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Hi, this is Russ on behalf of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective. Online at slcbikecollective.org.
Also here on behalf of Expert Village and today we're going to show you how to install
a new chain. I'm assuming that you've taken your old chain off. What you're going to need
is to make sure that you acquire the appropriate chain for your bike. Seven, eight and nine
speed chains are all different; they all have different widths, so you might need to visit
your local bike shop to figure out exactly what chain you need for what you have. You're
going to want to take that chain out of the box and go ahead and run on the highest gear
in the back and the highest gear in the front. And what that's going to do is that's going
to allow you to determine how long that chain needs to be. The chain length that comes stock
in the box is not the appropriate length. If you use it in that length, your shifting
will not work very well. So you're going to run it through the top of this one, feed it
through the derailer quickly. After you do that, you just want to stretch it out and
make sure that in that biggest gear that you have up there and the biggest gear here, that
you'll have enough room for that chain to go the entire length. So, in this particular
situation, it looks like we can probably lose maybe two links out of there. You're going
to take this tool right here called the chain breaker and what you're going to do is you're
going to go ahead and just push this pin all the way out that's in here. This tool you
will have to get from a bike shop. There is no other tool that will serve this purpose.
You're going to take that pin all the way out and this particular chain comes with something
called a quick link. And the way that link works is there are two separate sides, they
are identical. You're going to put this one through this side. This one through the opposing
side and you're going to connect these two pieces together. Sometimes this will be easier
if the chain's in a lower gear. If you?re in the higher gear, you'll have to max out
the rear derailer there a little bit which might make it difficult so go ahead and put
it in the low gear there. These two pieces will slide together through a large hole opening
there. After you have those two pieces slid together, you can actually just pull down
on it and that will lock the two pieces together. Once those two pieces are locked together,
you'll be able to install the rest of your shift cables and go through your shifting.