Drz400

[Andy67]

I told ya you shoulda got a 350

I have used a 15 tooth front sproket for getting to the interesting bits and carried a 13 tooth for when I got there. It's a 5-10 miute job to change them over, although the 350 has a circlip, can you put a circlip on the 400 ? There's not much adjustment left in the chain after the swap so it probly wont work if you chains stretched already when using the 15 tooth

That would be ideal and kind of what I was thinking, sounds like carrying a 2ft bar and loctite may be just a bit unrealistic.....

[NordieBoy]

I told ya you shoulda got a 350

I have used a 15 tooth front sproket for getting to the interesting bits and carried a 13 tooth for when I got there. It's a 5-10 miute job to change them over, although the 350 has a circlip, can you put a circlip on the 400 ? There's not much adjustment left in the chain after the swap so it probly wont work if you chains stretched already when using the 15 tooth

DRZ sprocket bolts on dunnit, not circlipable?

[Andy67]

DRZ sprocket bolts on dunnit, not circlipable?

It's a bolt like you say.

[Hillbilly110]

Agree with you about oiling a dirt bike chain but I'm not so sure about lubing just for rust prevention. Without lube there is metal to metal high speed contact where the chain passes over sprockets. Surely some lube here will reduce metal to metal contact and therefore reduce wear? I dunno.

I,ve never been one to oil an O-ring chain and if you read the Adventure Riding Handbook he got 20 000 + kilometres in the Sahara from a DID Gold Plate with no oil. The DID website says chain should be cleaned and oiled daily so who knows.

As for a small tidy tail end, go to Supercheap. we got tail assy and LED blinkers etc all from there. If you PM me your email I'll send a pic

[NordieBoy]

I tried WD-40'ing my last DR650 chain.
No issues at all until about 11,000km (half way through a Rainbow/Molesworth NADS ride) when it started sounding like it was jumping sprocket teeth.
Some normal chain lube solved the noise issues for a further 3,000km.

[dino3310]

when i clean my chain i just use a little crc to coat the chain, with a rag jammed under the chain on the slider

and a rag in hand to wipe of muck and eccess spray then give it a light spray coating of chain lube and repeat with rags and thats my routeing, seems to work alright never hand any issues

[raftn]

[IMG] P1000093 by Roger Fleming, on Flickr[/IMG]

[Andy67]

Thanks Rog,

Great day out !!

That shot was taken at Port Waikato just after we had been for a blast down the beach, got there via Klondike Road which was AWESOME and shot to Nikau Caves for lunch. Great day out. Got 150kms till reserve then needed the extra gas I was carrying. Could probably have got back to Tuakau if I had gassed up there but certainly no further.

Reinstalled the snorkel after I got home as the bike was popping a bit from the exhaust. Will see if that smooths power delivery as well. May change sprocket soon the see what that does.

Cheers Andy