Originally Posted by
gecho
What a difference a fresh cassette and chain makes! The original ones had at least 6000km on them and didn't see much maintenance. Holding the new chain up against the old one it was obvious the chain had stretched a lot. I had to keep shifting the chain up as I was measuring it against the new one. I got an SRAM chain with powerlink to make future cleaning easier. The chain whip kept sliding off the old cassette as I was trying to remove the lock ring.
The gears actually shift properly now in both directions.
Most excellent!
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