Recommendations for a decent (quiet) 1/8 chain

Think i got an izumi you can have, used for 3 months

Not strictly related, but don't want to open a thread just to show...

how to lube your chain Keirin style...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsCbgwcTRNY&eurl=http://www.foromtb.com/showthread.php?t=362147

Pretty ingenious way to do it!

Bring the noise! You should appreciate the track chain's noise. It serves as an early warning to peds that a mohawk, tattooed, drunk, brakeless psycho is coming..
Leave me out of this...

Think i got an izumi you can have, used for 3 months

thanks but i'll pass. its for my work bike so tax and vat deductible with a receipt from condor.

Leave me out of this...

haha

GT has an izumi £8 jobby from condor took the advice off some dickhead (object) about getting a cheaper chain riding it to close to death and swapping more regularly... sound advice at the time due to funds... but it dont aff make a rackit! Gonna upgrade to HKK soon.

I have been using SRAM P.C.1 chain fuches chain lube and silent AS . . . . . . .

who sells the HKK chains in the UK?

who sells the HKK chains in the UK?

Planet X do the blue one for £21 which is very reasonable. There are Japanese sellers on Ebay charging that plus shipping

My daily runner has a miche chain from cyclebasket. Its running over a miche chainring and an eai cog with a few babs of white lightning wax chain lube, and it really is wisper quite, like properly silent.

My track bike has and Izumi esh rolling basically dry over campag chainring and DA sprocket and it sounds like a tractor with a busted engine being attacked by a man with a chainsaw carrying a bag full of spanners, and I like it!

how to lube your chain Keirin style...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsCbgwcTRNY&eurl=http://www.foromtb.com/showthread.php?t=362147

Pretty ingenious way to do it!

Shouldn't that be on YouLube

belt drive FTW

Here's my experience. I run a kmc z50 3/32 on my kona and the chainline is not perfect,but no noise when lubed. I have also now picked up a beater with a taya(?) 1/8 chain on which I run 3/32 chainring/sprocket. Its not lubed and chailine is good and is also whisper quiet. Go figure?!

GT has an izumi £8 jobby from condor took the advice off some dickhead (object) about getting a cheaper chain riding it to close to death and swapping more regularly... sound advice at the time due to funds... but it dont aff make a rackit! Gonna upgrade to HKK soon.

take it off and turn it over every month to make it last longer

so now i have an izumi esh i realise my previous chain wasn't an esh but possibly a cheaper silver one although the cheaper one they showed me in condor looked dull silver not shiny like my current chain? anyway the esh has one of those screw connectors which i don't really want to use will the spring clip from the old chain be o.k to use?

I just replaced my KMC 510 with a mid range DID, and I am now having trouble sneaking up on unsuspecting noddies.

Could chainring wear like this...

And a ding on my cog like this...

be the source of my woes? Or is the DID just noisy.

My chain line is measured straight. I adjusted it very slightly (phil BB).

I don't listen to Slayer, and prefer the sound of my tyres on the road.

noisey chain jay

so now i have an izumi esh i realise my previous chain wasn't an esh but possibly a cheaper silver one although the cheaper one they showed me in condor looked dull silver not shiny like my current chain? anyway the esh has one of those screw connectors which i don't really want to use will the spring clip from the old chain be o.k to use?

the screw connector is fine been running mine for a couple of months, have been checking it and it hasn't come loose at all. that's also doing over 120 miles per week

noisey chain jay

Yes, and it is making my OCDs all jumpy. Almost threw my bike in the river the other day. Stopped myself when I realised all I have as backup is a shit folder.

the screw connector is fine been running mine for a couple of months, have been checking it and it hasn't come loose at all. that's also doing over 120 miles per week

+1

been running a screw connector for about 9 months now, no issues. and i do find it very handy when breaking the chain.

Loophole heat treated BMX chain. It'll set you back £15-£20 but it's bombproof and really quiet. I've been using the same chain on my BMX for 3 years without a single break, and that's with a half link in as well.

http://www.crucialbmxshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=434

When I was getting Pearson's to sort my chainline out for me, Guy recommended swapping my 17t BLB sprocket for an 18t one they had there.

Unfortunately the sprocket is an unbranded noisy piece of shit, when riding it's clear that there's a good clattering coming from the rear sprocket which is being amplified by my H+Son rim.

If I get a quality sprocket like a Phil Wood or EAI am I going to improve the problem or am I forever doomed riding with H+Son's?

Whizz, I'm running H+Sons with a EAI cog and it's very quiet. The chain is a ten quid KMC one. I'd try getting a better cog.

+1 for KMC Z510 in 1/8 and Z610 in 3/32 but make sure you get the HX variant, better split link and a bit tougher. Quiet, hard wearing, shiny chrome, cheap... what's not to like?

Cheers mate I'm running a KMC Z510 which I had on my old bike and it was dead quiet. I put the noise down to this chain being a regular Z510 and my old one being coloured, therefore deadening the sound, but it really isn't right. I'll spend good money on a Phil Wood or EAI.