Its about time to get a new chain and I'm wondering what I should get?
What are the pros/cons of a standard chain over something a little more expensive like the O-ring chains?
What are most of you using?

 

If your ride in the dirt you want an o-ring chain. I don't think you need to spend the money on DID but don't go with a $30 cheapie either.
Dan

 

O-rng all the way - and NEVER pressure wash it! I get about 15,000 miles from a chain and sprockets on my KLX650. I lube it, but never wash it. If you hit the O-ring at the right angle with the spray it can blow the lube out, replacing it with water - not good!

You HAVE to lube a standard chain way more often because the lube is not sealed into the high wear pin area of the chain, where it is sealed in on the O-ring chain. The O-ring chain only needs lube when it looks a bit dry. All you are lubing are the rollers against the sprockets. Not a high wear area, believe it or not. The "stretch" in a chain is the wear on the pins.

 

I appreciate the input, went with the O-ring chain. I figure it will pay off after the many miles its gonna see. It'll be in just in time for the weekend trip to Lake Erie this weekend!!

 

Just make sure it's made in Japan, not China.

 

Names to look for:

RK
DID
Tsubaki
EK

all make a decent middle grade for sure. I think I've been using the off the shelf 120 link RK that the shop carried, DID too when they have them. I grind the rivets to break the chain at the length I need. Use the master link and the only time I've had any problem with a master link on any bike was in 1972 when I most likely put on the clip backward and it got knocked off in rotation of the chain.