LevoRoboto
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I have a 2021 Levo Comp - I bought it at the end of August. Today’s ride was absolutely amazing. At the end of the ride I was hammering on a road to return to my car. I noticed the chain was skipping even though I was in 12th gear. This ruled out an indexing issue.
I inspected the cassette and found gears 11-12 are worn out. The weird thing is most of my previous five rides have been super technical with most of the time spent in gears 3-9.
I stopped by my LBS and the said it’s better to set the gear index to avoid those gears entirely. These guys are not a Specialized dealer, (I wish they were), and had nothing in stock to sell me.
I ordered a XT CS-M8100 in 10-45T for lack of a better plan. I am thinking I’d like to go back to 9 or 10 speed for better chain and gears, but this is going to get expensive. Hell, if I do that why not go mullet at the same time?
Total miles is less than 100. Does going back to 11 speed make a difference on drive train durability? Since gears 11 & 12 are blown, I don’t see how fewer gears will help. Right now, I think Shimano had a bad batch of steel, hence my XT order.
Going from 51 to 45 should not be an issue for the derailleur, or will it?
I inspected the cassette and found gears 11-12 are worn out. The weird thing is most of my previous five rides have been super technical with most of the time spent in gears 3-9.
I stopped by my LBS and the said it’s better to set the gear index to avoid those gears entirely. These guys are not a Specialized dealer, (I wish they were), and had nothing in stock to sell me.
I ordered a XT CS-M8100 in 10-45T for lack of a better plan. I am thinking I’d like to go back to 9 or 10 speed for better chain and gears, but this is going to get expensive. Hell, if I do that why not go mullet at the same time?
Total miles is less than 100. Does going back to 11 speed make a difference on drive train durability? Since gears 11 & 12 are blown, I don’t see how fewer gears will help. Right now, I think Shimano had a bad batch of steel, hence my XT order.
Going from 51 to 45 should not be an issue for the derailleur, or will it?