I recently bought a new SRAM chain and a quick link from Amazon after my chain broke and I had a really nasty fall.
I am lucky I didn’t break any bone. I recovered and now riding again with the new chain.
As I learned recently there are a lot of fake chains sold on Amazon.
Is there a way to tell from the pictures if a chain/quick link is fake?
Here are pictures of mine.
by Aggressive-Sherbet65
6 Comments
Looks legit, but hard to say for sure. If you’re really concerned, I’d recommend buying your parts from a reputable source going forward. Not Amazon.
Looks fake to me.
It is extremely hard to tell from photos of the chain on the bike, usually there are some bigger giveaways on the packaging details.
That said, most of the counterfeiters don’t bother with chains that have hollow pins: much harder to do properly/much more obvious that they’re fake if they make them with solid pins (lol at “Dura Ace CN-HG901” chains with solid pins on ebay… classic). The chamfering on opposing corners of the outer plates is also a SRAM-Eagle-specific detail that is correct. There’s nothing that’s an obviously incorrect detail in your photos.
This looks like my Eagle chains. For whatever reason, SRAM chains seem to be counterfeited less than KMC and Shimano.
The packaging is more of a giveaway. The counterfeits usually have fonts that are slightly off.
Hard to tell from the pictures.
I stopped buying chains off Amazon. I bought KMC X11 SL and Shimano Dura Ace 11 speed chains on three separate occasions and all three times were fake chains. Luckily, I was able to return all three times. I had real ones to compare them to and the fake ones were obvious with bad packaging and poorly made chains.
>from Amazon
Just assume at this point that everything on az is fake