I started riding a lot back in May (200 miles/week anyway). Campy Chorus (2014) groupset, BTW.

Most of the time a dropped chain is a rare occurrence. But for the 2nd time now I find myself dropping a chain (when going from the big ring to the little ring) on about half my rides. This lasted a week or two a couple months ago and then it just completely stopped. There never was an obvious adjustment to be done here and it was never clear why it stopped (or started).

Suddenly, after not having dropped a chain in at least a month I have hit 3 of them in the past 10 days. I am guessing that it is shifting habits. It is pretty much always when going from big to small chainring when headed up an incline. My habit when hitting a rise in the big ring that needs the small ring (particularly when coming off a decline) is to pick the RD gear that I want to end up in, and pedal there on the big ring down to 65 or so rpm. Small pause while I shift the FD, and off I go (or not if the chain got dropped). Always to the inside, BTW.

I am guessing that I just need to be more cautious and careful in 'the pause' and not be so quick to resume pedaling. Or maybe it is something completely different.

THoughts/comments? Thanks.

dave