I learned some new things about bike mechanics this weekend. Apparently after about a 1000 miles your chain starts to stretch. This in turn beds in to the gear cassette at the back and then leads to the chain slipping gears. My bike was in this state. I had to drop 250 dollars to get the bike fixed. A new cassette, new chain and labour.
A tool called a chain wear tool (about 10 dollars) would have saved me a lot of grief. The other bummer is every 1000 miles I'm going to have to drop 50 bucks for a new chain. That's a new chain every 8 to 10 weeks!
I have had this problem many times with many bikes and the stores I went to never mentioned that. So this was a revelation to me.
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