Current Projects chat and miscellany

Simplify the experiment by joining a half link and a regular chain, half and half, on the same bike. That way, you know that both chains are exposed to identical conditions.

Nice. A good idea, I hadn't thought of.

Do you have data to which well, is it is not privy?

I meant to test the idea that half link chains stretch by extension of the plates (plates straightening at their bend). So I was thinking putting a half link chain in some kind of tensile test machine, loading it up until i saw plastic deformation, then deciding if the load applied was anywhere near a realistic load from pedalling.

Totally a half-formed idea, but you're quite right to say "data?". I agree.