ukoldschool
Senior Member
Havnt logged in here for ages so thought id give an update.
I bought my S6 new in Aug 2018, with the aim of commuting to an from the station at both ends of my train ride to and from work. during the first year4 that's exactly what I did, and nothing very much went wrong with it. I made a couple of light modifications to it over that time, adding Ergon GP2 grips and end bars, adding a brompton seat pin to push the seat back further (long legs), adding a cheap rack from ali express to make rolling while folded easier (and of course give a platform for carrying things, one day...).
Then I started to ride the 13km from Blackfriars to my workplace in Tooting and back, accidently at first (as there were train problems) but soon on a regular basis mainly for the exercise. This increase in mileage meant an increase in wear and tear, and naturally I changed brake pads (I went for fibrax inserts), and seemed to eat through front wheel bearings meaning new spindles as the cones took the brunt of the wear. I went for the JTEC ones from SJS, but they still gradually come undone and the British weather washes the grease out accelerating the wear, I'm on my 3rd now.
At some point I needed a new chain, and that also mean new rear sprockets (which were worn down to nubs), and I decided to change the standard 13/16 for 12/15 which gives the same gearing as having a 54t front chainring, I find this means I don't spin out on a couple of fast inclines descents, and gives me a higher top end on the rare occasion that I get the wind behind me on a nice flat bit... I'm now at the point where I've covered 10,000 km, and the bottom bracket needs to be replaced (which I will do with a Shimano UN300) as its suffered the same fate as the front wheel bearings...
I switched to SPD pedals about a year ago which makes you feel much more connected to the bike on the longer rides, but I feel this has probably contributed in some way to the bottom brackets demise, trying to race Roadies on the commute..
I tried a set of Kojaks last year, they were great but I suffered 6 punctures in the 6 weeks I had them, so they went in the shed and the Marathon plus went back on.
So in my 10,000km its had:
I bought my S6 new in Aug 2018, with the aim of commuting to an from the station at both ends of my train ride to and from work. during the first year4 that's exactly what I did, and nothing very much went wrong with it. I made a couple of light modifications to it over that time, adding Ergon GP2 grips and end bars, adding a brompton seat pin to push the seat back further (long legs), adding a cheap rack from ali express to make rolling while folded easier (and of course give a platform for carrying things, one day...).
Then I started to ride the 13km from Blackfriars to my workplace in Tooting and back, accidently at first (as there were train problems) but soon on a regular basis mainly for the exercise. This increase in mileage meant an increase in wear and tear, and naturally I changed brake pads (I went for fibrax inserts), and seemed to eat through front wheel bearings meaning new spindles as the cones took the brunt of the wear. I went for the JTEC ones from SJS, but they still gradually come undone and the British weather washes the grease out accelerating the wear, I'm on my 3rd now.
At some point I needed a new chain, and that also mean new rear sprockets (which were worn down to nubs), and I decided to change the standard 13/16 for 12/15 which gives the same gearing as having a 54t front chainring, I find this means I don't spin out on a couple of fast inclines descents, and gives me a higher top end on the rare occasion that I get the wind behind me on a nice flat bit... I'm now at the point where I've covered 10,000 km, and the bottom bracket needs to be replaced (which I will do with a Shimano UN300) as its suffered the same fate as the front wheel bearings...
I switched to SPD pedals about a year ago which makes you feel much more connected to the bike on the longer rides, but I feel this has probably contributed in some way to the bottom brackets demise, trying to race Roadies on the commute..
I tried a set of Kojaks last year, they were great but I suffered 6 punctures in the 6 weeks I had them, so they went in the shed and the Marathon plus went back on.
So in my 10,000km its had:
- 4 sets of brake pads
- 3 chains
- 2 sets of rear sprockets
- 3 front axle assemblies/bearings
- 2 sets of Marathon plus tyres
- 1 x bottom bracket (soon)