Chain Skipping, Revisited

Micheal Artinda said:

My chain is almost behaving itself.
After some lube, and lots of riding, my chain is improving
It only skips ont the smallest rings on the wheel. It is slowy getting
better, or worse... depending on what it is doing.
Micheal

Mines is getting worse🙁 starting to jump in lower gears🙁

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Micheal Artindale said:

My chain is almost behaving itself.

After some lube, and lots of riding, my chain is improving

It only skips ont the smallest rings on the wheel. It is slowy getting
better, or worse... depending on what it is doing.

That's because the chain is being rapidly worn out by the worn out
cassette (which put all the stress on just one link rather than
spreading it out on several as they wrap around the cassette).

As the chain wears, it gets "longer" (but does not "stretch"😉, so it
matches the profile of the worn out cassette better. And of course,
it's wearing out what's left of your cassette even faster than the
original old chain would since all the tension is focused on that one
tooth.

So in the end, it's not really "improving", just catching a compatible
disease.

Mark "not exactly what you wanted to hear" Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame

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Micheal Artindale said:

My chain is almost behaving itself.

After some lube, and lots of riding, my chain is improving

It only skips ont the smallest rings on the wheel. It is slowy getting
better, or worse... depending on what it is doing.

That's because the chain is being rapidly worn out by the worn out
cassette (which put all the stress on just one link rather than
spreading it out on several as they wrap around the cassette).

As the chain wears, it gets "longer" (but does not "stretch"😉, so it
matches the profile of the worn out cassette better. And of course,
it's wearing out what's left of your cassette even faster than the
original old chain would since all the tension is focused on that one
tooth.

So in the end, it's not really "improving", just catching a compatible
disease.

Mark "not exactly what you wanted to hear" Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame

You really need to change the cassette, the chain and at least your middle
chain ring at the same time.
I don't use my big and little rings that much, last time I changed chain
and cassette only the middle ring needed replacing.

Sniffinvinyl
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Quoted message said:

My chain is almost behaving itself.

After some lube, and lots of riding, my chain is improving

It only skips ont the smallest rings on the wheel. It is slowy getting
better, or worse... depending on what it is doing.

Micheal

Ride a singlespeed..."problem" solved.

JD