£6.99 if price matched and collected via Evans Cycles
£11-£11.99 in most other places.
Hopefully this is a deal and others with some improved bike knowledge will most likely certify that. You need to spend £20 to get free delivery, however....
I got one from Evan's Cycles using their price match (in-store) but I believe you can do it online too. (virtual voucher)
£6.99 for a decent chain seems a bargain to me, plus lots of cassettes seem to be on sale too.
For some spiel - The SRAM PC850 8 Speed Chain is a great value replacement chain compatible with both 7/8 speed road and MTB systems. Features the easy to use Powerlink connection which can be opened and closed with no tools.
All comments (20)
uptwisting
1 Sep 16#1
Cheers to whomever updated the title to include the Wiggle delivery.
I probably should've learned that lesson by now!
I just got a discount code to get one online too (I price matched yesterday) so I guess if someone wanted it I could give it them for a quick way to order online at Evans and get it delivered to store if there's no immediate stock locally.
Pateo
1 Sep 16#2
can these chains be used for any type of geared bike? I have very basic knowledge of bike maintenance, the chain on my bike when I peddle slips or Jolt's intermittently when i peddle, I have to leave in same gear position, can't remember what number, this stop's the slipping. Just wanting to know if I replaced with new chain it would cure the problem? Thanks in advance.
uptwisting
2 Sep 161#3
I had limited knowledge until a few days ago.
Slipping could be any number of reasons, apparently, but two culprits are the chain stretching or the teeth on the rear cassette (the thing with lots of cogs) wearing away.
Both need to be changed in order to keep wear to a minimum, plus a stretched chain doesn't work so well on a new cassette.
The way to know what chain you need is to count the cogs on the rear wheel. Mine had 8, and this is for an 8 speed mountain bike so it fits. Might work for 7 too, not sure.
I chose this one too because it's easy to unclip if you need to take it off.
Cassettes are about £11-£15 but you need to make sure you're getting one that fits your bike. As I understand Shimano and SRAM are fairly interchangeable. But then you also need a tool to remove the cassette as it's a lock nut. This is an example of the two tools.
Nothing is particularly expensive and I guess worth the effort having simple tool but some places will refit parts for a donation. I know that is the case in Birmingham and Brighton.
MAdam98
2 Sep 16#4
The perils of freehubs/freewheels...
whatyadoinsucka
2 Sep 161#5
An OK price I prefer kmc chains though as they work on sram, shimano and campagliA and also come with a quick link ..
8 speed is a getting to the point of redundant for the majority of new bikes 10 speed has been the standard forhe last few years, being taken over by 11 speed and soon to be 12 with the sram eagle
uptwisting to whatyadoinsucka
2 Sep 16#6
Thanks very much for this info, I saw some KMC ones but I didn't read many glowing reviews (no bad ones either) whereas I read loads of good SRAM ones, plus my cassette is SRAM.
Interesting to know I'll soon be on a redundant bike, may have to grab some parts though perhaps I should just think about an upgrade....after I buy a kayak that is...
whatyadoinsucka
2 Sep 161#7
I'm sure 8 & 9 speed will continue for the foreseeable, it's just likely product offerings will remain limited to the lower specs in the shimano artillery, as the boundaries are pushed into bigger cassettes with ever more levels of gears, SRAMs eagle option of a 12 speed cassette is that expensive us mear mortals would have to save forever to buy.
I'm currently running a 2x10, 3x10 and a 1x11 on my bikes
The KMC x93-10 are great quality for 10 speed and at the £16 mark, pretty much the defacto choice. The main difference on all these chains is width, the more gears/cogs on the cassette the narrower the chain to operate
thel33ter
2 Sep 162#8
I've only ever snapped SRAM chains (3 of them, and I weigh ~9 stone), always used KMC on my bikes since, with the exception of the odd Shimano one. Definitely lots of old 8 speed kit still around.
fatreg
2 Sep 161#9
12 is also reserved for mtb at the moment. Not sure why though, road were the first to get 11.
Worth nothing, as it's hasn't been explicitly said, 8 speed chains will work with 9 speed systems, the internal sizes (of the chain) are exactly the same,
chazphot to fatreg
2 Sep 16#17
12 is reserved for mtb because of 1x drivetrains (only one chainring upfront) so having extra gears at the back is beneficial where most road bikes have 2 chainrings so effectively 22 gears with 11 speed. Wouldn't surprise me if 12 speed made its way to the road too though, innovation for innovations sake.
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Opening post
£11-£11.99 in most other places.
Hopefully this is a deal and others with some improved bike knowledge will most likely certify that. You need to spend £20 to get free delivery, however....
I got one from Evan's Cycles using their price match (in-store) but I believe you can do it online too. (virtual voucher)
https://www.evanscycles.com/sram-pc850-8-speed-chain-00102422 - for the Evans product.
£6.99 for a decent chain seems a bargain to me, plus lots of cassettes seem to be on sale too.
For some spiel - The SRAM PC850 8 Speed Chain is a great value replacement chain compatible with both 7/8 speed road and MTB systems. Features the easy to use Powerlink connection which can be opened and closed with no tools.
All comments (20)
I probably should've learned that lesson by now!
I just got a discount code to get one online too (I price matched yesterday) so I guess if someone wanted it I could give it them for a quick way to order online at Evans and get it delivered to store if there's no immediate stock locally.
Slipping could be any number of reasons, apparently, but two culprits are the chain stretching or the teeth on the rear cassette (the thing with lots of cogs) wearing away.
Both need to be changed in order to keep wear to a minimum, plus a stretched chain doesn't work so well on a new cassette.
The way to know what chain you need is to count the cogs on the rear wheel. Mine had 8, and this is for an 8 speed mountain bike so it fits. Might work for 7 too, not sure.
I chose this one too because it's easy to unclip if you need to take it off.
Cassettes are about £11-£15 but you need to make sure you're getting one that fits your bike. As I understand Shimano and SRAM are fairly interchangeable. But then you also need a tool to remove the cassette as it's a lock nut. This is an example of the two tools.
Nothing is particularly expensive and I guess worth the effort having simple tool but some places will refit parts for a donation. I know that is the case in Birmingham and Brighton.
8 speed is a getting to the point of redundant for the majority of new bikes 10 speed has been the standard forhe last few years, being taken over by 11 speed and soon to be 12 with the sram eagle
Interesting to know I'll soon be on a redundant bike, may have to grab some parts though perhaps I should just think about an upgrade....after I buy a kayak that is...
I'm currently running a 2x10, 3x10 and a 1x11 on my bikes
The KMC x93-10 are great quality for 10 speed and at the £16 mark, pretty much the defacto choice. The main difference on all these chains is width, the more gears/cogs on the cassette the narrower the chain to operate
Worth nothing, as it's hasn't been explicitly said, 8 speed chains will work with 9 speed systems, the internal sizes (of the chain) are exactly the same,