Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I agree with bending it back. A friend dropped his chain and it was skipping. In that case, it was a tight link. I just twisted it back and forth a couple of times and it freed it up. He's probably still riding on that chain.
Yikes! For a barely bent chain (where a link is tight) that doesn't sound too bad, but one like mine where a link was bent almost 30 degrees, bending it back would never get it back into its exact original shape, and riding on that would most definitely harm the entire drive train.