I feel your pain. I've suffered from that very elusive problem many times, and gave forth a great deal of cussing before I wised up to the cause. The problem is all the worse in that sometimes the chain will track fine in the stand, and only start skipping when torque is applied. I took to rotating the chain backward through my fingers to find the stiff link by feel.
Now that I use masterlinks almost exclusively, I don't have to worry, and when I do reinstall a pin, I take proactive care to loosen the link when I install the chain. The stiff link ranks with punctures caused by slipping rim tape as the top frustraters of bike maintenance. On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:56 PM Wayne Naha <w.r.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > I should have posted this a while ago, when I figured this out, but that > clearly didn't happen. Now with lots of time on my hands, why not? I had > posted a coupe of times about the shifting problems the Clem was having. > Ghost shifting, never wanting to settle down on a cog, very sensitive to > the slightest input from the shifter, etc. At first, I blamed myself. The > last time I had friction shifted was back when five cogs in the rear were > standard. I figured that I just wasn't doing it right. I had tightened > the screw on the hex bolt on the stock shifters to prevent them from > slipping. This reduced the problem some, but did not eliminate it. For > some time, I rode the Clem as a single speed, since when I would finally > get the drive train happy, I never wanted to disturb it again. This was, > of course, unsatisfactory. And even though I had been told that the rear > derailer was not the cause of this problem, I began giving the wonky > looking Claris RD the stink eye. Finally, I decided to replace it. Even > though it could not be the cause of the problem. I did have what I thought > was a sexier looking Deore LX RD in my parts bin. If I was doomed to have > a chattering drive train, it would be with a nicer RD. But it was in the > process of changing out the RD that the root cause of my problem was > revealed. For as I am adjusting the travel of the derailer, and running > the chain through, lo and behold I discover there is a frozen link in the > chain! > After a few minutes of flexing the chain, the frozen link is freed, and I > finish the install. Now, when I go for the test ride, my Clem is > blissfully silent! Shifting is a breeze! I can have any gear I want! > Now, some of you old hands at bike maintenance are probably saying to > yourselves, "Of course, you big dummy! You should have checked that right > away!" Probably true, but I never expected this on a new chain. I've only > seen this on old, beat, rusty chains. Anyway, I have since apologized to > the Claris for wronging it in my heart, but it's still not going back on my > Clem. The Deore remains completely better looking. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/66f6294d-856a-4a42-9627-76ddfb556b17%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/66f6294d-856a-4a42-9627-76ddfb556b17%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgs2s5jyVsKsG_6CCmfE%3DWuGfAPgQPH8NSBg2mfd-BMfgg%40mail.gmail.com.
