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New chain fitted last week - thought I'd caught it in time but...too late - it skips on the old cassette !
New cassette arrived today (more £££).
In the meantime I put the old chain back on and kept riding. Now I'm thinking, why not get a few more (free) miles out of the combo ?
Only thing I could think of was possible wear to chainrings ? Don't want to have to replace them too.
It's only the middle ring that gets a real pasting. You could throw the old lot back on for the winter and change it all come the spring?
It'll accelerate chainring wear.
Change them sooner rather than later.
Get a chain checker then you can change your chain sooner and your cassette will last longer.
If you run for ages, which you can, you'll replace more. Change often, spend less.
[i]It's only the middle ring that gets a real pasting. [/i]
Yeah. If you ride like a wimmen.
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life in that yet Samurai..
<Sulks in corner>
OK, OK, I'll put the shiny new stuff on and put the old stuff on the [s]pile[/s] mountain in the shed.
Chain checker and replace chain throughout the year.
Keep an eye on CRC and Merlin for deals on chainsets.
Replace in spring with shiny new kit bought at less than RRP.
Sell old stuff on Ebay (I'm joking OK .....)
Consensus is normally ride it into the ground?
Get a single speed. Or a better paid job.
Gat a chain checker as said, change / rotate chain every 300-500 miles or when checker JUST is at .75 reading,and you`ll in long term run cheaper; check websites for offers on chains too and buy several. For info a shimano chain lasted just 500 miles total; on road bikes I swop chain ~700 mile use and get 1000s mile out of cassettes
My drive train is 2 years old, chain& all. Still going strong, though the chain has lost a couple of links.
I change chains at .75 wear & tend to get through 3 before I need to change the cassette
A lot of people not answering the question here!
To the OP - Even though your cassette won't work with a new chain, it'll keep going with the old one for probably about the same amount of time you've already used it for! DO NOT fit the new stuff yet, run the old gear into the ground! 🙂
To the OP - Even though your cassette won't work with a new chain, it'll keep going with the old one for probably about the same amount of time you've already used it for! DO NOT fit the new stuff yet, run the old gear into the ground!
Agreed, nothing to loose, chainrings are cheap enough. Consider 2 chains for your new gear, easy enough to swap (every ride) with speedlinks. Twice the mileage without the 'did I catch it in time/did I change too soon' situation.
Use cheap chains and change often. I put a new chainset on and waited to do the chain and cassette and ruined the middle ring in three weeks of riding
chainrings are cheap enough.
Not if you need all three you must be looking at over 60 quid even shopping around?
If you leave it too long...
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I did some work on a 1948 Raleigh Superbe, that was on it's original chain as far as I could tell
I expect you could tell by the chaincase which had not been beaten to death by some poor mechanic trying to refit it!!