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@105champ
bit of advice please all. I've two ss bikes. one old dawes galaxy conversion for pootling around and a condor pista (bout 3 years old), both running fixed.
I trashed the condor yesterday, did a pretty stiff hill climb for about 10 mins and about 15 minutes later doing about 25mph the chain came off, wrapped round the sprocket and came to a skidding halt with the right chainstay pulled about 1.5" to the right and big crimp in chainstay. Condor say it's unrepairable.
Have i just been bloody unlucky, as i've done similar climbs on the galaxy and have not had any probs, or is over stressing the bike on hill climbs a surefire route to a similar problem.
Upside is, it's time to buy a new bike!