Should I Clean My Chain With Only 200 Miles On The Clock?

Hey Tamas
1000km / 600 + miles on a inexpensive concatenation is pretty impressive, a testament to your chain maintenance government
Simply in my experience the vesture charge per unit accelerate's towards the stop of it's life, small amounts of wear quickly turn into ever large amounts of wear ever more chop-chop and suddenly inside a short ride it's gone

Your ii chain theory and the iii-4000 km (1800-2500 mile) target, is I assume your full expectation for the whole transmission, Cassette and Chain ring? That is pretty much what I accomplished on my CX with XT xi-42, but I used, at least double the amount of chains you lot are estimating, It volition be interesting, please keep us updated

I am very much hoping that the Shimano will be easier on chains than my Bosch CX, less torque and a larger chain band have got to help and early indication's are encouraging, I am currently ownership due east wheel specific, EX1 chains at a very expert toll of £17.00, this is good news considering my EX1 cassette is a pricey flake of kit (£300.00) and at current price's I can buy nearly eighteen new chain'due south for the same cost of the cassette, so it makes no sense for me to exist risking premature wear caused by chain stretch.

For me the cassette is the bulk of the price over fourth dimension so anything that that helps preserve it greatly reduces the overall running cost's.

My personal target is to go 3000 miles (4800Km) from the cassette for hopefully 5 or 6 chains. And so £300.00 Cassette £102.00 in chain'due south total £402.00 or £0.134 pm.