Re: [CR]New chains for classic bikes

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:07:26 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jeff Widman" <coinkidd@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]New chains for classic bikes
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <28.1150f7f2.27c09812@aol.com>


Loose Screws is going out of business, and they have these chains for 9.95 - 10%. I've never been a customer (till tommarow,) but thought that people
might want to stock up.
Jeff


--- Gjvinbikes@aol.com wrote:


> In a message dated 2/17/01 10:00:16 AM Eastern
> Standard Time, moos@penn.com
> writes:
>
>
> > Also, are any of the currently sold SRAM chains a
> reasonable substitute
> > for an old SedisSport on the preindex stuff?
> >
>
> As I reported recently in a post to rec.bikes.tech,
> I asked the SRAM tech rep
> this question last time he was by the Cycle Center
> shop I worked at. He told
> me that SRAM had no stock of nor any way to make any
> more of the older,
> laterally stiffer Sachs and Sedis chains. He
> suggested that the 9-speed
> SACHS chains would be better for older
> friction-shifting bikes than the
> 8-speed versions, since the 9-speed chains were
> designed to be a bit stiffer
> laterally.
>
> I will note, in addition to the above, that he
> didn't really seem to care
> about bikes with pre-STI/Ergo shifting systems at
> all.
>
> Personally, I use Sachs PC-48's for everything
> except the fixed gear bikes
> and on them I run 1/8" BMX chains. The Sachs
> masterlinks seem to work quite
> well, better than those wretched Shimano one-use
> pins anyway. I was stunned
> and disappointed (once again) when the Cycle Center
> decided to from now on
> offer ONLY Shimano chains - probably because of
> issues concerned with
> generating maximum revenues. The only chain I have
> EVER had fail, in all my
> decades of cycling, was a Shimano 8-speed chain that
> broke due to rivit
> failure while I was climbing.
>
> Glenn Jordan - Durham, NC
>
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