Hi all,
Must be me then!
I do ride my bike in a way that could lead to faster wear in my transmission and for me it is the top gear cog that starts to be troublesome rather than any of the others.
I just use my bike to get me to work and back and this often involves a 13 mile predominantly off road route to work on the sandy tracks of Surrey that inevitably gets everything dirty however clean it starts before a 10 mile road trip home in mostly top gear.
I probably do around 100 miles a week when I am working and rack the miles up quite quickly and am probably getting a reasonable mileage out of my cassettes before I change them when I think about it.
Like Eddie I view chains and cassettes as things that are going to wear out and need changing.
With the thunder storms I went in the car today and it made me realize that I had not done so for months and that 10 miles is quite a long way. It also made me appreciate how fantastic my sDuro yamaha is to enable me to do the journey every day (I work a 4 day week) on a bike carrying a quite substantial 54 year old me and two full panniers.
Must be me then!
I do ride my bike in a way that could lead to faster wear in my transmission and for me it is the top gear cog that starts to be troublesome rather than any of the others.
I just use my bike to get me to work and back and this often involves a 13 mile predominantly off road route to work on the sandy tracks of Surrey that inevitably gets everything dirty however clean it starts before a 10 mile road trip home in mostly top gear.
I probably do around 100 miles a week when I am working and rack the miles up quite quickly and am probably getting a reasonable mileage out of my cassettes before I change them when I think about it.
Like Eddie I view chains and cassettes as things that are going to wear out and need changing.
With the thunder storms I went in the car today and it made me realize that I had not done so for months and that 10 miles is quite a long way. It also made me appreciate how fantastic my sDuro yamaha is to enable me to do the journey every day (I work a 4 day week) on a bike carrying a quite substantial 54 year old me and two full panniers.