( I will read on
this but never buy, by the way). Also, those of you, like Cletus, that put your own chains together,
how do you do it? Do you use pins or master links? What kind of problems do you have with stiffness
at the joined link? I have considered putting my own Shimano chains together using their proprietary
pins, but worried about dealing with three "joined" link areas.
Okay, this was long and you had to refill your coffee cups to get through it, but.....thanks for
sticking around and if you can give us some info, it would be appreciated.
Warren
all know I am not a "chain snob" (or aka Sienfeld, a "chain Nazi"). Why I currently am using Shimano
goes back 3 years to when I was riding a Haluzak Horizon on the MS150 between Houston and Austin.
Going through the park, up some fair size hills, I had a Sachs chain break on me on the up side of a
hill. Not a lot of fun, especially since I was pretty much a novice at riding recumbents at that
time. Turned out the side plate on one link failed. I used my trusty all purpose repair tool and
made the repair and finished the ride. But, as soon as I got home I started searching for a "better"
replacement, and here is how I got to Shimano. Still pretty green in the recumbent world and unaware
of this newsgroup or other sources of info, I stumbled on to Hostel Shoppe. With nothing to go on,
but "price is quality"(yea, I know somewhat dumb), I purchased a Shimano chain.(all 11 feet of it).
I rode with that chain on my Horizon until I sold it and bought a Vision Sabre. I probably only put
2000 miles on the Horizon Shimano chain and it still measured out good when I sold the bike, so that
gave me some info as to the reliability of the Shimano chain.The original Shimano chain on my Sabre
was replaced after 8500 miles. It went up the hills on the MS150 one year and the hills in Oklahoma
on the OKfreewheel for two rides. No failures, so I took this as pretty good info and purchased a
Shimano replacement from Hostel Shoppe.
Now I am wondering , after the good responses on the earlier thread, if we can hear some more
experiences on reliability of these chains, for example KMC, Sram, Shimano, Sachs( I will read on
this but never buy, by the way). Also, those of you, like Cletus, that put your own chains together,
how do you do it? Do you use pins or master links? What kind of problems do you have with stiffness
at the joined link? I have considered putting my own Shimano chains together using their proprietary
pins, but worried about dealing with three "joined" link areas.
Okay, this was long and you had to refill your coffee cups to get through it, but.....thanks for
sticking around and if you can give us some info, it would be appreciated.
Warren