[Billy]

Hey Alex,

Five inches of free play on a chain???? Dude if it's that loose it would have flown off. Did you mean half an inch?

What I usually do is I have 1 inch of free play on the chain. Basically you push on the lower chain that is going towards sprocket in the middle of that segment, and push up and down. Measure how much it moves.

When I put my new chain on my bike last summer I think i had to make a slight adjustment a week or so after I installed it. Probably because the chain got broken in.