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@hippy
Finally found the source of my shifting issue on the new Kinesis. No, it wasn't my dodgy indexing skillz, the fucking chain was dead! I changed the stem this morning so thought the slight drop in bar position had messed with the indexing again. Tweaked it while riding = no difference. Got worse climbing up Pent thingie and skipped all the way to work. Reindexed from scratch in work carpark until I was happy it was sweet. Then spun up and down the carpark changing gears until.. argh fucking skipping again! Thought "ooh might be a stiff link" and watched it while spinning pedals backwards. Sure enough, one of the links buckled when spun over the cog. Gotchya! But then wiggled all the links and none were stiff. WTF?! Then wiggled them all again side to side...
PING!
Motherfucker. Bike now in shop getting new chain fitted.
Fuck you KMC!