Rivet vs Clip Link Chains

I've noticed on Ebay lately that there are a few 530 sized X-ring
chains on the market.

I've contacted some of the sellers, and most of them appear to have
'master clip' links rather than rivets.

Now unless clip technology has taken a bit of a leap in recent years,
I'd have thought this would be a bit sus, what with most 1000cc+ bikes
nowadays putting out 120+ hp at the rear wheel and god knows how much
torque...

I guess that if you a) did some safety wiring of the master clip, b)
avoided burnouts/wheelies, and c) kept it under 110KM/H all the time
you'd probably be ok.

OR am I being a bit pessimistic? Are the modern clip type master
links good for all the normal street use that big bikes get nowadays?


BF.

 

You are being a tad pessimistic! There is nothing wrong with usin a master
link with a clip. If they are fitted properly they do the job of securing
the chain rather well, the problem is that some people don't fit them
properly!

There is very little sideways stress put on a chain link, most of the forces
are acting directly on the roller and pin. When you calculate it all out
you'll find that only a poofteenth of a nanosquat of force actually acts to
push the link sideways.

HP at the rear wheel, cc of the bike, burnouts/wheelies/stoppies/power
slides, speed, torque (including mindless babbling) really don't affect the
clip that much.

So if the clip is in good nick (hasn't lost any of its springiness) and is
fitted properly it should work well but I'm of the opinion that using a
spring clip merely introduces another potential problem that I really don't
need into my riding. I had used spring clips for donkeys years both on the
track and road until rivet links became all the rage and I've also lost
spring clips and now I won't use anything else but rivets. Slap on the link,
a couple of taps with a ball-pein hammer to deform the end and viola! you're
away. I have never had a rivet clip fail.

 

Coopers, thanks

I believe it works out to around two thirds of five eighths of eff-all



Cheers

 

It's Whitworth....NO ONE KNOWS!

justAL

Beer!

 

Personally, I use rivets and have splashed out for a proper riveting tool.

 

I believe I'll share a Redback or three thanks!

Geez! You might want to be a little more specific ) Would you like that
as The British Standard Whitworth (BSW), British Standard Fine (BSF),
British Standard Parallel Pipe (BSPP), and British Standard Tapered Pipe
(BSTP) or British Association (BA)?

Oh yes, I ride british bikes so it makes perfect sense to me - not!

 

one side of the link clip is sharper than the other, make sure this
goes on the outside, use a dollop of silicon on the link to both aid
its installation and to keep it there...

but I use rivet chains cos I like to be sure...

personally I would be more suss of chains on ebay than the joining
method

Marty

 

All this, and yet they wonder why the sun has set on the Empire.

None of this new fangled white-mans magic metric stuff for you then

 

I'll second the silicon idea - I lost a few clips from my GPX250 until
I started doing that. I only ever broke 1 clip link though - most of
the time when it came time to remove the chain I had to hammer the
bloody things out!

(I usually carry one as a spare in case of a chain breakage whilst on
the road).

I'm sure they'd be satisfactory for a CT90... ;-)


BTH

 

Speak up laddie!! I can't quite hear you )

 

sure..... but would they be worthy of a CT90 ?

MH

 

.... and sometimes one of the right size.........

Moike

 

I stopped using any type of joining link. Shafts are sooo much
smoother, and cheaper, and cleaner...

SteveB

 

Half a Fairy Fart of course

 

I've had a Regina gold chain break a joining link once. It was a clip
type link and it broke just one side. I checked the bike over after a
weekend away and was more than a little horrified to find the broken
link. Don't know how far I'd gone on it.
Also found the old Suzi GS would continually fling the spring clips
off its 620 joining link. It never spat the side link of the chain
off, it was happy enough without the spring clip. I replaced it once,
but it spat the new one off as well so I just lockwired it instead.
Come to think of it, it was a touch dodgey................