that's what i was hoping - I was wondering whether I might be able to send it back and get a replacement under warranty, but that's a bit of an arse 'cos i want it for the cambrian next weekend! Anyhow i'll find out where i ordered it from and ring them up first thing monday, see how amenable they are...
The other thing i have noticed is that the derailleur hanger now seems bent. My gut instinct is that this caused it to be bent, rather than the other way round - since it was shifting ok, and i know of no incidence of it having been twatted or anything, but it's possible that it's been bent for a while and that may have made it more likely to snap?
The other thing i was thinking is that maybe it's a "best point of failure" -
mechanically speaking, it's worse than a broken chain, but if the chain had snapped i would be more likely to have fallen off and got hurt...
Chain's a bit slack
oh god tell me about it...
on the way back into pately bridge i went over a bump which knocked it from 4th (42x19) to 5th (42x17)!
but it was literally only a quarter of a mile so i just though 'i'm moving, that's something...'
Looks like metal fatigue to me.
that would concur, but it's only a few months old...
i'm hanging my hat on MV's idea of a manufacturing fault.