Originally Posted by
Scooty Puff Jr
Why do you change out your chain so often ? If I changed out my chain every 500 miles, I would be replacing a chain every month ! I've been a avid rider for 35 years, and I have always got 4000 to 6000 out of a chain, and basically I always needed a new cassette because a new chain would skip.
I have almost 8,000 miles on my Fuji Crosstown, I replaced the chain and cassette at around 4500 miles because the chain would start to skip once in a while on hard hill climbs. I clean my chain once a week, I'm a weekly maintenance type person, and always keep my bike clean.
To each his own, but I will ALWAYS change the cassette when replacing the chain.
I have to.. My usual rides are Hilly gravel roads like in the Ozark and some parts of Wyandotte, OK Mountain where I get 1000feet of elevation gain for every 10miles and i also doing a once a month century riding/touring. I know my chain always eat up dust and dirt. WIth my bike converted in to 1X of 42t chain ring, the chain always snakes in to the last 3 biggest gears of my cassette. Imagine the stretch.
Last March, I have to get rid my new chain after just using it for 60miles. The reason.. Oklahoma LandRun100.