Another slack chain question

Ignore doesn't work... just as well because that is fucking funny.

Threads don't stretch

no, but chains do

Puts thread on ATTENTION. Rates as excellent.

Even if engineers do get it wrong sometime.

I'm with murts......and Ed......and me.

Not the aussie. They're too sophisticated.

Did you all hear that? Aussie and sophisticated....on the same line.

Mental.

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http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brandt/chain-care.html

Riders often speak of "chain stretch" a technically misleading and incorrect term. Chains do not stretch, in the dictionary sense, by elongating the metal by tension. Chains lengthen because their hinge pins and sleeves wear. Chain wear is caused almost exclusively by road grit that enters the chain when it is oiled. Grit adheres to the outside of chains in the ugly black stuff that can get on ones leg, but external grime has little functional effect, being on the outside where it does the chain no harm.

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A quick summary for any latecomers

Oh, and no, they don't stretch

Well, I've got family in Australia......

How about changing to saying "chains appear to stretch, to the feebleminded"

what about those belt drive chains do they strech or is that wear?

that would be stretching as it is a belt formed into one piece of material

that photo above reminds me of this photo of me from a few years back -

Haha. This guy totally freaks me out - I see him a lot in Battersea always dressed in a variation on that 'outfit.' Worst. Tranny. Ever.

He's certainly got some balls.