I'm not sure why you expected different. Department stores have NEVER been a good place to purchase anything bicycle related. Get a chain breaker, knock a link or two out and get down the road man! Chances are, a new chain will be uncut anyway, so it will be even longer than what is already on the bike. Do yourself a favor, go to the local bike shop, get yourself a Park Tool Co. Chain breaker. CT-3 for 3/32x1/2 and smaller chains, and ct-7 for 1/8x1/2.
> As some of you know I picked up an old 3-speed Dunelt bicycle awhile back. So > I > decide I want to ride it around town, and this being Boone there are hills. > Being out of shape I decide to regear the bike. So I order a 22 tooth rear > cog. > It came yesterday and today I put it on the bike. > > The old chain is too short to fit the axle, it will not even reach the slot. > So > I figure a chain will be cheap at Wal-Mart, so I rush out and brave the > Saturday > before Christmas crowd at the the big-box outlet. After fighting my way to > the > back of the store having to detour around people who have not seen each other > since last Christmas and want to have a family reunion in the aisle, actually > at > the intersection of aisles so they can block two at once. This is not just > one > inconsiderate group, there when several unless the were running about the > store > to get ahead of me; being properly paranoid, I would not bet against it. I > get > to the toy department and right there is an empty peg, > > So I run around the store until I find someone in a blue vest. He walks back > with me to the toy department and points to the empty peg and says they are > right there. We go back and forth a bit and it quickly becomes obvious he is > not > going to check to see if there are any in stock, and I leave getting a bottle > of > grapefruit juice that I had been putting off getting because I did not want > to > go to Wal-Mart at this time a year, but that Wal-Mart had for six-bits less > than > the grocery stores, and to me six-bits is a half-days worth of groceries. > > So it is raining anyway, and I can wait until after New Year to get a chain, > or > I can order it off the internet. It is a buck cheaper on the internet, $4.56 > as > opposed to $5.56 but they want $5.00 shipping. > > I know, I know, I should never have kicked that puppy. > > -- > Graywolf > Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com > Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Ben 'Polyhead' Smith KE7GAL -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
