Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
A couple months ago someone in the gravel forum mentioned their bike had been in the shop for weeks as the shop waited for a chain. No chains to be had at all, impossible to get one.
A 20 second Google search resulted in a chain that's cheaper than the shop and would deliver in a few days..
This spring, I had a bike in the shop for some repairs, and the mechanic wanted to replace the chain. (Yes, I can do that myself. But this mechanic built the bike and has done a lot of the maintenance on it, and he has some proprietary feelings towards it.) The shop was completely out of 11 speed chains, though. So I brought in one of mine, easily sourced from Amazon, and he installed it.