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i have just over 15k on the bike now, its the stock chain. many rides in the rain, clean and lube every 400-500 miles give or take a few.

now the only reason i think the chain is toast is that, every few links it doesn't sit all the way down into the sproket. so when this happens it jurks a little. like if i was runing over somthing that was makeing noise and chatering.

so to prevent burgering up the sprockets i have cut the chain to remove temtation to ride till my XW chain comes in. (rw chain brand 123$ )


so what is/was your chain life in the ranges above? give detals about the chain you have/had ect...

i got 30,000 miles out of the stock chain, it broke once at the link so bought another link, i barely cleaned it, and it had lots of stiff places on it.
i have replaced it now with a xlink chain, so i hope i get as many miles out of it as the standard :thumb:

Quote from: rangerbrown on August 15, 2006, 10:28:59 PM
so to prevent burgering up the sprockets i have cut the chain to remove temtation to ride till my XW chain comes in. (rw chain brand 123$ )

:laugh: thats pretty funny, probably not a bad idea though

My original chain (AFAIK, bought bike w/ 7k mi) is at 18k + miles right now, ridden and taken care of about the same way you described.  I think a couple of the links are a bit tighter than the rest, so I'm considering a new chain, but it will probably be a winter maintenance thing for me. 

Quote from: manofthefield on August 16, 2006, 09:16:19 AM

Quote from: rangerbrown on August 15, 2006, 10:28:59 PM
so to prevent burgering up the sprockets i have cut the chain to remove temtation to ride till my XW chain comes in. (rw chain brand 123$ )

:laugh: thats pretty funny, probably not a bad idea though

My original chain (AFAIK, bought bike w/ 7k mi) is at 18k + miles right now, ridden and taken care of about the same way you described.  I think a couple of the links are a bit tighter than the rest, so I'm considering a new chain, but it will probably be a winter maintenance thing for me. 

yea, give me a good reason to drive the new truck any way

I've averaged 15k out of most of my chains (non-oring on the 250, and o-ring on this bike).  So far, I haven't had to do any adjustments to my chain for the past 2000 miles, and I've been checking it every 500.

I also do ~15K. Non O ring chains dont last worth a crap. X rings are the best prolly. O rings are plenty good. They'd rust before its done anyway.
Cool.
Srinath.

stock come with a o-ring right?

Endless O ring. Yes its got no end, ... when you buy and endless chain, they just send you ... and its like ... I mean its like they send you the middle of it, and you start pulling and its just going to endlessly keep comming.  :laugh: ...
There by prompting the old usenet question - how do you ship an endless chain.
Much like why shaft drives cant wheelie or why spagthorpes dont get flat tires. OK they had wooden wheels. That's why.
OK its official, I am older than dirt ...
Cool.
Srinath.

shafts can wheely, just not well