Help! Half-link chain link needed today!

Hi all, does anyone know where I might be able to track down a 1/8 half-link chain link today as close to Soho as possible? Looking like I might not be getting home without one...

sohohalflinkchainshop.com
lol!
try here jack

Try any Evans.

I didn't think Evans usually stocked single speed gear?

^ You say that Jon, but I went into Evans on The Cut last week for a half-link and the guy told me they didn't exist!?! And he apparently rides 'a fixie' too... I almost lamped the cnut... BC didn't get their delivery so they're out atm...

try Bikefix or condor

They stock those Charge 'Masher' half-link chains in all their shops.

Not according to FixieMatey™... Fucking cock... (Not you Jon, EvansPrick™)

I almost lamped the cnut...

i called cycle s*rgery last week asking for a domed mks pedal dust cap and the guys went 'huh, what's that? never heard of mks pedals'.

We're all doomed, Marlon... Doomed...

Sorted, cheers for the help - Evans does stock the Charge ones.

While I'm here, any advice on how best to use it? I hear half-link chains can be a lot weaker, so am I better off just using a single link from it, or just whacking on the whole lot?

use only as many as you need, the less the better

Do you know how to join chains? Rate yourself out of 10.
If it's less than 7, then you might consider using the whole chain, since you'll have only one link to join/pin to fuck up.

Point taken hippy. I've done a few in my time but since it looks like I'll be doing it in the street, I'll probably use the lot.

While I'm here, any advice on how best to use it? I hear half-link chains can be a lot weaker, so am I better off just using a single link from it, or just whacking on the whole lot?

If you have to ask, get the shop to do it.

You either purchase a single half link from some place that stocks them like Condor or a complete chain al la the charge one.

Only fuck around with chains if you know what you are doing, see illustration:

Agggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Oh god, my breakfast!

God that is orrible.

What the fuck happened there?!? ^

try Bikefix or condor

a long way from Soho thought.

what about Cavendish Cycles?

a long way from Soho thought.

what about Cavendish Cycles?

What!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

camon poeple, bus number 25 or 38 or...., 4 stops

FFS

Thanks for the help guys, Evans actually did the job. What's more, I made it home with the majority of my teeth intact.

do people realise you get the same amount of adjustment from using a single half link as you do with having a whole chain of half links? do they just get the whole chain because if how it looks or do they think because there are so many half links it will give them infinite adjustment?

Not according to FixieMatey™... Fucking cock... (Not you Jon, EvansPrick™)

I heard a guy in the Evans at St Pauls telling some girl a single/fixed was "a kind of lifestyle-bike..." WTF is "lifestyle" about a particular arrangement of the drive-train..?!??

I butted in and said "It tends to get you from A to B really fast, but it is a bit of an effort on the hills." She told the guy she wasn't fussed about speed and didn't want any effort on hills, so they stopped fucking about and moved on to the girlie-gearengers.

Lifestyle, my arse.

do people realise you get the same amount of adjustment from using a single half link as you do with having a whole chain of half links? do they just get the whole chain because if how it looks or do they think because there are so many half links it will give them infinite adjustment?

Sure, but Evans didn't stock single links.