Agree with Patrick M., probably an installation issue. Sheldon Brown says somewhere that modern 8/9/10 speed chains are actually stronger than single speed chains, due to all the engineering that has to go into them to make them strong enough to handle shifts under load.
That assumes 1/8th inch chains are not subject to modern engineering. May be right for some makes, but certainly not all. As for the original post question, I am of the fewer gears the better school. On Sunday, July 13, 2014 12:42:30 PM UTC-5, Eric Daume wrote: > > Agree with Patrick M., probably an installation issue. Sheldon Brown says > somewhere that modern 8/9/10 speed chains are actually stronger than single > speed chains, due to all the engineering that has to go into them to make > them strong enough to handle shifts under load. > > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Tour winners use chains even thinner. Usually chains break because of a >> connection error. Avoid those and wholly unforeseeable manufacturing errors >> and you should be fine. Me, I no longer "break" chains; I always use >> masterlinks. >> >> Glad it wasn't worse. >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Deacon Patrick <lamon...@mac.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> So, this happened: >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/32311885@N07/14642857154/ >>> Caption and details: Broke my chain (oh! THAT’s what that popping was >>> trying to tell me!) and discovered how littel Entriders like their roots >>> colliding with asphault, even at slow speeds when cranking up a hill. >>> >>> Could have been a LOT worse. I’m surprised it wasn’t, actually. >>> >>> Should I shift to 1/8 chain on the QB? How common is it to bust a chain >>> cranking up a hill? Is that something solved by shifting to 1/8 chain (this >>> was an 8 or 9 speed chain, and I have extra links, so can fix it short >>> term). White Industries says the Dos Eno works with 1/8 chain so long as >>> the chain line is good (I presume it is with Grant’s designing). >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> With abandon, >>> Patrick >>> >>> *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org <http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org>* >>> *www.OurHolyConception.org <http://www.OurHolyConception.org>* >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >>> <javascript:>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. >> By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. >> Other professional writing services. >> http://www.resumespecialties.com/ >> Patrick Moore >> Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis >> >> ************************************* >> * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to >> never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from >> it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* >> * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to >> look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind >> it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into >> somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your >> daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is >> all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was >> any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, >> because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where >> in your time and your body can they be?* >> * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. >> "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where >> Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of >> you can find it?” -- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood * >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
