I'll add this--the Sachs PC48 seems to be more forgiving of cog wear than any other chain. If you are trying to milk more use out of a visibly worn freewheel or cassette, it's got the best chance of not having the "new chain on old cogs" problem. David Feldman
> In a message dated 2/17/01 10:00:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
moos@penn.com
> writes:
>
>
> > Also, are any of the currently sold SRAM chains a reasonable substitute
> > for an old SedisSport on the preindex stuff?
> >
>
> As I reported recently in a post to rec.bikes.tech, I asked the SRAM tech
rep
> this question last time he was by the Cycle Center shop I worked at. He
told
> me that SRAM had no stock of nor any way to make any more of the older,
> laterally stiffer Sachs and Sedis chains. He suggested that the 9-speed
> SACHS chains would be better for older friction-shifting bikes than the
> 8-speed versions, since the 9-speed chains were designed to be a bit
stiffer
> laterally.
>
> I will note, in addition to the above, that he didn't really seem to care
> about bikes with pre-STI/Ergo shifting systems at all.
>
> Personally, I use Sachs PC-48's for everything except the fixed gear bikes
> and on them I run 1/8" BMX chains. The Sachs masterlinks seem to work
quite
> well, better than those wretched Shimano one-use pins anyway. I was
stunned
> and disappointed (once again) when the Cycle Center decided to from now on
> offer ONLY Shimano chains - probably because of issues concerned with
> generating maximum revenues. The only chain I have EVER had fail, in all
my
> decades of cycling, was a Shimano 8-speed chain that broke due to rivit
> failure while I was climbing.
>
> Glenn Jordan - Durham, NC