Triumphrat

TomJ

After trying to find the source of a low speed clicking noise on my bike I have found that when the chain is in a certain position the chain becomes so tight that you can hardly move it (when adjusted on site stand for 40mm movement in a slack spot). I guess that this means its time for a new chain and sprockets?

tyrebyter

How many miles?

nortoncharlie

You need to adjust the chain to the tight spot. I did have a master link go bad on one of my chains. It was pretty easy to see the long link as you roll it onto the rear sprocket. All the other links roll right into the tooth then the long link come high on the tooth. Mine destroyed my counter shaft sprocket before I fixed it. I swapped an old sprocket it on to it after repairing the master link. I replaced the chain and sprockets after getting through the winter.

BigStripey

Any tight spot like that on a chain is a bad spot!, it is the beginning of the end for the chain and sprockets.

Time for new is the safest bet by far. If you can stretch to it, go with a DID 'x' ring or similar. I can only talk from experience and i have found them to be excellent chains. It is 530 VM chain that you need.

[ This message was edited by: BigStripey on 2006-02-08 23:51 ]

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winger

I'll ditto Jim,if you've got a tight spot on the chain it's time to bail out and buy new chain and sprockets.

johnyC

Although my chain and rear sprocket are still in reasonable nick, I found the 18 tooth front was 'hooked' when I fitted a new 19 tooth recently.

It's probably too late to save this chain and rear sprocket, but when I replace them next I'm going to start changing out the front sprocket every 5,000 miles and see if that makes any difference to the life of the chain and rear sprocket. I read an article in Motorcycle Sport and Leisure where a bloke did this and thought I'd give it a try.

On a variety of bikes over the years, my personal record for 'O' ring chain life was 12,000 miles on a Ducati M900. I got 10,000 out of the original Triumph chain on my old TBS, both were fitted with Scottoilers and correctly adjusted.

I'm hoping that the sacrificial front sprocket experiment works, anyone else tried it?

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tango

With more than just a little abuse, I got 20k miles out of the original chain and sprocket. Changed them for a couple of Renthal sprockets and DID Xring chain.
And the Scottoiler keeps it all nice and clean and lubricated

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