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What am I doing wrong with my drivechain? Swapped chains over yesterday. The chain I removed had been on for a couple of months, it had more wear than the chain (admitted not a brand new chain) I replaced it with. New chain on and it skips under any kind of foot pressure. I can't replicate the skipping off the bike by hand turning. The only time it doesn't skip is when in big chainring and largest few sprockets at the back. In the inner/smallest combo it is skipping more than engaging. So the smaller the cogs, the more the skipping.
I had the same problem a while back and figured it was the cassette, replaced that and skipping stopped. The cassette is only a couple of months old this time so I can't understand that it could be that this time? It is 52/34, 11/34 so there isn't much wiggle to remove chain links also.