KMC X10L chain

speshsteve
speshsteve Posts: 352
edited July 2011 in Road buying advice
I've just replaced my OEM shimano chain and cassette on my roubaix (running 105, cassette changed from a 105 12-27 to a 11-28 ultegra.....wish I'd stuck with 12-27 but thats a diff story) with the above chain.

Ever since I've had trouble making the drive chain run smoothly. The issue is when the chain is running slightly crossed the rear derailler is slightly catching the chain on the lower jockey wheel against the cage. It never did this before and on checking I think the KMC chain is slightly thicker hence the problem. Anyone else had this or similar issue before (OEM shimano chain looks the same thickness as the sram i.e. I think they are fractionally slimmer then the KMC?)

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  • rothers_bikeo
    rothers_bikeo Posts: 225
    I'm running a KMC 10 on my Ultegra compact chainset (11-28 rear) and it's fine. I prefer it to the original Ultegra chain. Is your chain length correct ?
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    Did you measure your chain properly, or just cut it the same length as the last one?.
    Maybe the extra tooth on the rear is proving just too much a stretch for the chain length.
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  • porker33
    porker33 Posts: 636
    I couldn't get the KMC link to work, one of the posts on the link would pull through the side of the chain link, I think it was supplied broken, so I just fitted the chain with regular pins, seems to run fine.
  • Butterd2
    Butterd2 Posts: 937
    I've run x.10L's and SL's on Ultegra and they work much better than Shimano (even DA) IMHO
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  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    are you sure its an x10l. the x10.93 is fractionally wider.
  • speshsteve
    speshsteve Posts: 352
    all sorted now :)

    Just took some further minute tweaking and its all snickety, snickety now

    Anyone else find it takes about a gazillion tweaks to get gears to shift perfectly!
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    http://steve-lamarmotte2012.blogspot.com/
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    Spesh Roubaix
    Genesis Equilibrium
    Spesh FSR Stumpy Expert
    Spesh M4 Stumpy
    Brompton SL2
    Giant TCX
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  • arlowood
    arlowood Posts: 2,561
    speshsteve wrote:
    all sorted now :)

    Just took some further minute tweaking and its all snickety, snickety now

    Anyone else find it takes about a gazillion tweaks to get gears to shift perfectly!


    Just seen this link in another post that might prove useful.

    According to this there is no "black art" in setting up your gear indexing.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzvfCaIbyQ

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