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Well that is certainly some rotten luck.
Have you managed to cool and compress your wrists? It should help them to not feel as sore the next few days from all the inflammation (I'm guessing this is correct procedure even with wrists, but perhaps another LFGSSer can confirm.)
No idea how that could have happened. How sure are you that the KMC quick link & chain are genuine? I've worked with mechanics who have seen broken quick links before, so they never use them. I've never had that experience personally.
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Quick link installed in the correct direction?
Did it actually fail at the pin or just self open?
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Riding home on a very lightly used 6800 cassette, Shimano chain, and KMC quick link with a very lightly used chainset (all was new at the same time) and going full gas through Mile End suddenly I lost all resistance pedalling and I assumed that the chain had jumped off the big ring and when I looked down the chain had come apart and was dragging on the road with sparks coming from it. I had about a second and a half to think “that’s weird” and begin to hit the brakes before everything locked up and I was on the deck. Currently my wrists are fucked, bruised and cut and I’m feeling very sore. Trying to figure out what went wrong… it was a legit kmc link and it’s been used for about 1500km and been well looked after and used under load (Alpe du Zwift) without issue.
I’m trying to figure out what happened and I’ve figured that the chain must have split and then travelled up through the rear derailleur and then jammed as it went through the front mech stopping my pedalling and causing me to go head over heels… but that might be wrong. But what went wrong? Just a dodgy quick link, bad luck or something more sinister?
I’m in a lot of pain and seek succour from strangers on the Internet