Tiger_Mike
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Last week while commuting, I noticed the drivetrain was getting pretty noisy on the XStream even though I had just cleaned and lubed the chain. I checked it with the Park Tool gizmo, and sure enough it checked right at .75, which seemed kind of marginal for replacement I thought. So I counted the links (270), and ordered the chain. I layed the old and new chains out on the floor in the garage and matched them link by link, shifting one of them a little bit every couple of feet until I got to the other end- I wanted to make sure I removed exactly the right pin to remove the excess on the new chain. I was surprised to see that the old chain had stretched a little more than the length on one link. That seemed unreasonable until I thought about it a little. If there's just a little more than .001 wear at each of the pins, that would make the chain get a half inch longer over all. I'll take it out for a test ride tomorrow, but I'm already expecting a quiet ride.
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