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I think bike shops are wrong about Park Tool being the best chain checker
I stopped by a shop in Portland last week and watched them use a Park Tool CC-2 on a customer's chain. They called it good at .75 stretch, but I measured it with a digital caliper and it was way past .08 on the pins. The CC-2 said it was fine because the rollers were worn, not the pins. Has anyone else caught this problem with these basic checkers?
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simonk983d ago
Nah you're overthinking it, those checkers work fine for 99% of people.
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the_claire2d ago
Didn't someone just post a study showing those checkers miss like 15% of real problems? That's a lot more than 1% for the people dealing with the fallout.
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kellygrant3d ago
People have been cutting corners on basics for a while now, not just with checkers. The whole push for speed over quality means most folks accept "good enough" even when a bit more care would prevent problems down the road. Maybe that's just how things are now, but it feels like we lose something when we stop expecting more.
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