New chain and cassette

mcowan77
mcowan77 Posts: 560
edited October 2013 in Road buying advice
Ok

Checked chain this morn with chain wear tool... 1% wear...

Do I change the chain and cassette or as its my winter bike just run both until they are really done

Prob done about 2.k miles on both

Cheers

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  • diamonddog
    diamonddog Posts: 3,426
    Just use them. :)
  • mcowan77
    mcowan77 Posts: 560
    That's wot I'm thinking
  • diamonddog
    diamonddog Posts: 3,426
    Loads left in them yet.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Since you've got to 1% wear it's best just to keep going till it starts to skip. Then replace both, and hope the chainrings haven't suffered too much.

    I replace my chains at 0.75% wear and have got 6000 miles out of the cassette so far. Maybe it would've been cheaper doing it your way...
  • gloomyandy
    gloomyandy Posts: 520
    keef, how many chains so far (in your 6000)? Is this all year round riding? Just rtying to work out how my chain usage compares...
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    gloomyandy wrote:
    keef, how many chains so far (in your 6000)? Is this all year round riding? Just rtying to work out how my chain usage compares...

    I think if you exclude a brief trial of a suspiciously cheap Mavic 10 speed chain which sounded like a bag of spanners, I think 4 Shimano chains so 1500 miles a pop. Year round riding, some quite shitty roads in the winter, but with proper mudguards.

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