ONe thing I find useful about the basic model SRAM chains is that they are extremely forgiving of wear on cogs; if you are trying to milk another 1000k out of that nice but worn Oro freewheel, between a SRAM PC48, a Regina Oro, or a Shimano Hyperglide chain, the Shimano and Regina new chains will more than likely skip, the SRAM won't. David Feldman
> 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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