Swift65 said:
I just walked out to my garage and un-connected my SRAM connecting link and reconnected it, proving that your beliefs are wrong. I run SRAM chains on all my bikes and if I hadn't gotten such a stinky good deal on my full XTR Blur I would much rather have had SRAM X.O. Why buy DA when you can buy Ultegra for less and in some areas get better gear? Why do so many guys on these boards spend way to much money on stuff they don't really need? I guess it's because they can. The new SRAM groups sound interesting. The price will come down, and who pays MSRP anyway?
I'm glad you could disconnect your Power Link...I'm really proud of you...but perhaps you should have used that time to read one of the articles I originally linked to in which the new Power Lock master link is described:
"The PowerChain has hollow pins, and, like other SRAM chains, a master link, but in this case, the new PowerLock link is not removable. Pippin credits an engineer in SRAM's Portugal facility for coming up with PowerLock and says, "the linking system is always the weakest link, but our 9-speed PowerLink is as strong as the surrounding links. We wanted to do the same with the connector link in our 10-speed chain, but because of the constraints of the narrow chain, we made it a permanent connection."
It locks in by hand like the PowerLink, but if the rider wants to open the chain, he must do so at a different link and then install another PowerLock link to close it up again. The 1070 chain is the base model, the 1090 chain has hollow pins, and the 1090R also has hollow outer plates. "
My beliefs are not wrong. We aren't talking about PC-99 chains or any of the current SRAM chains, we are talking about the new 10-speed chain that is going to be released with the rest of the gruppo. Sorry to sound like a jerk but freakin' A...