Surely all lovers of long bike rides will happen at least once to break the chain of his mountain bike. I am not a great lover of the bike because I was young cultivated other passions, I’ve had to repair several times the chain of mountain bike of my cousins who loved this sport.
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The first thing to do is to look at what kind of shirt has our mountain bikes to repair. Many chains have to mesh that you can open and close quickly. In these cases, just open the shirt, place and seal. All very simple. The problem has when we have to replace a mesh of that to the closed type because it serves a special tool called laddered chains to open the chain and to make the replacement.
- Let’s see the simple things. First, we put the chain on the rear sprocket and smaller diameter for the chain is not too tight. We insert it unravels chains on any one pin that holds the mesh, and we tighten until this pin pops out. Just made this unscrew it unravels chains, and we can remove the chain. The easy part is done.
- Now on the new chain on the crown and pinion diameter greater without passing it in the pulley gear bringing together the two ends in a circle to get the precise measurement. Add the meshes that serve to false mesh (usually two or one of the false meshes). If the chain is longer the notice with the chain unravels. At this point, we must proceed with the installation.
- This time we bring convenience for mounting the chain on the rear sprocket and the smaller diameter so that this is not too tight. Let’s slide well for the chain to the derailleur and for the exchange. Did this not just have to close the chain. Sometimes you have a false mesh which is much easier to quit because you just insert it and close it. In most cases, the mountain bike chains that have prepared a fixing pin. In order to close the chain just connect the two ends of the chain (mesh internal and external link) and insert the locking pin. The locking pin is fastened this time screwing with the chain unravels. Once finished screwing, we play one last operation. We must break with a gripper part of the pin that protrudes from the chain. If we did everything right we should be able to mount up and ride to ride again.
