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Cycling app of the week: Chain Length Calculator
What is it?
Chain length calculator does nothing more and nothing less than working out what the length of your chain should be, expressed in number of links. You can use cm or inches to input your chainstay length (you should always be able to find this out on your bike manufacturer's website inventory or in the manual it came with), and then add your outer chainring size and number of teeth on your biggest cassette ring and hey presto, it's done.
What makes it unique?
The simplicity more than anything - although there are plenty of similar calculators you can find on websites with a quick Google, but this saves you a bit of typing once you've got the app and it doesn't really take up any space on your phone.
How can it help me?
It works out how long your chain needs to be of course! While you can just go by the "big big and add two links" method, this takes out any estimations whatsoever and makes life that little bit easier if you're not confident of getting it spot on.
Where can I get it?
Unfortunately for iPhone owners this app, which can be downloaded here, is Android-only... but we've found one very similar on the iOS store here.
Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
Cursed him.
Although in that case I think they literally meant there was a grippy road surface over the little bridge.
Earlier this year a 26 tonne HGV struck the underpass and the driver failed to stop...
May mean the GC riders taking it a bit easier to avoid a Valverde 2017 incident? Don't want your Tour over before it's started.
Never wear anything under cycling shorts with a pad....
This would be so much securer than my existing set up. Seriously considering buying them.
Kent too
Plus (or minus, depending on which way you look at it) you could eBay the 105 groupset for probably £1400, meaning the whole upgrade would cost you...
...you arrange a load of random crap you found in your garden into the shape of a bicycle and walk around the 'wheels'.
Which is one of the reasons why we need systemic change, before individual change can happen. And that's the f... job of politicians.