View Single Post
Old 06-03-06, 08:03 PM
  #11  
well biked
Senior Member
 
well biked's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 7,487
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 140 Post(s)
Liked 162 Times in 89 Posts
Seems like this thread has veered off course a little.....the OP has a bike that's not a year old, has only 2000 miles on it, and his LBS is saying he needs another new chain and now a new cassette and chainrings. I think either the LBS is trying to take advantage of a customer, or there's something wrong that needs to be determined; he's being told to replace these parts way too quickly in my opinion. Has nothing to do with whether he subscribes to the philosophy of replacing chains often, or just running the whole drivetrain together without changing anything until the whole thing wears out together. His bike simply isn't old enough or well used enough that it should need a new cassette and new chainrings, at least based on my experience. And the fact that he will soon be on his third chain (original, first replacement, now second replacement), in only 2000 miles, seems suspect.
well biked is offline