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How many miles on your SRAM Narrow Wide Chain Ring?

Old 11-19-20, 06:38 PM
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How many miles on your SRAM Narrow Wide Chain Ring?

I'm right at 2000 miles and noticed my SRAM chainring is getting a bit noisy (grinding sound).
After I gave the chain a nice soaking and noise is mostly gone.
About how many miles can I expect from a 1X SRAM narrow-wide chainring?
PS: I love my 1X setup.....I have never once dropped a chain.
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Old 11-19-20, 08:20 PM
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I have 6000+ on Rival CX1.

It's my winter - foul weather bike so I change the chain every season, about 1500 miles. I only clean it once in the middle of the winter so I put on 750 filthy miles between cleaning. Chainring and cassette are fine.
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Old 11-20-20, 05:00 AM
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Parts go when parts go, but I'd expect to get a lot more than 2,000 miles out of a chainring. I have a SRAM GX Eagle drivetrain on my Surly Ogre with a 1x Wolf Tooth chainring. 6,000 miles on it so far and still plenty of life left.
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Chainring life depends almost totally on how worn you let your chain get before changing it. Same for cassettes.
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Originally Posted by Kimmo
Chainring life depends almost totally on how worn you let your chain get before changing it. Same for cassettes.
Excellent pont......My chainring was installed with a new chain. I'll measure chain to make sure it is in spec.
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using a worn chain even 100 miles is enough to grind down your chainring and cassette
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Old 11-25-20, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by pullings
I'm right at 2000 miles and noticed my SRAM chainring is getting a bit noisy (grinding sound).
After I gave the chain a nice soaking and noise is mostly gone.
About how many miles can I expect from a 1X SRAM narrow-wide chainring?
PS: I love my 1X setup.....I have never once dropped a chain.
4500 mi + for me on Force 1 and still going strong.

I was very religious about cleaning because I used it to commute on gritty crushed limestone trails.

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Old 11-25-20, 07:03 PM
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i dont use narrow wide , a clutch mech is all you really need , i race and ride on a 39 inner , only ever dropped a chain when i crash or get hit !
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