NOT BIG NOT CLEVER

while travelling to work along the motorway, as i slowed to come off the slip road i felt a vibration on the bike. i then pulled over at a garage, i inspected the bike and found to my amazement that i had lost the one side of the chain link after a closer inspection i found the chain had a split link and a part had fallen out leaving me and the bike mm from disaster. How the chain didnt come apart i will never know, i have since changed the link to a rivet link so it is now one piece. My question is should bikes over 600cc be running chains with spit links or was i unlucky when having this fitted at  garage ...fozza...

Interesting question.

I'd use a split link on my pedal bike, but wouldn't be entirely comfortable with having one on my Thundercat.

(I fixed all my pedal bikes myself when I was a kid...you know, before they started throwing the whole bike in the bin and buying a new one   , and the clips on the split links did get a bit rattly after a while. (And that was with far less mileage or load)


Damn close call you had there I reckon.  

it was 5 am road empty i wasn't hanging about ,my own fault after having chain and sprocket fitted didn't think i'd have to check there work after.safe to say never using this garage again.

In days gone by the link was the only way to fit a chain, these days it's only OK on smaller powered bikes. It's academic now but the clip should have been fitted rounded end towards the direction of travel.
Very lucky there!