sram quick links...

[FOXROX]

SUCK! i got a brand new 991 chain and i put it on the next day the link broke... twisted the chain all up... got a new chain the next day... link snaps.. today i put a link on and you guessed it. snap!!!! ugh i have never had a problem with these things! it pisses me off! anyone else have this problem>

[davep]

I stopped buying sedis chains a few years after SRAM bought them...to many painful crashes from broken chains.

Get a wipperman quick link (put it on any chain you like), they are pretty bomb proof.


I should add, everyone seems to have a chain that they have broken one too many times and sworn off, while the majority have success with the same brands.....I just have never seen a link plate torn in half...and that is what I did to my last sram. In general, the 'joining' is going to be the weak link.

I have generally heard good things about the new shimano xtr/durace level chain...but they have no quick link (but are cheap). I have been on wippermans for the last 5 years or so and have been VERY impressed with durability (wear and 'stretching') and have yet to have a single issue (they come with a quick link but are usually a bit more $$). Have started to hear good things about KMC as well (Z9000 IIRC)...

[dexterq20]

Been using Sram power links for almost 5 years now, never had an issue. Worked at a shop for four years that sold primarily Sram chains, never had a customer break one either.

[DirtyMike]

I have broke chains before, never have I broken a powerlink, EVER, in fact the one I have now has been of at least half a dozen chains.....I swap chains alot.....


Its weird your having issues with the quick link, are you using a tool of somekind to install it? I just cant imagine breaking three in a row, ar eyou sure your chain is long enough for your ride? Maybe your a link too short, and your slamming teh chain just a bit as you go through your travel. My brother was doing that on his Faith for awhile.


On a side note, the Sram powerlinks will work for any 9/8 speed chain, given you get a nine for a nie, eight for an eight....But ten speed will not work with other chains for that one you need a wipperman. Like DaveP said though, if your not liking teh sram version, get the wipperman, there about ten bucks, and never have I broken one of those either, nor ever seen one broken

[Bicyclist]

I had the same Powerlink/Dura-ace chain combo on 5+ bikes for over 2 years. Still going on my friend's bike. I'm surprised you had problems with it.

[bballe336]

I like the powerlink design, and haven't had any trouble with Sram chains. That said I haven't had any trouble with any brand of chain, but more by joining multiple sections of chain as a quick fix and then just not bothering to buy a new chain until something crappy happens.

[Jim Mac]

Never had a problem with quick links. Being a PT shop employee, the only problems I have seen with quick links have involved improper installation. Have a pro XC friend who lost her chain in a recent race due to this.

[FOXROX]

well i know i put it on right and i know that my chain is long enough, the second time that the link snapped both of the "prongs" were in one link... i still swear by sram, i also like the design! just i don't feel to safe about it any more....

[Jim Mac]

Well, if you break a derailler, do you still trust it if you replace it with the same brand?

[FOXROX]

yeah... well that is usually rider mistake not factory malfunction... but regardless I'm not dissing sram

[urbaindk]

but more by joining multiple sections of chain as a quick fix and then just not bothering to buy a new chain .

I usually retire the chain after 4 quick links, but that's just me.

In four years of using them, I've only had one pop on me.

To the OP, my guess is you are doing something wrong.

[MobileChernobyl]

3 chains in such a short time period... Sorry man, sounds like user error.

I don't know many people that break chains, however I personally do occasionally break them. And its NEVER because the power link itself physically broke. Usually its because a pin popped out somewhere else and just let go on a high-torgue section. I think I may have had a quick link come apart once (because I put it on wrong in a hurry) but never break.

Do you by chance wash your chain in a concentrated bath of white fuming nitric acid? That'll do 'er.

[Hougham]

Never really had problems with the SRAM chains. We started supplying them as had endless problems with other brands. A common problem with the SRAM chains is often people try and use chain barkers to join the chain when really you cant. You must only use the power link.

[DirtyMike]

well i know i put it on right and i know that my chain is long enough, the second time that the link snapped both of the "prongs" were in one link... i still swear by sram, i also like the design! just i don't feel to safe about it any more....

Humor me for a sec if you would, Pull your shock off, put your chain in your granny gear, and cycle the suspension..... Lets just call it Due dilegence<sp>

[FOXROX]

i already know that the chain is long enough. because the first chain i has was 2 links 2 short now like leave it a couple links longer