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I'm hoping you wise folk out there may be able to help me. I have what I know is a nine speed chain, but I cant be sure of the maker, the only marking on it is C9, it's a good few years old (given very good service). I may have got it from Mercian when I bought the frame an a good few of the parts to build it, F/R meck's & cassette are all campy, but this was about 10yrs back.
A Sram 951 although a 9 speed seem a tad wider and keeps catching. Photo inclosed may help ( not the best sorry). Any help welcomed.

Campagnolo 9sp chain.
And a damned fine chain it is too.

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/road-t ... 0000000000

eddie wrote:

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I'm hoping you wise folk out there may be able to help me. I have what I know is a nine speed chain, but I cant be sure of the maker, the only marking on it is C9, it's a good few years old (given very good service). I may have got it from Mercian when I bought the frame an a good few of the parts to build it, F/R meck's & cassette are all campy, but this was about 10yrs back.
A Sram 951 although a 9 speed seem a tad wider and keeps catching. Photo inclosed may help ( not the best sorry). Any help welcomed.

Campagnolo Record C9 Chain

http://www.treefortbikes.com/product/33 ... Chain.html

IIRC campag 9s chain is slightly wider than SRAM 9s chain, so if you have a fault with the SRAM chain, it probably isn't the width per se, it may well be another unrelated fault of some kind (a bad link maybe?)

cheers

Thank you both, I did go through every link on the Sram none tight or sticky, to the eye the connecting plates of the Sram seem to bulge a bit, not so much that it actuley wider, but when I put the old chain back on to try it, the problem went, I liked the certainy that it was a campy record and from the photo in the link they look exactly the same. again thanks to you both for your help, it was doing my head in

And Mick too yes this one has lasted forever,well so long I'd forgotton where I bought it

They aren't cheap, but the quality and longevity give you value for money.
I retired my last one at 7,500miles when I went over to 10sp. It still had miles left in it, maybe could have gone another thousand or more.

Mick F wrote:Campagnolo 9sp chain.
And a damned fine chain it is too.

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/road-t ... 0000000000

I am using one on my 9 speed Shimano equipped Genesis Equilibrium with very good results after some very slight roughness in the changes for the first couple of hundred miles.