How To Untangle A Bike Chain

Ever been in the frustrating situation of a knotted chain that won't straighten out?

It's one of those problems that is easy to fix once you know how. Generally, your chain gets knotted when the top half crosses over the bottom half. Simply spread those two knots out and pull the chain back over your derailleur and chainset and the issue SHOULD be solved!

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[jacko]

After not having changed a rear bike tire in over 20 years my 12 year old son and I ran into this same problem. After much frustration we came across this video. Thanks so much! This helped!

[coeal]

THANK YOU
An hour of trying to fix it myself. A half hour of watching useless videos. Your the first to give clear instructions and show how its done.
THANK YOU

[davidswift]

Sir you are indeed a most powerful wizard I proceeded with your enchantment and before my eyes the chain did unwind as a snake returning to its basket. How this was achieved remains a deep mystery to me as I am without your sorcery. Your humble apprentice. David.

[ericajean]

I am so thankful for this video!!! My mountain bike had this problem!! I fixed it myself thanks to you!!!😁😁

[mikaelimran]

Spent an hour trying to fix this never ending puzzle, watched this vid and took me 2 mins

[chronoz.]

I spent like a hour bro im about to stop living voluntarily

[annuradhakumari]

Thnx alot, i remove my bycycle chain tangle in 30 second because of you...i was just cleaning chain after get down it from spike, omg home was 5 km away...God bless you...

[IX_XI]

I literally have had this problem for five months and have not been able to ride my bike, thank you so much you are the best I was looking for DAYS for a video that helped me with this

[salvador]

It happens to me twice. First time it took me about 45 minutes to solve that puzzle. Last night after 5 hours of trying I found your video, trying to copy your moves but I had loop on the top in different way so it didn't work for me and I made it worse 4 loops.But after another 2 hours finally I did it, but I don't know how. For people who are frustrated by this - there is a way to beat it and I think the key is just right moment and to be calm, it just comes like a magic

[michaelshort]

I've watched this video like 10 times and I've gone from 2 kinks to 6 kinks and I'm a guy that can fix stuff.

[wellimmike]

Thank you so much! My BMX chain was all untangled up, and your tip about spreading the loops apart did the trick. Thank you from The USA!, Mike

[webtron]

I sat here for an hour, pulling and tugging and just looking at this chain...less than a minute after watching your video...chain fixed! Thank you!!

[astros]

I’m literally stranded in the middle of no where watching this vid thanks

[samdeckard]

This video is the only one i found that mentioned "you may think you need to push the kinks together to cancel them out, but you should actually spread them out and you may see what you need to do" . Thats exactly what happened. As soon as i heard that i figured it out on my own. And you were right about normally not wanting to turn the bike upside down because it causes this problem, thats precisely how i caused it. Awesome video and much appreciated.

[DougLarsonVideo]

Umm, where were you when I was a kid. I used to take a pin out of the chain to get it back together. Thank you so much!!

[jerrykunz]

Dude, I was messing around with a kinked chain yesterday for at least an hour and gave up. I caught your video today and went back at it - 10 minutes later, it was all good!!! Thanks for the video.

[chickenwing-tz]

Dude you just saved me a trip to the bike shop !! Was gonna get a new chain respect brother cheers 🎇

[dzinyanu]

Don't care about anyone else but this video helped me out. So thanks a lot !

[HeroicKhalid]

Man, thank you so much! You just saved us. We were in the bike store, and no one knew how to fix it until we saw this video.

[davidwilliams]

I am going to have to take my bike to a bike shop to fix this....I had two loops in my chain before I watched this video and now after watching it, I have six tangle loops all jammed together next to each other and I cant figure out which of those loops to unravel more I try to untangle it, the worse it gets....tangle loops keep multiplying.