Chain keeps breaking

[Active Monkey]

I bought a new chain and its now broken the 3rd time. Broke about a week after purchase.. Got link, again about month later, and another link in now today broke 3rd time... Each time at a different spot.

 

Today it was while i was peddling hard on a uphill.

 

Chain is lubbed, gears are fine... What is the issue

[Guest Latent Blue]

What chain is it. Where dit you buy it?

[fanievb]

are you using a powerlink?

[Bobbo_SA]

are you using a powerlink?

 

Or are you reusing the pin you pushed out? SRAM and Shimano chains lately dont like reusing pins, thats why SRAM chains come with a powerlink and shimano come with a new pin that you break off once it's in.

 

I had the same with a chain where i reused the pins, since not doing it anymore i have yet to break a chain.

[Dicky DQ]

How long you been riding? I used to break chains all the time until I learnt to manage my changes, Cross chain and changing under load is death to a chain.

[Flowta]

 

 

Or are you reusing the pin you pushed out? SRAM and Shimano chains lately dont like reusing pins, thats why SRAM chains come with a powerlink and shimano come with a new pin that you break off once it's in.

 

I had the same with a chain where i reused the pins, since not doing it anymore i have yet to break a chain.

 

ThE original post the OP says it's at a different spot each time.

[BushGoblin]

don't pedal so hard . If the chain is new, do you perhaps cross chain a lot?

[Johan Bornman]

Not enough information here to answer your question.

 

Give us details.

[Active Monkey]

What chain is it. Where dit you buy it?

 

Xt that i got from the guys in morning side

[Bobbo_SA]

 

 

ThE original post the OP says it's at a different spot each time.

 

Effing trolls... :-)

 

Sorry, although i know at least in my case i would not be able to tell if it was the same or a different link.

[Active Monkey]

Its def not my shifting as my previous chain never broke neither the one before that one...

[Johan Bornman]

Its def not my shifting as my previous chain never broke neither the one before that one...

 

That doesn't rule out shifting. Chains are manufactured in a continuous process. Should there have been a manufacturing defect (SRAM had one a few years back), it will show up in many chains. We haven't seen any reports of mass chain breakage yet and I doubt yours is a special case.

 

If you have given up on the chain, test it's integrity thus: Put it in a vice and forcefully bend it sideways. See if you can make the sideplates pop off relatively easily.

 

let us know.