Sprocket changes... need to ajust links in chain?

[ctatv]

thats all i got for now,

[teemtrubble]

Dude that's only 15 teeth and you couldn't have put a case saver on that because the top mount is fubar! WTF! are you talking about?

[ctatv]

Dude that's only 15 teeth and you couldn't have put a case saver on that because the top mount is fubar! WTF! are you talking about?

U sure thats only 15? ill have to go out and count I could have sworn I had a 16 on it...

oh well. and yeah the mount for the case saver got mangled a month ago when the chain let loose on me and piled up in there. no leaks or serious damage thankfully...

[pstoffers]

thats all i got for now,

[MICK]

and yeah the mount for the case saver got mangled a month ago when the chain let loose on me and piled up in there. no leaks or serious damage thankfully.

Dude why is it always the guys that run without a case saver that the chain decides to take a shit?? You forget the safetly clip or something?

Yeah that's just a 15t...

[teemtrubble]

4 pages and it was only a 15 tooth sproket anyways....

[MICK]

[ctatv]

and yeah the mount for the case saver got mangled a month ago when the chain let loose on me and piled up in there. no leaks or serious damage thankfully.

Dude why is it always the guys that run without a case saver that the chain decides to take a shit?? You forget the safetly clip or something?

Yeah that's just a 15t...

I honestly have no idea how the chain did it but it did... i hadnt touched the chain other than oiling it for over 6 months when it did that... not like i had been playing around with it.

so now that i fcuked that whole counting thing up and im going back to elementary school. how will 15/51 gearing be?

should I go 15/51 or will i be better off 15/44

[MICK]

I don't kow...six months is a long time to not do ANYTHING with the chain. By comparison I don't go a single ride without taking the chain completely off the bike and scrubbing it down and oiling it. Remount, adjust, realign sprocket and recheck tension again. It sounds like alot but preparation means everything. If a non o-ring chain with five years on it isn't proof in the puding I don't know what is? In most cases the argument for a component failure isn't "What did you do?" It's "What haven't you done?"

[britincali]

15/45 on my 2000, no friggin way a 16 will ever fit on a CR500 without some seriose grinding and filling the holes you create in the case.

[ctatv]

I don't kow...six months is a long time to not do ANYTHING with the chain. By comparison I don't go a single ride without taking the chain completely off the bike and scrubbing it down and oiling it. Remount, adjust, realign sprocket and recheck tension again. It sounds like alot but preparation means everything. If a non o-ring chain with five years on it isn't proof in the puding I don't know what is? In most cases the argument for a component failure isn't "What did you do?" It's "What haven't you done?"

I agree with you but I will say It was being used exclusively on paved roads with minimal dirt and grime, oiled every few rides, chain tension checked visually before each ride, and only ridden an overall average of maybe once every 8 or 10 days... agreed i could have donemore but still shouldnt have done that...