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Submitted by
Julius
a Cross Country Rider
from San Diego, CA, USA
Date Reviewed: 3/4/2008 11:17:57 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $10 |
| Purchased At: | Price Point |
| Strengths: | Strong, nickel plated, cheap. |
| Weaknesses: | Very, very, and I mean very stiff links after tensioning. |
| Bike Setup: | Soma Juice SS |
| Bottom Line: | I'm having a real gripe with the links. They are stiff as heck! When I power down it sometimes skips and I am definitely damaging my cog and chain. At least it's cheap. |
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Submitted by
Raghavan
from Palo Alto, CA
Date Reviewed: 8/16/2006 12:04:19 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $12 |
| Purchased At: | Mikes Bikes |
| Strengths: | Cheap, works |
| Weaknesses: | Stiff links |
| Similar Products Tried: | none |
| Bike Setup: | '05 HR Comp |
| Bottom Line: | It's an OK chain, but it's cheap. It does have a lot of stiff links which means a LOT of chain skip while mashing hard. |
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Submitted by
Jon
a Cross Country Rider
from Bozeman, MT, US
Date Reviewed: 5/25/2006 9:14:15 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Price Paid: | $10 |
| Purchased At: | JensonUSA |
| Strengths: | Cheap, sexy nickel plating, durable, easy to install. |
| Weaknesses: | Makes my bike that more attractive to would be theives... |
| Similar Products Tried: | None... first singlespeed! |
| Bike Setup: | 80's Puegeot ten speed converted with track hubs, Zac wheels, bullhorn bar, carbon fiber fork, centerpull brake with red kool stop V-brake pads pulled by a Deore LX lever. |
| Bottom Line: | This is a good chain, it looks great, won't rust, won't jump, and well... it's nickel plated. I'll never again buy a non nickel plated chain. This bike is running at 52t by 17t, which is pretty damn steep, I also resist and do my share of skid stops, so that should speak to it's durability. Never had a stiff link either. |
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Submitted by
Mike
a Weekend Warrior
from MD
Date Reviewed: 5/4/2006 2:31:05 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Price Paid: | $10 |
| Purchased At: | PricePoint |
| Strengths: | It has been a good solid preformer for me. Low cost and durable. |
| Weaknesses: | None. |
| Bike Setup: | Fetish Fixation, Raceface DH crank/BB, XT hubs w/ Sun rinolite rims. WTB werewolf front/Tioga Factory XC rear, Kore stem and HB, WTB saddle |
| Bottom Line: | A good solid inexpensive chain for SS. Would buy again. |
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Submitted by
Mike
from PA
Date Reviewed: 4/15/2006 3:23:21 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years |
| Strengths: | Cheap. It works. |
| Weaknesses: | None yet after 3 years. |
| Similar Products Tried: | I've only needed the PC1 |
| Bottom Line: | I know I'm going against the crowd on this one but I have no gripes with this chain. Been using them for 3 years on my SS. |
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Submitted by
M. Moy
a Cross Country Rider
from Chicago, IL
Date Reviewed: 4/13/2006 6:05:53 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $10 |
| Purchased At: | Performance Bike |
| Strengths: | Cheap |
| Weaknesses: | Cheap and heavy. Could not piece together snap-link connector. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Shimano HG Chain |
| Bike Setup: | Old school/retro Barracuda! (Single speed conversion) |
| Bottom Line: | You get what you pay for. |
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Submitted by
Robin Miller
a Weekend Warrior
from New York, NY, USA
Date Reviewed: 10/9/2005 4:12:01 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | riverside |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $8 |
| Purchased At: | Nashbar |
| Strengths: | Cheap, looks shiny, snap link connector is convenient. |
| Weaknesses: | INCURABLE STIFF LINKS! This chain is really poor quality. It is plagued by 'phantom' stiff links.. When the chain is not tensioned, all the links seem fine, but when you tension it (ie. start riding), the links start to stick, and you get serious chain skip. A bike with a chain like this is totally unrideable, not to mention that it damages the rear sprocket. |
| Similar Products Tried: | SRAM PC-68, various Shimano HG chains |
| Bike Setup: | 1993 Steel Stumpjumper SS conversion. Chris King SS rear cog, IRC Metro slicks. |
| Bottom Line: | This chain is worse than useless. It not only is unusable, but it causes damage to the rear sprocket, and SS rear sprockets can be expensive! My opinion of SRAM has gone down a few notches. |
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Submitted by
Ivan
from C-Springs
Date Reviewed: 7/26/2005 1:50:17 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Tanner |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Purchased At: | Performance |
| Strengths: | Cheap, easy to size and install |
| Weaknesses: | none, yet. |
| Similar Products Tried: | n/a |
| Bike Setup: | Monkey w/ ACS and RF drivetrain |
| Bottom Line: | Strengths pretty much hit it on the head. Its a cheap chain that's held up well for me. I'm 220 and ride 3-4 times per week (1-2 of those are commutes tho). No issues. |
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Submitted by
tim
a Weekend Warrior
from calgary
Date Reviewed: 5/31/2005 4:23:18 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $8 |
| Purchased At: | bowcycle |
| Strengths: | blinng blinng |
| Weaknesses: | whole thing |
| Bottom Line: | well i would say dont get it. i snapped it 3 times in under a month. its a peice. when you put it together, your allways going to get a stiff link no matter what breaker you use. and if you try to pull the chain side to side to get the stiff link weaker/out. it dont work, chain is to stiff to go side to side. |
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