Had my priority 600 ADX for a little over a year and a half and the pinion gearbox started leaking from a seal day one.
Pinion never responded over 36 hours, Priority tried to get a replacement sent out but it won't get here in time.
Will keep moving forward (bike shop and priority said its okay for now) but definitely not the kind of a mechanical I expected from a pinion gearbox.
by dropsanddrag
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I have questions as a fellow Pinion owner who recently also started experiencing a leak, albeit very slow.
Have you recently started standing to climb, or have you always stood to climb since you’ve owned the bike?
Have you done the normal oil replacement on it?
I’ve had my Priority 600 (commuter) since 2019 and started out spinning up climbs since the lowest gear is SO low, but recently (past year) started standing to climb occasionally. I can’t correlate the 2, but it seems like about the time I started standing to climb, the leak started. Again, it’s a super slow leak, like only enough oil to drip once a month, but it’s still concerning.
And like yours, it seems to be coming from the non-drive side.
Didn’t someone on a pinion take a similar L last year or the year before?
Best of luck btw
The only thing to expect is the unexpected!
I did it single speed thinking you know: less things to break! And what happens? Freewheel stopped engaging. soab.
Luckily a small oil leak is not going to end your trip. And you have the advantage of being able to go into any autoparts store from where you are all the way to Mexico and get more gear oil to keep it topped off.
Good luck!
Good luck with it. Keep us posted on how things turn out. I personally have been looking at a Pinion bike for big trips.
Cheers.
Maybe try getting a real bike and not
whatever the heck this dorky ass shit is?