Tom
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Age : 25
Joined : 29 Oct 2006
Posts : 100
Bike : Trek 8500
|  Subject: Grr... bloody Shimano chains  Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:15 pm | |
| This is why I usually buy SRAM chains:
Shimano tat. Brand new chain, pin just wouldn't budge, even reversing it out the other way. I should have learnt my lesson last time I tried breaking a Shimano chain and it tore off half of the face of one of the outer links.
Not even a cheap chaintool.
Grr! 
Anyone else have these problems?!
Good news is; at least I don't have to decide whether or not to cycle hungover this afternoon. I can't! 
Tom |
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Chris King Racer 700
Joined : 26 Oct 2006
Posts : 774
Bike : BMX Aero Burner, CW handlebars, 2 finger brakes, layback seat post.
| | Subject: Re: Grr... bloody Shimano chains Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:45 pm | |
| Never had that problem. Looks like 'operator error' to me.
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Craig
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Joined : 30 Oct 2006
Posts : 190
| | Subject: Re: Grr... bloody Shimano chains Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:22 am | |
| Me neither.
I'll use the pin once and if I have to remove then refit the chain I use a power link. |
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Little Gav
XTR
Joined : 03 Nov 2006
Posts : 267
Bike : Orange P7
| | Subject: Re: Grr... bloody Shimano chains Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:53 pm | |
| Yep power links are the way forward.
Well worth a quid or two.
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Tom
XT
Age : 25
Joined : 29 Oct 2006
Posts : 100
Bike : Trek 8500
| | Subject: Re: Grr... bloody Shimano chains Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:22 pm | |
| Wierdly enough, I tried it again with a different chain tool (the one on a multitool) and the pin slide out like shit off a shovel.
Wondering if maybe the end of the Park tool had 'mushroomed'.
What's that? . . . Did I hear someone mention bad workmen blaming their tools? . . . 
Tom |
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