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Old 11-02-18, 11:32 PM   #10
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Default Re: Is this sprocket too worn?

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Originally Posted by glang View Post
I always think that chain and sprockets wear as a set (logical when you consider that as one item wears the load is transferred onto the next so that wears faster and so on) so if any one component is changed its replacement will just wear rapidly until equilibrium is reached again....
Surely a front sprocket wears around 3 times faster as it has for example 16 teeth as opposed to the rears 40 odd so it each tooth contacts the chain three times for every one of the rears.

Just my take on it.

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