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From: joels@tektronix.UUCP (Joel Swank)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: PROBLEM:  My new chain is skipping...
Message-ID: <2491@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-May-84 01:28:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 14 01:28:43 1984
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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    The bike shop that said you should change the cluster with the chain is
correct. That's what they told me. I didn't believe it. I learned the hard
way. The chain slowly stretches as you ride. (if you don't believe it, hold
your old chain up beside your new chain.) As it does it slowly widens the
spaces in the rear cluster teeth. A new chain will have shorter links and
will not quite match the wider spaces in the cluster, therefore shipping
will occur.
    If you do put a new chain on an old cluster and ride it far enough,
the two will slowly wear to match. The time I made the mistake, I was in
New Zealand and could not get a new cluster. It took about 1200 miles for
the skipping to go away completely. Now I change both the cluster and
chain every 3-4000 miles.

Joel Swank
Tektronix, Beaverton OR