Stripped cog threads
#26
Your cog is slipping.



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Legit. They were hunting gazelles or some shiz. It was quite a few years ago...I had fallen asleep watching TV and when I woke up, I was like "I know these two voices". It was so weird.
#28
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#29
extra bitter

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Tell him he installed a defective cog. Make him somebody else's problem.
By the way, isn't it more likely he cross-threaded the cog rather than just failed to tighten the lockring? Regardless, almost certainly user error.
By the way, isn't it more likely he cross-threaded the cog rather than just failed to tighten the lockring? Regardless, almost certainly user error.
#31
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