New Chain - Charge Plug

daragh_

Anyone recommend a new chain for my Plug? I've gone through 3 (Charge Masher) since January. A link snapped on my current chain this morning and scared the bejaysus out of me.

Should I expect that kind of attrition rate for chains? I'm just doing a basic commute with it - Dun Laoghaire to town and back

Morgan

If you're breaking chains that much there's definitely something wrong. Especially on a fixed wheel / singlespeed since it's often botched gear changes that break chains.

Are you sure the chain is joined properly when fitted? Bear in mind, not all chain tools can be used with 1/8" chains.

daragh_

Morgan wrote: »

If you're breaking chains that much there's definitely something wrong. Especially on a fixed wheel / singlespeed since it's often botched gear changes that break chains.

Are you sure the chain is joined properly when fitted? Bear in mind, not all chain tools can be used with 1/8" chains.

I'm doing it myself so it's probable that I'm fecking it up somewhere along the line. Just using a standard chain tool and it seemed OK. Spent a long time checking it was on properly the first time I did it.

dub_skav

I have a charge plug over a year and am still on the original chain. I have gotten lazy recently but was commuting on it every day for about 10 months

TinyExplosions

You'll get a new chain for a tenner in Cultured above Eamonn Dorans -should last ye a while at least!

Greyspoke

Are you actually using a 1/8" as a lot of ss/fixies run on standard 3/32" which wouldn't be as strong. 1/8" chains are generally pretty tough. I got home from a spin recently to find the side plate of a connecting link had snapped in the middlle but the chain had fortunately held together well enough that I hadn't even noticed. Funnily, it was ride on which I'd turned back early because the bearings in the back wheel sounded like they were breaking up so after being initially annoyed at having to abandon the spin it perhaps turned out to be one of those disguised blessings when I discovered the state of the chain!
How exactly are your chains breaking? Is it the connecting link/or where you're rejoining it that it's going?

daragh_

Greyspoke wrote: »

Are you actually using a 1/8".....
How exactly are your chains breaking? Is it the connecting link/or where you're rejoining it that it's going?

Yep, it's a Charge Masher 1/8" Half Link.

To clarify it didn't completely snap. One side of a connecting plate came loose or broke off and got jammed somewhere. Wasn't the connecting link though.

Previous chains didn't snap, they got really loose and I just replaced them (rather than figuring out how to fix them - lazy git that I am).

Morgan

daragh_ wrote: »

Previous chains didn't snap, they got really loose and I just replaced them (rather than figuring out how to fix them - lazy git that I am).

Could you not just have slid your rear wheel back a bit?

daragh_

Morgan wrote: »

Could you not just have slid your rear wheel back a bit?

Yep - that would have been the sensible thing to do. I'm not great at the bleeding obvious