Well yesterday cost me a lot more than I expected. I had a puncher repair last Monday and Sod’s law had another puncher 7 days later. I went back to fwr to repair it then decided ill changed the tyre as it wasnt going to last much longer. Bob comes back in with my sprocket carrier and shows me my sprocket has chunks of teeth missing!
It was fairly new when I bought the bike so I’m gutted these only last 6,000 miles so I’ve paid for new chain and sprockets 
Hmm, thats strange and very frustrating. I thought they were pretty good quality
Shiv you can get stronger heavier chains and sprocs.
Were they mixed up causing faster wear?
Try and get heavier for chain and sproc especially if your commuting, stop go stop go causes big wear
Possible he was running a smaller pitch chain but I’m not sure as it was all there when I bought it.
I’m going back to steel sprockets and a x link did chain tomorrow
hmm also heard the same from bob - but my mate from work (you saw) always uses renthals and never had a problem
Could be because its on my
Bike, my riding style or something the pervious owner did.
Ill stick to what I know and that’s steel ones as I’m not bothered about the weight saving I like my cake too much
Never understood why people would fit alloy sprockets? Granted Aluminium can be surfaced hardened, but ultimately steel is stronger, and has a better resistance to the mechanical stress that it would be under as a sprocket.
Ok you may save a few grams but it is really worth it on a road bike?
They do look rather trick though don’t they…
Steel sprockets always the best on a road bike. I also found that using a genuine front sprocket it always best as they come with the rubber noise damper moulded on the inside. Mind you I always stick to genuine sprockets.
Talon is the way to go
as i’ve said to you on fb, never fitted any other than renthal on all my bikes and lasted way over the recommended usage.
sorry to hear about your experience but never failed me or anyone i know for what matters.
This isn’t a shame thread nor am I crying about it was just saying
sounds to me like mismatched or uneven wear chain.
or wheelie practice 
Nooooo I’ve wheelied this twice on power and never want to do it again 
Light and tough.
16K miles commuting on the SV still with original
chain and sprockets and still going strong and I don’t
need to practice but can’t resist ocasional wheelies
:w00t:
i run Talon sprockets on mine (that was what we used to supply for the milles when i was at southern cross) and i average 20k miles out of my chains and sprockets.
i prefer to run steel when i can, but sometimes the size of sprocket i want to run dictates an ally one.
@kevsta the sprocket weight difference on my OZ wheels was 3/4 of a kilo (thats a **** load of unsprung weight)
@KTM martin the super sprox sprockets are the biggest load of wank i have ever seen. every one i have fitted for a customer is usually HEAVIER than the OE steel ones!
As I’m just looking to buy chain and sprockets, this thread has come in very handy 
