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Yes if you're not pushing too hard - just lifting with one or two fingers. ( I know you usually use two fingers to measure something else. ) Bogdan, who also wants to know if you're designing a new Moab T-shirt and if some will be available in kid sizes> After installing a new tire, the bike on the sidestand the chain > moved up and just barely touches the rubber swingarm protector. Is > this about right? > > Criswell > >
Yup, unless you have lowering links. -- Doug Herr doug@...> After installing a new tire, the bike on the sidestand the chain > moved up and just barely touches the rubber swingarm protector. Is > this about right?
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Ronald Criswell wrote: > After installing a new tire, the bike on the sidestand the chain > moved up and just barely touches the rubber swingarm protector. Is > this about right? Yup, unless you have lowering links. -- Doug Herr doug@... Archive Quicksearch at: http://www.angelfire.com/ut/moab/klr650_data_search.html List sponsored by Dual Sport News at: www.dualsportnews.com List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html Member Map at: http://www.frappr.com/dsnklr650 Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
I think this deserves to go into the FAQ: This method works regardless of lowering, others do not: http://www.motorcycle.com/mo/mcnuts/chain.html "A new, too-tight chain can, in no time at all, turn into history. The best way to check chain tension, the one used by many race teams, is too ask two of your biggest friends to sit on the bike and compress the rear suspension to the point where the wheel spindle, swing-arm bearing bolt and the front chain-sprocket centerline are all in line. That is the point of maximum chain tension. Or you can compress the bike's rear end with a ratcheting tie down. Free up and down movement at the middle of the chain's bottom run should be about half an inch (13 mm) with the suspension compressed." -- Doug Herr doug@...> What should it be with the lowering links?
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Jimmy wrote: > What should it be with the lowering links? I think this deserves to go into the FAQ: This method works regardless of lowering, others do not: http://www.motorcycle.com/mo/mcnuts/chain.html "A new, too-tight chain can, in no time at all, turn into history. The best way to check chain tension, the one used by many race teams, is too ask two of your biggest friends to sit on the bike and compress the rear suspension to the point where the wheel spindle, swing-arm bearing bolt and the front chain-sprocket centerline are all in line. That is the point of maximum chain tension. Or you can compress the bike's rear end with a ratcheting tie down. Free up and down movement at the middle of the chain's bottom run should be about half an inch (13 mm) with the suspension compressed." -- Doug Herr doug@... Archive Quicksearch at: http://www.angelfire.com/ut/moab/klr650_data_search.html List sponsored by Dual Sport News at: www.dualsportnews.com List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html Member Map at: http://www.frappr.com/dsnklr650 Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
The same method Ron C. asked about below. No unless. My bike is lowered 1 1/2"; I've been using just that for about 60k miles. Three chains so far; current one has 22k miles. Bogdan> What should it be with the lowering links? > Jimmy A6F
> >> After installing a new tire, the bike on the sidestand the chain >> moved up and just barely touches the rubber swingarm protector. Is >> this about right? > > Yup, unless you have lowering links.
Yes, that will work, but technically speaking the chain is "too loose". Now, it is mostly ok to have a chain that is a little loose, so you don't have a problem with it. But if you want the chain to be adjusted exactly right then you use the alternate method.>> What should it be with the lowering links? >> Jimmy A6F > The same method Ron C. asked about below. No unless. My bike is lowered 1 > 1/2"; I've been using just that for about 60k miles. Three chains so far; > current one has 22k miles.
-- Doug Herr doug@...> Bogdan >> >>> After installing a new tire, the bike on the sidestand the chain >>> moved up and just barely touches the rubber swingarm protector. Is >>> this about right? >> >> Yup, unless you have lowering links.