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The CdA I'm looking at comes with 2x10 gearing though. All my mountain bike are 1x10 or 1x11 and I love it, I guess 2x10 gives the range needed for all-day climbs as well as road descents (put a 24t chainring on my 1x10 Krampus for that very reason, low gear of 24-36... nuts)
What sort of riding have you been doing to knacker it? And do you mean 300k or 3000k? Because I think a derailleur wearing out after 3000k isn't unreasonable if you've been riding a lot of wet gritty trails... wet grit will destroy anything - mechs, headsets, BBs.
Any other negatives, durability and gearing aside?
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Because I think a derailleur wearing out after 3000k isn't unreasonable if you've been riding a lot of wet gritty trails... wet grit will destroy anything - mechs, headsets, BBs.
Indeed, it seemed a lots quicker if your previous bike were a fixed wheelers (I kept forgetting how long they last for in comparison).
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The type of riding? Mostly Road wet dry mud track mulch a lot of leaf mulch all weathers for the commute and then standard issue club rides in the West Country. So yeah as I have discovered component shagging conditions
The stock wheels are crap and the tyres were great for dry gravel towpaths (fancy that) but not much else. The saddle not for me.
But I still like it. A bike that tries to do everything is always gonna be a compromise but I've ridden very challenging rocky MTB terrain no problemand not been humiliated to badly in a hill climb event against people with the right kit
It can take mudguards & racks even on the carbon fork, yeah all in all useful as a packhorse.
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Alf0nse
Been riding a CDA since April
It's comfy but not great
Needed to replace the rear mech after about 3000km as well as headset and BB.
I chose to improve the wheels with Kenesis Crosslights and Bontranger AW1 which got it down to about 10kg. Put a fabric scoop saddle on it as well.
The ersatz "1x" gearing doesn't give enough coverage on descents so you will be spinning out. Mine is prone to throw the chain on long fast downhills too
The single ring gearing sort of works but after riding for a couple of hours you will lose the full range of the cassette.
It's my first proper bike in 20 years so admittedly I am a bit clueless, but I was surprised that the Genesis warranty didn't cover any of the parts that broke BB - Headset (ok I now know that nobody covers those) and rear mech (Genesis pointed me to the shop or SRAM) . In the mind of the company that built it, this is not a bike for serious use even as a commuter. My usage was regarded as "excessive".
All in all its my bike I like it, I have invested time and money into it but I wouldn't buy another