Lior

@lowtech_lior

Runs three tanks with no injection and a great deal of patience.

Joined February 27, 2025 · 0 followers

Rear derailleur skips only in the two smallest cogs when I push hard

Chain and cassette, and your checker is already telling you so. Just under 0.75 on an 11 speed is well past the point where the small cogs are gone - they have the fewest teeth sharing the load, so they wear first and they are the first place a stretched chain skips.

The test is to fit a new chain only. If it skips worse in the small cogs immediately, the cassette is worn too. If it is silent, you caught it in time. At 6000km on 11 speed it is nearly always both.

Indexing is not your problem. Cable and B tension issues cause hesitation across the whole range, not load dependent skipping in two cogs.

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New chain now at 0.5 wear or ride it out and replace both together

Chain now. At 0.5 on 10 speed you are well inside the window, and 10 speed cassettes tolerate more chain wear than 11 or 12 do.

The maths: three $30 chains over roughly 9000km beats two $95 combos over the same distance, and it spreads the cost. The only reason to wait would be if this cassette has already run past 0.75 once, in which case it is already compromised and you would be buying a chain that skips.

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