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Community => Non-Thorn Related => Topic started by: Danneaux on February 21, 2013, 01:29:01 AM

Title: Interesting article on chain wear and tools for measuring same
Post by: Danneaux on February 21, 2013, 01:29:01 AM

Hi All!

Pardo.net (one of my favorite "Fail" sites for analyzing bicycle component failures) has a very interesting section on chain wear and problems with wear-gauges: http://pardo.net/bike/pic/fail-004/000.html#commercial-wear-measuring-tools

There's some thoughtful and insightful observations that just may surprise you.

Best,

Dan. (...who thinks we may all be links in a chain of some sort or other)

Title: Re: Interesting article on chain wear and tools for measuring same
Post by: Andybg on February 21, 2013, 09:39:59 AM

Well found Dan. It shows the weakness of what you would consider a perfectly good mesuring tool.

Title: Re: Interesting article on chain wear and tools for measuring same
Post by: Andre Jute on February 21, 2013, 09:58:50 AM

The one good tool, from Shimano, is €65 from CRC...

Title: Re: Interesting article on chain wear and tools for measuring same
Post by: Andybg on February 21, 2013, 10:56:19 AM

Or you could just replace your chain every 5000km like me and never bother checking for wear.

Andy

Title: Re: Interesting article on chain wear and tools for measuring same
Post by: Andre Jute on February 21, 2013, 11:54:23 AM

Quote from: Andybg on February 21, 2013, 10:56:19 AM

Or you could just replace your chain every 5000km like me and never bother checking for wear.
Andy

I've never in my life made 5000km on one chain. Nearest was 4605km, by dint of regular careful measurement.

Andre Jute