How-To Install A Chain
FatTony
- April 07 2009
- 6,927 views
- 38 comments
For the fourth week in a row we are bringing you more bike maintenance tips. This week’s how-to video comes from Epic BMX shop again where Loc Vu shows you how to properly size and install a new chain on your bike.
To size a chain, you will need a chain breaker. These specific tools can be purchased at a bike shop or through a mail order company.
Filmed by Fat. Edited by Daniel Kusenda.
You can also download a .PDF of how to install and remove a chain from the Dan’s Comp Web site.
Park Tools also has a lot of information on different types of chains and links as it pertains to sizing and breaking them.
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April 7th, 2009 at 10:41 am
HI ridebmx. We appreciate the 101 bike repair how tos. But a steve hamiltion style tire slide how to would be way more interesting.
Or how about Fudger showing us how to do that pop out the pool to manual sharp turn to feeble down a rail back into the pool which he did on the old Dirtbros video. That was epic!
April 7th, 2009 at 11:00 am
im not interested the maintnance just looking at that beautifull bike
April 7th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Hahah
April 7th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
if the chain is so tight that you have to pop it on with the cranks, how do you take it off?
April 7th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Come on wheres that BUMBASS john dale trying to sell his scooter products
April 7th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
you dont need a chain breaker to do this?! all you have to do is put the chain in a vice, with the links your going to remove sticking out of one side of the vice, then get something metal thats thin enough to go threw the hole, EX: coathanger, etc. then you push it in as hard as you can, or hammer it, then to put it back in, all you have to do is use pliers and thats it! not that hard, all you have to do is use your brain…
April 7th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
The average kid probably has a chain tool over a vice. But yeah, you can do it with a vice, a hammer, or a pair of pliers…you can also do a lot of things really inefficiently.
April 7th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
its a sick bike!!
April 7th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
you gota ride a bit n let the chain stretch. why would you take off a good chain?
April 7th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
just get a master link instead of dealing with all that pain staking bull with breakers n measuring. they usually come with the chain when you buy it
April 7th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
yeah asian!
April 7th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I WOULD KILL FOR THAT BIKE!!
April 7th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
A bunch of dicks and people off..
April 8th, 2009 at 12:35 am
dude youre cute!
April 8th, 2009 at 12:41 am
dude, you’re fucking hot!
April 8th, 2009 at 12:54 am
buy my scooter products.
lol kidding
but he should do this with the shadow interlock chains!
April 8th, 2009 at 1:16 am
does epic have anyone that know how to put a bike together proper…good thing i learned how to’s by myself…hahaha..a hammer,,nice slab of cement,,a flat head screwdriver and pliers to squeese everything back together the ghetto way…but that was years ago..hahahah
April 8th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
itd be sweet if you could win this bike
April 9th, 2009 at 1:00 am
NEW RULE!!
using the word “EPIC” is dumb.
thanks for your time.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Doesn’t it suck how it’s TIGHT at first, but then after you use it it’s all loose and boring? Ha.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
The master link is the weakest link, and a chain is only as strong as its weakest link..
April 10th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
it would be best to just get a park ct-5 chain breaker for 15 bucks it works great and dosent fuck up ur bike like a dumbass would with a vice
April 11th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
ehh its still as strong as a normal chain link. if anything its slightly weaker but its not any weaker because it has a clip on it
April 11th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
thats what she said….. or what he said, whatever works.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
i have the same problem i but the chain on so thight i cant get it off..any ideas? and cant break it i dont have another chain and im broke
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
i love that frame thats the federal 1066 or the notorious… i forget but federal makes amazing frames
April 24th, 2009 at 11:51 am
i always end up with stiff links when i use my chain breaker so i always use mi master link
April 25th, 2009 at 6:38 am
That rapes my sprocket whenever i do that
April 29th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
lol
April 29th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
teehee!
May 7th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
very nice bike men !!! luv it
May 12th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
I actionaly did this without a chainbraker !!!
May 15th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
How about u just buy a chain breaker and pop the pin out. There only a few bucks
July 1st, 2009 at 1:37 am
small propain tank, lighter to chain it melts off it works and its fuckin sick
July 17th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
a) the master link will definitely be stronger than a link that’s been reassembled
b) don’t you think its weird he only used half the chain breaker? maybe the other half has a purpose?
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October 2nd, 2009 at 4:13 pm
i ordered that frame (notorious in teal) nd they sent me a fitbikeco dehart2 instead coz they run out.
i thought it was a good thing till i saw that bike being built
November 19th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
what kind of frame is that