{"id":2294,"date":"2010-12-25T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T20:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2010-12-25T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T20:17:48","slug":"drivetrain-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"Drivetrain woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/12\/ch276b01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/12\/ch276b01-300x225.jpg\" style=\"width: 203px; float: left; height: 158px\" title=\"chain\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/12\/ch276b01-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/12\/ch276b01-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/12\/ch276b01-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/12\/ch276b01.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After a few issues shifting into big ring and a little chain-suck during my last race I thought perhaps that , even though the current chain hasn&#39;t done that much, I ought to replace it before things got too worn, forcing wholesale replacement of the complete drive train.<br \/>\n\tA quick test ride on the chase has left me in a quandry. I&#39;m getting a little bit of jumping on one cog at the back. Not much, and not on a gear I use that much but still annoying. The alternative &pound;50 on yet another cassette, and the big ring at the front is a bit worn, where to stop? particularly with at least 3 months of winter racing before the international season gets going properly when the bike needs to be in perfect condition..<br \/>\n\tI think Ill just put up with it and replace the whole lot in March, when I put the bow on a bit of a diet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few issues shifting into big ring and a little chain-suck during my last race I thought perhaps that , even though the current chain hasn&#39;t done that much, I ought to replace it before things got too worn, forcing wholesale replacement of the complete drive train. A quick test ride on the chase &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drivetrain woes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","category-kit","category-mountain-biking-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}