Originally Posted by
Weldinpatt
too tight and no good, bearings take a hit oops. Skipping is too slack and stretched, time to fit a new chain before sprocket deformation. Good wrap utilises more teeth, equating to less wear.
Riding style can accelerate wear more rapidly.
Wheelie kings eat chains as does snatching.
The OP hasn't posted for 10 years. He previously posted "I
think I have gotten to the point where I don't benefit much from online discussion because my cycling dilemmas are now easier to solve by direct experiment rather than trying to find the handful of people on the internet that might have tried it before." To me that says "I can't get anyone to agree with my crazy ideas and I can't handle criticism." A great loss to the cycling community.