What's the consensus on clip type master links?
snapped chain and you stranded or worse.
I'd imagine it'd do a hell of a lot of damage if it let go at speed. Has anyone here had a chain fail?
Had one go on my Kwak Turbo. Accelerating out of a motorway service station, saw another bike go past who gave me a nod, thought it'd be nice to ride with a bit of company for a while. So I accelerated hard to catch up. Just as I got to about 90 in the fast lane, revs suddenly dropped and lost all drive. WTF?!! So clutch in, pulled over to hard shoulder, and just as I came to a stop, all the oil went whumpf! all over the road! Chain had caught on a badly welded part of an a/market guard I'd recently fitted. It flew forwards, smashed the air filter casing (which was outboard of the front sprocket on these), smashed the gearshift cover. And all those little bits of metal promptly got sucked straight through to the turbo unit, chipping all the vanes! Lovely
Of course, another situation that could've been much worse. At 90, it doesn't bear thinking about what may have been if the chain had wrapped itself round the rear wheel...
Actually, not sure if that was rivet or split link.