Broken chain after 800km

[rudi-h]

Question A

User error:

• Not cleaning chain often enough - refer to your statement marked as (Statement A)
• Not lubing chain - You only started at 600km? - Refer to your statement marked as (Statement B) - Assuming this is MTB (because everybody is afraid of doing road on road bikes
• Possibly cross chaining?
• Possibly changing gears under power?

 

Question B

No, if you refrain from user errors as mentioned under question A

 

Statement 1

No good enough

 

Statement 2

The inference is you did not lube the chain before that, as you have lots of detail about your actions, but nothing about your lubing strategy for first 600km. Your lube strategy is not good enough

 

Statement 3

Not a real issue, but given all the above, you borked that chain

 

harsh on the poor guy...  

 

i doubt that breaking a chain after 800km is not user error, something else went wrong.  I've only broke a chain once and that was because i pushed the pin too far in with the chain tool, and i'm generally pretty damn bad (worst than the OP) with bike cleaning and maintenance.  I rode in the mud and rain for 4 days once on a bike tour in alaska where I had no running water to clean the chain.  I just applied some wet lube ontop of the mud every morning until the squeaking stopped.  After about 400km of riding i found a stream, washed the mud off and the chain was still good for thousands of km's after that.

[Goodbadugly]

I try to teach the kids not to "hooligan shift" Shifting under power.