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@CrazyJames
I'll start with my past two weeks of bike destroying first, and so begins the tale of the disintegrating chain/stripped hub shell thread:
Well it started with a rather painful incident on clerkenfix road, I was riding along casually, cranked hard out of the saddle away from a set of lights, and within a split second my cranks suddenly lost all tension and spun nearly 3/4 of a turn before engaging again and throwing me over the bars towards the road with bike flipping over the top of me landing a few feet ahead, I was in a whole load of pain and thought I had broken my finger, I gashed up my arm pretty nicely also, still I picked my bike and myself up and sat on the pavement to collect myself, no breaks all good, I assume this is a cog/lockring tightness issue, so I see to this accordingly and tighten both, my back wheel was also badly bent and needed alot of beating/trueing.
Fast forward a week later, I have a low speed repeat of what happened before (it does however slip alot further this time) but since I am seated and not pedalling as hard it doesn't result in an accident, so that now clarifys that the hubshell thread on that side is screwed, I also had concerns that he chain may be damaged as well as I heard noises akin to the rollers starting to crunch a little when it slipped no problem I think, I put it down to the hub and just flip it over to the other side. So...i'm carrying on with my commute home get just over half way across London Bridge and hear a crunch from my chain, a couple of rollers go, and then pretty much 3 seconds later as I try to slow down, concerned that the chain is on its way out
(putting pressure on the chain of course), the whole thing disintegrates and flies off of my bike, forcing me to jam my back foot in the wheel to skid stop!
So in the space of 2 weeks I am up to half a hub, a new chain, and a rim thats had to suffer at my hands haha.