Worn Chain

Jack1996
Jack1996 Posts: 9
edited December 2012 in MTB workshop & tech
Just been to my local cycling shop and they have told me that I need a new chain, cassette and middle chainring. However, I see very little wear on both my cassette and the chainring, I have had this bike a year and have NOT replaced the chain before and I have done about 1200 miles on it offroad. Do you think I need to change all what they say or wait till the summer? Also the gears are skipping and I have tuned them once this month already is this due to the chain or my dodgy tuning?

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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    First clean the cables and set the gears again.

    If that doesn't work, change the chain.

    If that doesn't work, change the cassette and chainring too.

    But change IMMEDIATELY if the new chain fails, as you don't want it to wear to the old parts.
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    My opinion, but I don't even bother to try and clean cables. Buy SP41 outer by the metre, half a dozen stainless inners at a time, and just replace them, costs a few £'s.
    They always fray when you take the crimp off anyway.
    99.9999% of all shifting problems, if they can't be sorted with 30 seconds of adjusting, are cruddy cables. Proven, actual real statistic.
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