Hi,
Fairly new to cycling I've been having some trouble with my bike, took it to a bike shop (fairly big one in city centre) and what they want to do seems a little extreme.
Trouble stared with my front gear (chainset one) cable snapping so I needed to get that fixed. I've also been having a little trouble with my rear gears, it only goes down to about 2 or 3 (1 being easiest, 8 hardest) and it becomes too hard to move the lever to get them any lower.
Anyhows, the man at the shop (who seemed to know his stuff) basically said my chainset and chain things at the back were all worn and is the source of my problems. So he wants to replace them all (comes to ~£50).
The bike itself is a cross between a hybrid and a racer (straight handle bars but thinner than hybrid typers but larger than racer tyres 700x28C) and is only 8 months old.
I cycle to work ~5 days a week and the round trip is ~7 miles. So 8 months is about 32 weeks give or take. 5 days a week tops = 160 trips, so thats a total of ~1100 miles. It is in the city, so I'm changing gears a little more often than if I were to cycle that many miles along contry roads.
8 months / 1100 miles just seems quite a short amount to replace the chainset and the rear chainset (not too sure what thats called). Although I'm new to cycling so I dont really know what I am talking about.
My gears sometimes use to skip, I played with the fine tuners next to the gear levers and managed to settle that down. Hasnt skipped for a while. Only problem was gears were becomming a little hard to change.
Can these sort of things were out with that amount of use / in that time? He didnt really take a look at my rear chainset but he seems to know his stuff well and doesnt come across untrustworthy (he swaped my brakes on warrenty with no trouble when one of the back levers broke)
Here are some pictures
Front chainset with flash
Front chainset no flash
Rear chainset flash
Rear chainset no flash
EDIT: I can definitly see on the front one there is a couple of spiky cog bits on the outside cog that are a little short (comparing to inner cog). Worn enought?
Any help would be great thanks, I'm taking my bike in tomorrow.
Jon.
Fairly new to cycling I've been having some trouble with my bike, took it to a bike shop (fairly big one in city centre) and what they want to do seems a little extreme.
Trouble stared with my front gear (chainset one) cable snapping so I needed to get that fixed. I've also been having a little trouble with my rear gears, it only goes down to about 2 or 3 (1 being easiest, 8 hardest) and it becomes too hard to move the lever to get them any lower.
Anyhows, the man at the shop (who seemed to know his stuff) basically said my chainset and chain things at the back were all worn and is the source of my problems. So he wants to replace them all (comes to ~£50).
The bike itself is a cross between a hybrid and a racer (straight handle bars but thinner than hybrid typers but larger than racer tyres 700x28C) and is only 8 months old.
I cycle to work ~5 days a week and the round trip is ~7 miles. So 8 months is about 32 weeks give or take. 5 days a week tops = 160 trips, so thats a total of ~1100 miles. It is in the city, so I'm changing gears a little more often than if I were to cycle that many miles along contry roads.
8 months / 1100 miles just seems quite a short amount to replace the chainset and the rear chainset (not too sure what thats called). Although I'm new to cycling so I dont really know what I am talking about.
My gears sometimes use to skip, I played with the fine tuners next to the gear levers and managed to settle that down. Hasnt skipped for a while. Only problem was gears were becomming a little hard to change.
Can these sort of things were out with that amount of use / in that time? He didnt really take a look at my rear chainset but he seems to know his stuff well and doesnt come across untrustworthy (he swaped my brakes on warrenty with no trouble when one of the back levers broke)
Here are some pictures
Front chainset with flash
Front chainset no flash
Rear chainset flash
Rear chainset no flash
EDIT: I can definitly see on the front one there is a couple of spiky cog bits on the outside cog that are a little short (comparing to inner cog). Worn enought?
Any help would be great thanks, I'm taking my bike in tomorrow.
Jon.