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| May 2 at 10:41 | comment | added | Chris H | @Rеnаud it's hard to say so far, but I'm looking at a bit under 3000km (mainly road but filthy ones a lot of the time) compared to more like 5000 for 9 speed in the same conditions. So that's something like 3/year instead of 2/year. And with the wear seeming to be non-linear, I always leave it a bit longer than I should | |
| May 2 at 10:35 | comment | added | Rеnаud | And what order of magnitude do you get from a chain? (no reference in 11-speed still, I'm still on the chain that came with the bike - Ultegra, around 1300km road, 200km gravel, but I ordered a Linkglide as a replacement, they are quite cheap and it's not a big comittment) | |
| May 2 at 8:35 | comment | added | Chris H | @Renaud KMC X9 for years, so I started using X11 on the new bike. On the 9 speed I tried spending more and the wear was no better | |
| May 2 at 7:12 | comment | added | Rеnаud | Just a curiosity on chain wear, what chains are you using? It's hard to find data online, and the consensus for in-lab tests seems to be that material/coating matters more than the number of speeds. In 11-speed, have you tried the Linkglide chains? They are supposed to be optimised for durability (on my personal experience, the least durable chains/cassettes were the 12-speed ones, but it was on a e-bike used as commuter). | |
| May 1 at 14:05 | history | answered | Chris H | CC BY-SA 4.0 |