Is this chainring wornout?

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JackStraw

Active Member
Hi All,
Is my chainring worn out?
I have a jumping/skipping chain under load or uphill on some gears.
The chain and cassette has been replaced but this didn't resolve the issue, has helped slightly.
I found that clean chain with little to no lube is much less likely to skip. I mean it's pretty obvious but just wanted to add.

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Thanks
 

EckyH

It wasn't me!
I think it's worn out, because the teeth - especially in the first picture - are shark fin shaped already.
So the effective distance between two adjacent teeth is bigger than the distance between the rollers of a new chain which leads to the skipping you described.

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mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
A lesson about CC that I learned long ago: If you post a picture of a bike or bike part without cleaning it to death first then you will get more comments about the fact that it's dirty than you will about the subject of your post.
Hey, at least nobody posted "chain's slack"!
 
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