Campy chain - are they kidding?

Somehow, I ended up at the Campy site and read instructions for the 10-spd
chain. Besides their tool (I do like the way it locks things into place!),
the pin is two-piece, and they claim the chain has a definite right and
left side. Furthermore, the chain must be installed by pushing in the pin
from beneath the BB. Finally, if you remove the chain, you need to cut out
7 link pieces and replace this string with their special 7-link section
(and two more 2-piece pins).

After reading all this, do they expect anyone except professional team
mechanics to buy their tool and chain and go through this?

Konex makes a perfectly good 10-speed chain for much less. It also has a
right and left side but is very easy to install (no pin to push per se). I
misinstalled it the first time around and it shifted fine but left me with a
bit of a hop in the chain in the smallest cog until Peter Chisolm suggested
I reverse the master link.

Jim Flom

"richard" wrote in message
6.16...
Somehow, I ended up at the Campy site and read instructions for the 10-spd
chain. Besides their tool (I do like the way it locks things into
place!),
the pin is two-piece, and they claim the chain has a definite right and
left side. Furthermore, the chain must be installed by pushing in the pin
from beneath the BB. Finally, if you remove the chain, you need to cut
out
7 link pieces and replace this string with their special 7-link section
(and two more 2-piece pins).

After reading all this, do they expect anyone except professional team
mechanics to buy their tool and chain and go through this?

Jim Flom wrote:

Konex makes a perfectly good 10-speed chain for much less.

That would be the "ConneX" chain by Wippermann.

-as

"Antti Salonen" wrote ...

That would be the "ConneX" chain by Wippermann.

Indeed.

richard- Besides their tool (I do like the way it locks things into place!),
the pin is two-piece, and they claim the chain has a definite right and
left side. Furthermore, the chain must be installed by pushing in the pin
from beneath the BB. Finally, if you remove the chain, you need to cut out
7 link pieces and replace this string with their special 7-link section
(and two more 2-piece pins).

After reading all this, do they expect anyone except professional team
mechanics to buy their tool and chain and go through this? BRBR


Well in reality, you don't need the 'tool', just like you didn't need the
permalink tool(a chaintool and a dime worked fine). Plus I'll bet that the
'teams' change chains more than they clean them and if they do, i am sure they
use a snaplink, like the connex one.

For you-install the pin, when it comes to cleaning, buy a snap link OR get a
Connex chain to start with...

Use a well made chaintool, push the pin in straight. All that is unique about
the Campagnolo tool(I have one) is tht it has little push thru gizmo that holds
the plates stable while you push the pin thru. It doubles as a really nice
chaintool.

Peter Chisholm
Vecchio's Bicicletteria
1833 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO, 80302
(303)440-3535
http://www.vecchios.com
"Ruote convenzionali costruite eccezionalmente bene"

richard wrote:

Somehow, I ended up at the Campy site and read instructions for the 10-spd
chain. Besides their tool (I do like the way it locks things into place!),
the pin is two-piece, and they claim the chain has a definite right and
left side. Furthermore, the chain must be installed by pushing in the pin
from beneath the BB. Finally, if you remove the chain, you need to cut out
7 link pieces and replace this string with their special 7-link section
(and two more 2-piece pins).

After reading all this, do they expect anyone except professional team
mechanics to buy their tool and chain and go through this?

We build a lot of Campagnolo equipped bikes - more than any
shop of my acquaintance. We don't use their chain at all.

I keep one each model in stock and sell under ten a year
over the counter.

We're building with KMC mostly and we love them. Nice
snaplink. We also use Wippermann and SRAM chain.
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

A Muzi wrote ...
We build a lot of Campagnolo equipped bikes - more than any
shop of my acquaintance. We don't use their chain at all.

Agree the others are better but the real problem with the Campy chain is the
lousy link.
Change to a Connex and its a liveable solution - just make sure it goes on
the right way up.

best, Andrew (who didn't get to use his 11 until he learnt which was up)

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:54:38 GMT, "Andrew Price"
wrote:

Change to a Connex and its a liveable solution - just make sure it goes on
the right way up.

I've had good luck with the IRD 10sp chain which also comes with a
link. I use Shimano 9sp chain and Sram Powerlink II and that works
fine too.

In article ,
says...

After reading all this, do they expect anyone except professional team
mechanics to buy their tool and chain and go through this?

Of course not. They give it to them for free. It's nice being sponsored.
-------------
Alex

A Muzi wrote ...
We build a lot of Campagnolo equipped bikes - more than any
shop of my acquaintance. We don't use their chain at all.

Andrew Price wrote:
Agree the others are better but the real problem with the Campy chain is the
lousy link.
Change to a Connex and its a liveable solution - just make sure it goes on
the right way up.

I have to say I don't understand Wippermann's instructions
about reversing the snaplink for use with an 11t cog.

I mean, it is symmetric so what could change?
In the same vein, what's up with this?

http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr...t/shim10cn.jpg

I really cannot understand what could make any difference
with the chain joint one way or the other

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971