Re: [CR]Today's Trivia: block chain weight

(Example: Racing:Jacques Boyer)

From: "Pete Geurds" <raleighpro@dejazzd.com>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <426B801A.2060700@erols.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Today's Trivia: block chain weight
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 07:58:12 -0400
reply-type=response

From: "HM & SS Sachs" <sachs@erols.com> To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>; "ternst" <
> As part of getting it ready for Cirque, this morning I installed a NOS
> Wipperman chain on the '38 Paramount, replacing the "modern" inch-pitch
> roller chain (Thank you again, Ted ERnst, for digging deeply into your
> reserves for the chain!).
>
> The roller chain looked bulkier as I was matching lengths, so I weighed
> them. The roller chain is 28% heavier. For the length I needed, the
> roller was 445 gm, almost a pound, and the block chain was 3.5 oz (98 gm)
> lighter.
>

Harvey, Is inch pitch "skip link" chain the same as the roller chain you refer to? Just got introduced to this stuff through an off topic very old bike I picked up recently.

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa