Timeline for How to prevent my chain from breaking?
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| Nov 2, 2011 at 13:23 | comment | added | ChrisW | This is a new bike. I commute on it daily and want it to run well. | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 12:37 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | It's up to you. But a bad drive train is like the proverbial frog in a pot. It slowly gets worse and worse without you really noticing until you're suddenly left in the middle of a 100 mile ride with no gears. | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 11:57 | comment | added | Brian Knoblauch | I figure by that point that I'll want a whole new drive train anyways. Of course, with my luck, that's not been an issue yet either. The newer bike has a nice expensive drive train that's lasting forever, and my dirt cheap beater bike that's a billion years old and with about as many miles on it is also lasting forever. Obviously if you've got something broken it should be fixed, but I really question a lot of the tribal wisdom in regards to preventative maintenance. I wonder how much of it is really just to make the rider feel better for having done it? | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 11:50 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | Of course, not replacing your chain when stretched will destroy the sprockets, and eventually your shifting performance will deteriorate or chain suck will become a problem and you'll have to replace the entire drive train. It's a choice. | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 11:47 | history | answered | Brian Knoblauch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |