Chain Maintenance Tips

[Pterodactyl]

Anyone have some more helpful hints?

 

[FJRay]

The bottom one reminds me of a buddy of mine. He flew to NM to pick up a new to him Ducati 900SS. He forgot that it had a chain drive unlike the BMW he had owned for years. By the time he made it to Montana the long way it was time for chain and sprokets.

 

[Mihalis fjr]

Unbelievable!I have never seen a like that..!

 

[escapefjrtist]

Bottom one...poor mans slipper clutch!

--G

 

[Bustanut joker]

I'd just rub Stanleys ballz on 'em both.. Then ride the **** outa 'em.

But that's jus me...

 

[FJRay]

Your relationship with Stanley's ballz isn't something we need to know. Especially when you're riding them. That being the case you will love the present I sent you.

 

[Bustanut joker]

Least they were sub human dinkbag.. So the game begins eh?

Cool! I have 45 pounds of anus clippings here.

 

[FJRay]

Least they were sub human dinkbag.. So the game begins eh?Cool! I have 45 pounds of anus clippings here.

I'm serious, you're gonna have fun with it. Make sure you read the note that's in the box. Be sure to post pictures.

 

[Geezer]

I like the zip ties.

Back in the 70's I once made a replacement chain out if five or six short pieces that had been discarded at work. They were new, just too short to be used on the product we made. I rode it without worry. Back then I was too poor and too frugal to buy a new chain.

 

[Old Guy]

I like the zip ties.

Back in the 70's I once made a replacement chain out if five or six short pieces that had been discarded at work. They were new, just too short to be used on the product we made. I rode it without worry. Back then I was too poor and too frugal to buy a new chain.

We used to run our dirt bikes with three master links. The logic was that when the chain came off and got wadded up around the front sprocket, there would always be a master link where we could get to it to aid in removal. Seemed a good idea at the time.

 

[Old Guy]

While riding with friends a couple of years back we met a young man in Hector, Arkansas, on a dirt bike all packed up for travel. He explained that he'd left Tennessee a few days previous and was planning to ride the Trans-America Trail all the way to the west coast. I was looking at this bike and noticed that his rear sprocket was in pretty bad shape. It wasn't like the second one above, but it was not good. I pointed it out to him, and he said someone on their forum was going to give him one when he got to Oklahoma. I asked if he was replacing the chain and front sprocket as well, and he said they were giving him another -- not new -- rear sprocket and he'd replace them all after the trip.

I gave him my cell number and told him that if he had problems within striking distance of Little Rock to call, but he seemed unconcerned. He was a nice young man, and I sure hoped he made it OK.

 

[bluesdog]

Maintenance: Ur doin' it rong.