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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.
Alf0nse
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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?