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I live in a hilly place and when biking uphill. Using the smallest gear on the crank and the cassette, the chain skips over some cogs. I identified it is only on that combination (smallest gear on b (social.graves.cl)

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I live in a hilly place and when biking uphill. Using the smallest gear on the crank and the cassette, the chain skips over some cogs. I identified it is only on that combination (smallest gear on both).

I suspect I need to change the cassette, but is there any other alternative path I can take?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

@alvaro @bikewrench I don't think anything is necessarily wrong. The combination bends the chain to the greatest extent possible as it goes all the way left to all the way right, so it's going to be misaligned. Use another equivalent combo with less chain bending.