Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Had a wtf? this morning - Ping AMuzi Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:46:00 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:46:03 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4507f9d359dccde9c35b5653d4f1fc8f"; logging-data="665033"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/HXC5VsWkftWXYQ728X2l0+6Uee72/8pg=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:h0LIBuiKaM2ECEqNUvi2tZeQNas= Bytes: 2265 On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:17:28 -0300, Shadow wrote: >On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:42:10 -0500, Catrike Ryder > wrote: > >>On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:28:41 -0600, AMuzi wrote: > >>>Given that it was well used, could well have been just >>>overall wear. You set the low gear limit back when it was >>>less worn, but now all the pins and pivots are sloppy. Only >>>takes a couple of millimeters more travel to go from normal >>>clearance to engaged on a spoke. >> >>Thanks for that expert opinion. Makes me feel good about having >>changed out my old derailleur at just under 35,800 miles. > > Thar's 57000 kilometers. Don't think many people have ridden >that far in their lives.... > Mine had quite definite signs of wear, though nothing was >loose. > []'s I didn't see any wear on it other than the jokey sprockets. That was the first 13 years worth on the Catrike. Now I'm at 40,000. I suspect that 40,000 miles is not that unusual for the RBT crowd. Hardcare riders, they seem to be. -- C'est bon Soloman