Originally Posted by
CyciumX
The lower your cadence the quicker you burn through a chain on average. I haven't replaced a chain yet on my fancy multi-geared bikes, but when I used the single speed geared @ 50x14... chains came and went 3 times in one year.
Actually it has nothing to do with cadence and everything to do with power output. I'm sure on the single speed you had to up the power and stand to get over hills every now and then, where on a geared bike you can sit and spin. If you kept the same power at 60 cadence as you did at 100, the chain wear difference would be negligible.