2 Powerlinks on 1 chain ?

Anonymous

Hey guys

I bought a new PC991 chain and a couple of extra power links for it.

My brother told me how to split the chain and basically he told me wrong so I split it too short.

With the few links that was left over I salvaged from that the 3 more that I needed and made the chain the correct length but now its joined together with 2 power links as in the picture below:



Can someone tell me if this is ok to use like that ? will 2 power II links so close together be a problem with the chain rings or going up and down the cassette or am I good to go with this ?

Cheers in advance

warpcow

It's totally fine.

Anonymous

Yeeeha awesome thanks for that, now I can go get some miles done.

Cheers

cooldad

I have exactly the same on my current chain and it's been fine - lasted well over a year. I look at it as a positive - if the chain snaps I've always got a spare pwerlink, even if the resulting chain will be a bit short it will get me home.

Great Ayton

Its fine to have two of the correct links for your chain as people have said

CubeCrazy wrote:

But but it looks like you may have accidental put 8 speed links on a 9 speed chain. Though it is rather hard to tell from the photo. If you take a close up of the link it self I could tell you more.

Anonymous

Thanks a lot guys

And oh wow Ayton *bows* what cool spotting there ! thanks very much

Until today mate I didnt even know there was such thing as a 8 or 9 speed power link, I assumed they was all the same but I remember I gave my bro a new link once when he broke down and he bought me a replacement and I guess he slipped me a 8 speed link instead of a 9 speed one.

I checked and you were right, the power links on my chain, one half was 9 speed mating to the other half which was a 8 speed link lol.



I thought they was a bit hard to get on and off

Both sides now 9 speed powerlinks and clip on and off easy.

Thanks for saving my bacon yet again fellas

Great Ayton

Nice to know im not totally blind yet :P Glad you got it sorted in the end CubeCrazy

The Northern Monkey

I sometimes wonder why chains are just made from powerlinks... they're never the bit that snaps

stubs

The Northern Monkey wrote:

I sometimes wonder why chains are just made from powerlinks... they're never the bit that snaps

You were saying

cooldad

Ah but that's a Sram one. Should have been KMC

nicklouse

and if you can be bothered googling you will find just about anything broken.

The Rookie

I deliberately run my chains with 2 powerlinks one inner link apart so I'm carrying an extra spare inner/outer pair (on top of what I carry anyway.....)

Anonymous

Thanks a lot guys for your help and advice on this one, I can see it makes total sense that when one gets a new chain its wise to split it twice and add an extra power link so if you do brake down on the trail you have an extra link to get you back, very clever and it's something I will always do now when I buy a new chain

stubs

nicklouse wrote:

and if you can be bothered googling you will find just about anything broken.

Thats not off Google thats my very own fair hand. Its the first one I have broken since I started using them about 10 years or so ago. Took me a few minutes to untangle the chain and I had to push the pin through the link with my multi tool so I could get it apart. Put it all together again with a link and clicked my way home luckily mostly downhill.

njee20

I've broken several Power Links, which considering they represent less than 1% of the chain isn't great odds.

They're good, but not as strong as a normal link.

zx6man

I may be going mental, but how having 2 on will it help a snapped chain?

zx6man

Hang on, one inner link apart, the penny has now dropped!! I'll get my coat...

Anonymous

zx6man wrote:

Hang on, one inner link apart, the penny has now dropped!! I'll get my coat...