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Should/could I have used less links in new chain?

rat_race · 2012-07-04 20:57:20

Hi... My OEM chain had 106 links, and my new DID x-ring had 110 (including the rivet link), so I hacked 4 off, and put it on, along with new sprockets. BUT, at the right tension, the wear/wheel alignment indicator/notch (whatever it's called) is already past halfway to the back. This means, as my chain wears, I am likely…

04-07-2012 8:57pm

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rat_race

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Hi...

My OEM chain had 106 links, and my new DID x-ring had 110 (including the rivet link), so I hacked 4 off, and put it on, along with new sprockets.

BUT, at the right tension, the wear/wheel alignment indicator/notch (whatever it's called) is already past halfway to the back. This means, as my chain wears, I am likely to run out of tighening space and be unable to tighten it anymore even though the chain is fine. I could have pushed the wheel much farther forward, but the chain would obviously be too loose.

Should/could I have taken more links out? I really think I could have done with 102...but it just seems wrong to do.

Just curious for next time really...Not a hope I am taking it off and putting it back on again ... No idea if my rivets are rivetted "correctly" either. Scary stuff for a novice ...

Thanks!

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