Right folks ive had a look at this today and here’s a bit of back ground and I would like some help if at all possible? Starting from the top ive a 2013 orange 5 (yes the issue could be im not using 650b wheels) and all has been well up until recently. I haven’t changed anything apart from the chain lube from muc off to finish line… Recently (the last 2 rides) ive had issues where the chain has got completely jammed between the granny ring and the middle ring. Its taken either a lot of brute force (fist time) of taking the chain ring bolts out (second time) to get the chain free.
Ok so setting everything up from scratch. In the middle chain wheel it runs very smoothly up and down the rear cassette. The only slight issue is that it runs a little bit close to the front derailleur at the extremes but this is to be expected running a 3 cog up front and 10 rear. Now then on the granny ring this is where things get bad. If you run the chain so its just kissing the inner edge of the derailleur it seems to run ok. However if you give it just a tad of clearance it seems to want to jump off to the inside. Surely this isn’t right and it should run on the largest cog / smallest chain wheel with no issues? This seems to be exuberated with either slow shifting or going up hill under power (generally when I’m dropping to the granny ring).
Nowthen another thing is that when I select the middle ring it sounds as if the bb bearsings are gone. Its proper rough so im thinking that it’s the chain as without the chain on it all feels smooth. But why would a rough chain cause it to only have issues in the granny ring?
So without starting to swap bits out whats the best method of diagnosis? I never had this problem with sram stuff.
Cheers
Andy