Do you crash a lot, or just from ragging the parts?

Ride fast, stuff breaks. Maybe look at your riding style, but stuff does break, and lift assisted stuff is 1000% harder for your kit than riding over here, think of the mileage you do in a day!

Ric B.

how and how often do you clean and maintain your bike?

Sounds like it could at least partially be due to setup.

Who builds your wheels? Are they evenly tensioned? Lacing pattern?


Things like your chainring bolts, are they all tightened evenly? What do you mean by you 'threaded' your cranks? -

that sounds like a installation error.

Obviously your a hard rider, which things like bent bars cant dispute. But its all the more important to take time and care putting your bike together.

bloody hell mate, sounds like u thrash the s**t out of ure bike!! I've got a hardtail which I take downhilling with year old chains and mech's that still work perfect!! Think u need to look into your biking style and maybe your installations. I know for a fact through experience that if spokes keep snapping on wheels it usually means they need rebuilding, it may be a case that u need a new rim as well?

yeah i suppose, doesnt make it cheaper though! i just seemed to get through more kit than all the guys who i was riding with. Sram should do an indestrucable range...

I wouldn't have said that's an extremely bad rate of wear for 3.5 months of lift assisted riding.  It is fair to say a week solid riding out there is equivalent to a year riding in the uk, ( for me approx riding all/every weekend and 10 uplift weekends).

I spent 10 weeks in the alps this year, riding solid for nearly every day, (55 days lift assisted).  My damage list isn't as bad but not far off:

Nicolai UFO ST frame, Multiple cracks in swingarm and stress marks in front end.  (waiting for warranty replacement)
1 Pedal
1 Bottom Bracket
Pivot bearings
2 105 Rear mechs
4 Sets of gear cable, (kept sheering the outer from rocks kicking up).
2 Chains
Blew fox 36s on the spare bike

Also while out there I serviced my 888s twice, each time the oil was mullered and the difference was huge with fresh fluid.  My dhx shock was serviced before leaving and now is in desperate need of some attention.  I needed to bleed my brakes about 4-5 times, (boiling them on steep alpine singletrack, not poncey dh tracks).

I'm not suprised your forks blew, neither being known for their longevity.  Boxxers need regular lower services and oil changes to keep them happy, I'd say a minimum of every 2 weeks in the alps!