SHIMANO HG600 11-Speed Chain

great chain for shimano 5800 group set. they last a long time (maybe 3000 miles?) if you keep it clean and well lubed. I RECOMEND ONLY rock n roll but others may be good too. rock n roll.i change my chain when it is 0.625% stretched. theoretically 0.75% stretched is okay but i care about my bike enough that i refuse to change it at that time.you ask might ask How I measure my chain stretch? buy a pair of calipers, measure distance from center of one chain pin to the center of another chain pin which is x chain pins away. each chain pin is 0.5 inches away from the next chain pin when it comes from the factory. if you measure the distance where x equals 6, the distance should be 3 inches. if you measure the distance where x equals 6, and you get 3*1.0075 inches in distance which equals 3.01875 inches or more, that would be equal to 0.625% stretched. 3.0225 inches would be 0.75% stretched. take 3 independent measurements of the chain where you measure for different values of x and average the stretch % values. buy a park tool chain stretch checker for easy checking of the 0.5% stretch. once it gets to 0.5% stretched, it is time to start checking your chain with calipers once every 500 miles (for me this is once every 3 weeks). if your a bigger heavier guy probably check it every 250 miles. at 3 inches the difference between 0.5% stretched and .75% stretched is only ~0.2 millimeters! this is such a small value! it would be a good idea to measure 12 inches (x=24) because the difference between these percentages results in a more detectable change of 0.8 millimeters! i'm not sure if there are calipers available that can measure a full foot with this kind of accuracy!

I bought this chain to replace the KMC chain that was original equipment on a new Fuji Gran Fondo that I had recently purchased.The KMC chain worked fine but I felt that as the bike had Shimano 105 components, it would be best to use a Shimano chain. Although there is very little noticeable difference between the 2 chains, I feel better knowing that my drive line components are a matching set. The chain runs very smooth and shifts well.

Installed my self with effort. My fault NOT the chain. Over 2K so far and working well

did not come packaged as new and was missing pin to put together. good chain though

Recibido en tiempo y forma.

It's everything they advertised it to be... it's a bike chain! :-)

Liked the quick link...…...no negatives.

It's a good chain and works as expected.