On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 8:44:57 AM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 8:22:48 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 8:17:22 AM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 8:08:39 AM UTC-7, wrote:
Today the wind hasn't picked up to "Oh my God" yet so I will take a ride and test out my shifting on the Eddy Merckx. The only thing I'm worried about is overshifting in the big ring and throwing the chain off.
You know, there is a limit screw on your front derailleur that prevents you from throwing the chain off. You might want to adjust that.
The chain now has three quick links in it and that isn't a good omen but we'll see.
How does that even happen? If it were a Shimano chain, at least you could use pins so you didn't have a bunch of dopey quick links.
Jay, have you ever actually adjusted the front derailleur yourself?
Yes, and apparently, I do a better job than you because I don't leave the house worried that I'm going to drop my chain off the big ring. The small ring, yes -- chain suck or dropping off the small ring is sometimes hard to control depending on terrain, but with the big ring, you just adjust the limit screw. And getting the "precise angle" of the FD is not rocket science, but if you're having problems, go to the Park site or YouTube for instruction. BTW, my ho-made chain-suck protectors on my Norco: https://photos.app..goo.gl/KKHkV32f9sR5gUNQ6 Thermoformed Kydex.
Shimano pins are no more reliable than quick links. That is why KMC recommends quick links and they make chains FAR better than Shimano in my experience.
Shimano pins don't look stupid if you have three of them holding your chain together. Three quick links looks pretty stupid.

-- Jay Beattie.
I don't drop my chain off of the small ring because I use a Dog Fang. That means the only place it can drop is from the big ring from the limit screw bedding in deeper. But it didn't. What did happen was the Rear Derailleur Large Cog limit screw bedded in tighter and 2/3rd of the way into the ride overshifted the large cog. Because of the Campy wheels absolutely no damage done. It only required putting it back on and putting a quarter turn on the adjuster screw so that it wouldn't over shift though that allowed the gears to skip a little in the larger cogs.

As for quick links looking pretty stupid, that must be why it is so difficult to find a quick link on a chain. I couldn't even find them on my gold KMC ultra light chain until I was breaking the broken links out. And these days even Shimano includes a quick link as well as three pins.