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Well I had a fun ride yesterday. I was in the waning miles of a 270 mile trip, cruising along at freeway speeds, when suddenly there was a whoosh and my 2004, completely stock Speedmaster started making a funny noise.
Wasn't a ha-ha funny noise, more like a whooshing/air escaping a balloon kind of noise, only much, much louder. My first thought was that something punctured a tire, but there was no shaking, shimmying, or loss of control.
It takes a minute to pull off the freeway to a safe spot where I can check it out. The chain guard is gone, and underneath the bike is a torn-off piece of metal that the chain is grinding on.
The chain guard - I understand losing that. Last week, I removed it to clean & lube my chain, and while I thought I had it tightened back on, the evidence would suggest otherwise because it's just gone. What's underneath the bike, and grinding against the chain, I have no clue.
The attached pics are terrible b/c I can't get a good angle underneath the bike. It'll be next weekend before I get a chance to take a better pic of the damage, but in the interim, I'm wondering if anybody has any guesses as to which part got chewed up pretty good.
Any/all thoughts are appreciated! Thanks -
Jeff
Wasn't a ha-ha funny noise, more like a whooshing/air escaping a balloon kind of noise, only much, much louder. My first thought was that something punctured a tire, but there was no shaking, shimmying, or loss of control.
It takes a minute to pull off the freeway to a safe spot where I can check it out. The chain guard is gone, and underneath the bike is a torn-off piece of metal that the chain is grinding on.
The chain guard - I understand losing that. Last week, I removed it to clean & lube my chain, and while I thought I had it tightened back on, the evidence would suggest otherwise because it's just gone. What's underneath the bike, and grinding against the chain, I have no clue.
The attached pics are terrible b/c I can't get a good angle underneath the bike. It'll be next weekend before I get a chance to take a better pic of the damage, but in the interim, I'm wondering if anybody has any guesses as to which part got chewed up pretty good.
Any/all thoughts are appreciated! Thanks -
Jeff
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