What is hard anodizing and why do I need it?
Hard anodizing is a process that the sprockets go through that nearly doubles the strength and life of the sprocket. It puts a very hard surface on the sprocket. The coloring of this is a dark gray, but lately many manufacturers are adding dye to make them pure black or colored. 2. What color are afam sprockets? All afam sprockets are a dark gray in color. NONE are black in color. What happened is that one importer repackaged them in a packaging that says Drive Systems and AFAM on the packaging and many dealers got this confused and assumed that the black ones were afam when in fact they are not. If you read ON THE SPROCKET it will say afam if it’s afam. 3. Do you sell any non hard anodized sprockets? No we do not. We want our customers to buy a chain kit, use it for thousands and thousands of miles and not worry about something going wrong with it or having it wear out early. We only sell hard anodized sprockets since it only costs a little more to get a sprocket twice as hard and one
