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Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £6.95 on Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain review we’re going to look at why it scores 9.1/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 151 products in the Chains category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

8.3

Price

9.9

Reviews

9.1

Overall

9.1

 

Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain reviews

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Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain Specification

Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain specs

Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain
Feature 1

HG technology has chamfered inner plates to optimise shifting performance on HG sprockets

Other Chains found with this feature: 3

Feature 2

Durability is assured through the heat treatment of rollers, pins, and plates

Other Chains found with this feature: 1

Feature 3

Mushrooming of the pins gives unsurpassed side-plate retention, enabling the chain to far exceed the BS/ISO standard for breaking force

Other Chains found with this feature: 5

Feature 4

7.3mm chain width, optimised for 7- and 8-speed HG drivetrains

Other Chains found with this feature: 1

Feature 5

116 links

Other Chains found with this feature: 7

Feature 6

Weight: 335 grams

Other Chains found with this feature: 1

Spec 1

Colour: Grey

Other Chains found with this spec: 3

Spec 2

Option: 116 Links

Other Chains found with this spec: 1

Spec 3

Speed: 6-8 Speed

Other Chains found with this spec: 5

Price

£6.95

Number of Reviews

113

Review Score

4.2 / 5

Average score in category: 4.1

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  • Shimano Altus HG40 6/7/8 Speed Chain. Hyperglide (HG) series 6, 7, or 8-speed compatible chain, recommended for Altus and Alivio/STX drivetrains Features: HG technology has chamfered inner plates to optimise shifting performance on HG sprocketsDurability is assured through the heat treatment of rollers, pins, and platesMushrooming of the pins gives unsurpassed side-plate retention, enabling the chain to far exceed the BS/ISO standard for breaking force7 3mm chain width, optimised for 7- and 8-speed HG drivetrains116 linksWeight: 335 gramsA 2 year warranty is offered with all Shimano products from Chain Reaction Cycles (3 years on Dura-Ace and XTR products) Buy Shimano Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 4524667220343
  • CNHG40116-K

No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Chains.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 151 different products in the Chains category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 954 products from Shimano (although only 19 of the 954 are in the Chains category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Chains. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Shimano. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Chains. There are 151 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 151, the average price is £25.29. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £2.95 and most expensive was £115.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Shimano. The average price was £98.07 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £0.49 up to £2089.99 with Shimano products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Shimano products that appear specifically in the Chains category. So you can see that the price of Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain at £6.95 is great value considering the average price of Shimano Chains is £18.40 and the price varies from £5.95.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £6.95 which represents a £5.04 or 42% saving against RRP. If you think Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Chains too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 113 reviews scoring it 4.2 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Shimano. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Chains category is 4.1 and the average score of products from Shimano is 4.4 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Shimano in the Chains category the average review score is 4.1.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain such a high overall score of 9.1 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 113 reviews for Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain which score it 4.2, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Shimano Altus HG40 6-7-8 Speed Chain or in fact any of the other Chains, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.