I built my first 1x setup a few days ago. It's on a hybrid gravel, road bike with straight handlebars. My setup is Zee RD, Deore 10spd 11-36 cassette, 10spd XT chain, 10spd XT shifters, Ultegra 10spd normal road chainring.
I'm loving it so far but I have a few little problems. I know you can't maintain a perfect chain line on 1x setups. Everyone is always told not to cross chain, but i'm wondering how bad it is in reality with the flexible 10 and 11 speed chains we have nowadays.
My drivetrain is pretty noisy and not very smooth in the two biggest cogs. In the biggest cog the rear mech also flexes a little bit towards the outside, even though the hanger is straight. In the biggest cog there is also some noise coming from the chainring.
When I backpedal in the last two smallest cogs it sounds like the indexing is off (it's not), when I pedal forwards in these two cogs it's pretty smooth, only a little bit of noise
Is this noise and roughness normal for a 1x setup? Because most of the time the chain line is not perfect, will my cassette and chain wear down really fast compared to a 2x or 3x setup or I shouldn't be worried?
A few pictures about how the chain looks. My chain line is around 44-45mm, and of course it's a road frame with 130mm dropout spacing. The crank is a double and I put the chainring on the outside because I mainly use the smaller cogs.
Pictures:
https://s30.postimg.org/6hpsnakqn/P1240505.jpg
https://s30.postimg.org/l3gtbjhj5/P1240519.jpg
https://s30.postimg.org/buen1f8n3/P1240509.jpg
I'm loving it so far but I have a few little problems. I know you can't maintain a perfect chain line on 1x setups. Everyone is always told not to cross chain, but i'm wondering how bad it is in reality with the flexible 10 and 11 speed chains we have nowadays.
My drivetrain is pretty noisy and not very smooth in the two biggest cogs. In the biggest cog the rear mech also flexes a little bit towards the outside, even though the hanger is straight. In the biggest cog there is also some noise coming from the chainring.
When I backpedal in the last two smallest cogs it sounds like the indexing is off (it's not), when I pedal forwards in these two cogs it's pretty smooth, only a little bit of noise
Is this noise and roughness normal for a 1x setup? Because most of the time the chain line is not perfect, will my cassette and chain wear down really fast compared to a 2x or 3x setup or I shouldn't be worried?
A few pictures about how the chain looks. My chain line is around 44-45mm, and of course it's a road frame with 130mm dropout spacing. The crank is a double and I put the chainring on the outside because I mainly use the smaller cogs.
Pictures:
https://s30.postimg.org/6hpsnakqn/P1240505.jpg
https://s30.postimg.org/l3gtbjhj5/P1240519.jpg
https://s30.postimg.org/buen1f8n3/P1240509.jpg