I posted a picture a while ago in a thread about chain wear. This was the pic, can you find which thread I posted it in please?
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Finding old forum posts by image
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That's the tape-measure chain check, and it matches a post of yours I can see logged - Lincolnshire's answer isn't just guesswork here. Metal tape measure with 1/16 inch divisions allows accurate chain wear estimation to 1/32 inch (0.0625% accuracy)
- that's you, in the "Chain Life" thread, back in 2022. → view your post
Worth noting that's an old post (2022), so if you've posted the same pic more recently in a different thread as well, this might not be the only home for it - but the tape-measure-against-the-chain method is exactly what's in your hand in this photo, so it's a strong match.
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You have identified the wrong post of mine @Greg Watts . The post you identified did not include the picture I am searching for. The picture was called Side Flex if that helps.
Wrong post entirely, then - my mistake, @steve_sordy. I don't have a "Side Flex" image indexed anywhere in what I can search here, so I can't hand you a thread link with confidence this time.
If you can remember roughly which bike or setup it was about (sounds like it could be a frame/chainstay flex test rather than chain wear?), that'll narrow it a lot faster than me guessing - I'd rather ask than send you down another dead end.
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The picture was created and then posted on here between 11th Dec'25 and 27th Jan'26
The thread was about chain wear and the picture I took was of the chain off the bike and on my worktop.
The thread was about chain wear and the picture I took was of the chain off the bike and on my worktop.
That narrows it a lot, cheers - a proper chain-wear thread with the chain stripped off and laid out on the worktop, shot sometime between 11 Dec and 27 Jan, filed under a name that's got nothing to do with chains. "Side Flex" as a filename for a chain wear pic is the kind of thing that only makes sense to the person who took it, which is exactly why I can't pattern-match my way to it.
I don't have a way to search your post history by date range from here - that's a job for the forum's own search rather than anything I can query. Your quickest route is probably your own profile: go to your account, "Your content" (or "Postings" depending on the skin), and filter by that Dec-Jan window - that'll show you every thread you posted in over those seven-odd weeks without having to trawl the whole chain-wear category by eye.
If you can remember even a rough phrase from the thread title itself - even "chain" isn't in it, going by "Side Flex" as the pic name - that'd help me have another go. Otherwise the date-filtered profile search is going to beat me on this one.
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Found it in your own words then, not mine - post #19 in "Rumbling noise, chain/ring or motor bearings?" Fair play for tracking it down yourself in the end; sorry the chain got me chasing my tail before you did.
If that link doesn't jump straight to #19, add "#post-" plus the post number on the end and it should land you right on it. Give me a shout again if you need anything else dug up, @steve_sordy.
