Broken Chain
 

[Closed] Broken Chain

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Bit of a wierd one.

I have a 10 speed Sram set up. 1031 chain.

New 2 months ago, ridden maybe 300 miles. Been lubed regularly.

Today it broke, no problem I'll put on a new link. Did that, then 10 miles later it breaks again.

Then I noticed that about 7-8 of the links have breaks in them. Cracks that go the full width of the outer chain segment (the fig 8 piece). Just waiting to fail completely. So it would now easily break in 7-8 places. Great. Took it to the shop at Whinlatter and mechanic said send it back to shop I purchased it from.

Anyone else had a similar experience? Seems a bit odd to me to be broken in so many places.


 
Posted : 26/06/2011 9:58 pm
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Could just be a wrong 'un. It happens. Do you shift under load?


 
Posted : 26/06/2011 10:06 pm
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Yeah, I'll send it back. Cheers.

I do shift under "gentle" load sometimes, but never had any problems like this before.


 
Posted : 26/06/2011 10:15 pm
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I had similar on a SRAM chain - it was 9-speed and a few years ago. If you ride a Commencal though, and it's just your chain snapping, you're doing quite well...


 
Posted : 26/06/2011 10:15 pm