 You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
Hi all,
a mate of mine has just got a Scandal GX build from planet x. Rear mech setup wasnt great out of the box. Ive put in in the stand and set the H/L screws as they were way off. Indexing is set up fine but it runs badly, its noisey and shifts badly. Bike is specced with an slx 12 speed cassette and everything else is eagle gx. I can see that the chain doesnt sit tight on the 51t cog, you can see light between the chain link and the bottom of the casette teeth. Ive just put together an xt 12 speed setup and needed a shimano chain for it to run well. Should an Eagle 12 speed chain run well on an slx cassette? Seems odd that PX speccced the bike this way...
New gear always runs noisy until it runs in. Is this what you mean?
Not really, shifting is a bit painfull, struggles to change quickly at on the bigger gears and on the lower cogs its ghost shifting a bit up and back down. Ive told him to get a hanger alignment tool as i suspect this is the culprit but the chain not sitting right down on the cassette seems wierd..
I have an Orbea Occam with the SLX 12 sppeed cassette. Never been noisy or difficult to change up or down. Only thing was when the bike arrived it wouldn't go into the easiest gear but that was just the cable was a little slack. Once I adjusted that it has been flawless.
It is all Shimano though. I would change the chain first as that may be the easiest and cheapest.
Ive got a new GX chain sat on an xt cassette with exactly zero miles.
In the stand it indexed fine and if anything it shifts better new than GX worn in.
Ill go and have a look and see if there is daylight under the chain on the cassette teeth.
Nope, no light gaps under the teeth.
Runs like you would expect up and down the road too.
Hmm, puzzling. I think we will try a Shimano chain and see how that goes, thanks for the feedback...