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by Too
4931 days ago
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Mud always comes up in these discussions but isn't a real problem. You can get mud, water, sand, branches, snow, grass, gravel or entire bushes into your gears and hardly notice it. Sometimes it feels like the whole forest just wants to go into your gears but in some magical way it always falls out again. The more i think about it the more amazing i think it is, the amount of punishment the powertrain takes is quite remarkable and even though the components are so small and precise they don't take much damage. The only real problem with derailleurs in the forest is when they get hit by a rock, a think branch or the ground. Anything else that doesn't actually bend the derailleur is a non issue. In very very rare occasions something might jam the chain but no changes in the gear are going to fix that. And of course the mud will slowly wear and tear things down by grinding but that's not an issue of the actual gear but more of the cogs and chain. |
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