Thanks Billy. I have seen most of the clips but it seems to me that there is some design incompatability with the components fitted to the T3. The chain set is pretty much the only thing I have not upgraded now. The original is clearly fabricated from poor quality metal and I think I will upgrade before wasting more time on the derailleur. Did you order a specific size? ie crank length and number of teeth per ring or just take what comes?
SNSSO. I have Fulcrum Racing 7s and am very pleased with them but I cannot claim to have given them a lot of hard work so it remains to be seen how durable they are. The SRAM PG850 Cassette and KMC X8-99 Silver chain are a nice combination.
thanks - I hope they last slightly better... just reassembled my wheels. now to clean the bike before anything more.
Chain - just needs to be 8 speed. I went with a KMC Z51 chain which has been fine. I just have to remember it is not silver and therefore no amount of cleaning is going to get it to be silver.
I have had KMC Z51 chains before and used them on my tourer with rohloff hub and got over 14,500km (9,000 miles) from mine and around 9,500km from my OH's (oil leak killed it faster than it should have done) so am plenty happy with them. SJS sell them very cheaply without the quick link so make sure you either have a spare quick link or buy the more expensive version of the same chain that comes with a quick link.
