Eugene,
Your recollection/experience is the same as mine with one
exception. If you also had a touring bike equipped with a
Huret Duopar, you would find that it too would need a laterally
stiffer chain than the Sedis. This is especially the case for
bicycles with long chain stays.
Cheers,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia
> My recollection, what I was told back then was, that the
> regina chain
> was stiffer and the campy derailluers seemed to need that.
> The Sedis
> would shift really well for little while (at first maybe
> better than
> the Regina) but quickly loosen up and get pretty sloppy. It
> didn't seem
> to stretch any faster or wear out quicker, it just got kinda
> flexy.
> This didn't seem to be a problem with other derailleurs.
>
> Or this could be the stuff they told me to shut me up and
> send me back
> down to the basement..................
>
> On Feb 24, 2005, at 9:54 AM, Edward Albert wrote:
>
> > Jerry
> > Regina certainly was "de rigeur" but, as I recall, by
> the mid to
> > latter 1970's we were all using Sedis Sport chains. You
> raced on them
> > for a bit and, because they were so cheap, just threw them
> out rather
> > than bothering to clean them. Of course you could only do
> this so
> > many times before your freewheel and new chain no longer
> mated well
> > and started jumping on your favorite cog. I also remember
> one problem
> > I always had with SedisSport chains. Because of the narrow
> links they
> > never quite fit well into the chain tools I would use. Had
> to force
> > the links into the tool slot.
> > Edward Albert
> > Chappaqua, NY
>
> Gene Powell
> Rad Finishes
> Portland, OR
>
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