New skip tooth chain technology

[Major Taylor Archive]

Could This Be a Breakthrough in Chain Durability?

At Eurobike 2022 was a company claiming to have invented a new bicycle chain design that will triple the wear life compared to conventional chains.

micromobilityreport.com.au

This company claims to have improved chain and drivetrain wear and want to bring back the skip tooth.

 

[SKPC]

Interesting how the tooth drives the short link, not the long one like on old 1" pitch chains.

 

[fattyre]

Lots of vague salesman optimism in that article.

It looks like 1/2 inch pitch or there abouts with every other tooth removed. So the chain wears less, what about the ring and cog? Seems the load is just shifted to those parts. Perhaps there is some benefit, but most likely another way to manufacture more stuff just to sell hyped up proprietary parts that may or may not be available in ten years.