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