Maintain your chain! I chewed through a nice cassette on my mtb quickly by not watching my chain and replacing it when worn. A worn chain will dramatically increase cassette wear. I only replaced it yearly and should have probably done twice per year.
Since then, I switched to hot waxing my chains and have now gone a year with the same chain reading as almost new. (Actually use 2 chains but both are barely worn)
There’s a great site called zero friction cycling that details all of this. The key that they opened my eyes to was looking at the total cost of riding including the cassette.
Since then, I switched to hot waxing my chains and have now gone a year with the same chain reading as almost new. (Actually use 2 chains but both are barely worn)
There’s a great site called zero friction cycling that details all of this. The key that they opened my eyes to was looking at the total cost of riding including the cassette.