Grr... bloody Shimano chains
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Grr... bloody Shimano chains
Tom 2007-08-27, 10:15
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
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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Re: Grr... bloody Shimano chains
N@th 2007-08-27, 13:45
Never had that problem. Looks like 'operator error' to me.
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Re: Grr... bloody Shimano chains
Craig 2007-08-28, 03:22
Me neither.
I'll use the pin once and if I have to remove then refit the chain I use a power link.
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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Re: Grr... bloody Shimano chains
Little Gav 2007-08-28, 08:53
Yep power links are the way forward.
Well worth a quid or two.
Well worth a quid or two.
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Re: Grr... bloody Shimano chains
Tom 2007-08-28, 14:22
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
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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