GN250 clunking noise?

[magicmonkey]

Glad you got it sorted out. Hope it isn't another original equipment chinese made chain. They stretch very quickly,so check weekly. I replaced mine with a decent one and only had to adjust it once thereafter. Adjust as per manual.After you have adjusted it , sit on it and check it isn't to tight.

I'm 99% sure it's not the original as the bike is an 04 and has done 11,000K's, if it were original I'd expect to see a lot of wear/rust on it or some wear on the sprockets but there's barely any wear on either, just looks like the previous owner didn't adjust the chain at all. It's still sitting half way though the adjustment range at the moment so I should be able to just tighten it up a couple of notches and be ok (he says, having never adjusted a chain before!) I might even drop it round to a dealer and ask a mechanic to have a quick look at tit and make sure it's ok once I've had a go at doing it myself, I suppose it'll cost a few bucks but better safe than sorry eh

[Geemsee]

thanks for that mate! I went over the chain and sprockets last night and although the chain isn't pulling away from the sprocket at the back, there's a lot of play on it, it looks like it's been knocking against the centrestand when there's a change in the power being delivered to it, time to adjust the chain by the looks of thing I'm glad that's an easy job as I'd been bricking myself about having to replace the gearbox for a while there...


As for the scooter issue, they've never had any appeal to me, they just don't look as fun as bikes. That said, I've never ridden one so it's quite possible that I might have a go one day and think they're the dogs bollocks, I'm only having a bit of a rib with it

Glad it was some assistance!! Actually, on the scooter issue a very long time ago in a galaxy far,far away I had a Vespa Rally 200 that would pull over 135 on the flat! I used to have great fun buzzing Honda Superdreams, RD185's, GT250's the only problem was stopping the dam thing as the front brake was a joke, I got quite good at broadsiding the old bus using the back brake only!!

[magicmonkey]

well, maybe one of these days I'll try and convince one of the scooterati to give me a go then

[magicmonkey]

I adjusted the chain last night and took the bike out for a quick spin to town and back, just to make sure I hadn't done anything terribly wrong, worked a charm, no knocking noises at all. Then I took it out for the nice hour long ride to work this morning and still no clanking about, looks like it's all sorted, thanks for the advice guys