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Tijs-
That’s not much consolation when you’re lying in the road.
If it’s less nasty for your chain to be too long than too short, why not suggest to people asking, such as in this thread, to start with the biggest combination and go from there rather than the way of a qualified mechanic who’ll spot a problem like the wrong cassette before the chain comes out of the box.
PhilDAS
Yeah but if you’ve fitted too large a cassette or too short a cage and you set chain length based on the smallest combination, as hazzelfrazzel points out, you’re going to run into trouble when your chains too short and you grind to a halt with your jockey wheels in your spokes. In practise it would rarely happen but I feel like it’s just safer to suggest setting chain length based on the biggest combination