Road Bike Chain Measuring Tool
Park tool chain checkers are made expressly for the task of quantifying chain wear.
Road bike chain measuring tool. How when to change a chain on your road bike duration. The likes of kmc sram park tool and abbey bike tools all agree that the 0 5 percent marking on most chain checkers is a safe point to replace the chain before cassette wear becomes an issue. Measuring chain wear or what can be called chain stretch on a road bike isn t as difficult as you might think. Use your chain cutting tool to cut the chain to size.
Loose gears creaky chains flat tyres whatever your bike ailment our range of bike maintenance tools has a fix. Locate the closest outer plate and inner plate where the chains meet. This video will take you step by step through sizing a bike chain. Then count 2 rivets down along the excess length of the chain.
Use a marker to circle the rivet that can join the 2 chains. How to check for bike chain wear. Oumers universal bike chain tool with chain hook road and mountain bicycle chain repair tool bike chain splitter cutter breaker bicycle remove and install chain breaker spliter chain tool. Ct 3 2 chain tool.
For the best chain article adam kerin of zero friction cycling measured on average 19 earlier wear rates by using a two point digital chain checker than when measuring the external pin to pin. Amazon s choice for bike chain measuring tool. The industry standard for chain replacement is when the chain wear is between 0 75 and 1 0. To start measuring chain wear with the cc 3 2 locate the end of the tool with the 0 5 stamp.
This easy to use lifeline tool will clearly show when it s time for a chain change on your bike possibly preventing you encountering a snapped chain when you re out for a ride. If the chain uses a master link install it on one of the chain for purposes of measuring and measure including the master link. Rigorous equation examples of bikes using the rigorous equation would be a track bike with a large front ring perhaps a 55 tooth and a small rear cog such as a 11 tooth. Install the hook end on a link with inner plates to ensure you re measuring against the roller and not the side plates.
4 4 out of 5 stars 1 609. Gcn tech 78 999 views. You ll cut the chain at this point so consider drawing a line on it with a marker.