Chain came off

[sinned]

SH1 at Tawa on ramp heading south in the right lane was a chain - missed running over that. A couple hundred metres up the road was the bike and rider. Couldn't stop so spun off at next slip road back North and off and on again at Tawa. The rider had already made a call to be picked up and didn't know where his chain was; no way was I going back to try and recover it. The rear sprocket was seriously worn with curved teeth and the chain had destroyed the chain guard. Lucky he didn't get thrown off. Had recently bought the bike (1980s) and said it ran well. Sure; but what about the rest of the bike?

[Gareth123]

The exact same thing happened to me when I bought my KLR. I knew the chain and sprockets were stuffed and got some new ones ordered but they didn't arrive before I left for Nelson to pick up the bike.

I dropped the chain just before you come into a small settlement called Engineers Camp in the Lewis Pass. Ended up leaving it there overnight. Had to hitchhike back to Rangiora and drive back the next day with a bike trailer to pick it up.

[wanpo]

I broke a chain attempting to clutch up a mono. Jammed up the rear wheel good.

I haven't tried wheelieing since.

[Road kill]

Not hard to see,just spent the bucks on a bike and now a new chain an sprockets suddenly look "very expensive",,,can be a sharp learning curve but.

[Gareth123]

Not hard to see,just spent the bucks on a bike and now a new chain an sprockets suddenly look "very expensive",,,can be a sharp learning curve but.

Its one of the things I usually do as soon as I get a new bike. I never want to have a repeat of my chain coming off again!

[pzkpfw]

Had that on my first bike (about twenty years ago). An RD250/350LC. Went 'round a corner in town, chain slipped off the rear sprocket, I revved it to exit the corner, no go, back off throttle, chain flings forward and knocks a bit of the engine case off. Gearbox oil all falls on the road. A lesson in maintenance learned.

[sleemanj]

Havn't broken a chain myself, but a previous owner of my VTZ did, how do I know, a chunk missing out of the sprocket cover, half of which I found jammed under the shock absorber.

Bet it would have been brown trousers time for whoever was on it at the time.

[tigertim20]

SH1 at Tawa on ramp heading south in the right lane was a chain - missed running over that. A couple hundred metres up the road was the bike and rider. Couldn't stop so spun off at next slip road back North and off and on again at Tawa. The rider had already made a call to be picked up and didn't know where his chain was; no way was I going back to try and recover it. The rear sprocket was seriously worn with curved teeth and the chain had destroyed the chain guard. Lucky he didn't get thrown off. Had recently bought the bike (1980s) and said it ran well. Sure; but what about the rest of the bike?

was it a relatively new rider? or just one with an apparent lack of mechanical intuition?

Did you offer them some advice, or perhaps steer them in the direction of someone who could assist them inavoiding such disasters in the future, or is this just an 'what a fuckin idiot that guy is' post?