Ever since I've owned my Ram I've had a unique, loud clunking or crunching sound coming from the drive train, especially when I started from a standing stop or occasionally when hammering up an incline. I used to associate it with the "ghost shifting" phenomenon as posters here referred to certain chain and cassette indexed shift combinations. But this loud "clunking" sound never resulted in an unwanted change in gears; it just sounded like something that shouldn't be happening.
Well, this has gone on intermittently since about 2004. Yesterday, however, the chain broke. Broke completely in half, both sides after starting from a standing stop again. Fortunately, I was carrying a spare SRAM Powerlink and the event took place while crossing an intersection near a strip mall that had a bike shop. I borrowed their chain tool to drive out the pins of the broken link and installed the Powerlink and took it easy on the way home, worried that it might happen again. My question is: What the heck gives?? The chain is a SRAM 971 which is designated as the proper chain by the manufacturer for 9-speed cassettes. The cassette is a 9-speed Shimano hyperglide, and the crank/chainrings are Velo Orange Cru. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/8c73700e-ebd9-40b5-94aa-e969109dae8fn%40googlegroups.com.
