Your chain is loose!

**Phantom Limb** · 17th October 2012, 14:14

To the rider on the Hornet 919 that I had a shouting match with at the lights on Upper Harbour drive last night.
Mate....I was trying to tell you that your chain was fekin' loose!

I think your N-com was turned up too loud

I am of course assuming that you are on here, if not then this post is hot air.

**MystikEagle** · 17th October 2012, 14:39

Good on ya mate!
Nice to see fellow bikers going the extra step to look out for one another

**Tigadee** · 17th October 2012, 15:15

Originally Posted by Phantom Limb

To the rider on the Hornet 919 that I had a shouting match with at the lights on Upper Harbour drive last night.
Mate....I was trying to tell you that your chain was fekin' loose!

Probably mistook your intentions as a friendly rib at his choice of ride...

**Maha** · 17th October 2012, 15:17

Should have just shouted the word Kenworth..he would have stopped..

**Spazman727** · 17th October 2012, 16:32

I tried telling a guy his rear tyre was down to the canvas on the middle, he said it was dual tread or something. Does that even exist?

**nathanwhite** · 17th October 2012, 16:35

Originally Posted by Spazman727

I tried telling a guy his rear tyre was down to the canvas on the middle, he said it was dual tread or something. Does that even exist?

Of course

Its the only type of tyre you can use with a blue powerband.

**Spazman727** · 17th October 2012, 17:14

Uh oh, I think my power band is blue, well the band on the tank is blue so id assume they would colour coordinate it.

**vifferman** · 17th October 2012, 20:23

A coupla weeks ago, I saw some dude from the Birkenhead area on a black Hyosung. Going over the bridge, I was watching his chain with some horror as it seemed it would come off any second, it was flailing around so much. I can't believe he had no idea it was so loose.

**SMOKEU** · 18th October 2012, 06:14

Originally Posted by vifferman

A coupla weeks ago, I saw some dude from the Birkenhead area on a black Hyosung. Going over the bridge, I was watching his chain with some horror as it seemed it would come off any second, it was flailing around so much. I can't believe he had no idea it was so loose.

Probably for the same reason why most cagers won't realise their car is low on oil until it siezes. Most people just don't care, until they learn the hard way.

**Phantom Limb** · 18th October 2012, 08:35

I don't understand riders like that.
I'm the type that checks the crank case sight glass every time I park up in the shed. Also it's probably pointless me having a Scottoiler as I'm checking and fiddling with the fookin thing every week, might as well manually grease the chain with the amount of checking I do.

Then I see people with fork clamps that are more rust than steel, chains that are smacking the tarmac with every bump and triangular tires. That said though, the Hornet I mentioned in the OP had probably 50mm of chain slack, she was slapping about, but not yet at catastrophic levels.

**pzkpfw** · 18th October 2012, 12:22

Last time I got new tyres; before I hoped on the bike I visually checked that the adjusters on both sides were about even and that the split pin was in the Jesus nut.

Yep, all looks good so should be safe.

Lots of noise on the ride home. Found that while they'd tightened everything up nicely, so the wheel didn't fall off, they didn't seem to have checked chain tension at all.

(Once when I was much younger and also stupider, I let an RD250/350LC chain get too loose, and I saw first hand what can happen when it falls off the rear sprocket on a slow corner. So it's something I do worry about (and I'm sure in the case above it really was far too loose from the shop, and not just me being over cautious).)

**MSTRS:Me** · 18th October 2012, 12:26

Originally Posted by Spazman727

Uh oh, I think my power band is blue, well the band on the tank is blue so id assume they would colour coordinate it.

No no - Honda powerbands are ALWAYS pink. That is why Hondas have a rep for being ghey...

**danchop** · 18th October 2012, 17:37

i told a girl on a suzuki savage turned bobber style her bike looked like a piece of shit,while we were stopped for traffic lights.i was on my 125 scooter,she lashed out at me with her leg and fell off her bike

**Berries** · 18th October 2012, 18:40

Originally Posted by Phantom Limb

I don't understand riders like that.
I'm the type that checks the crank case sight glass every time I park up in the shed.

My bike doesn't have a centre stand and the little crank case window is useless so I just wait until a light comes on. A light does come on doesn't it?

**BoristheBiter** · 18th October 2012, 20:42

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

Last time I got new tyres; before I hoped on the bike I visually checked that the adjusters on both sides were about even and that the split pin was in the Jesus nut.

Yep, all looks good so should be safe.

Lots of noise on the ride home. Found that while they'd tightened everything up nicely, so the wheel didn't fall off, they didn't seem to have checked chain tension at all.

(Once when I was much younger and also stupider, I let an RD250/350LC chain get too loose, and I saw first hand what can happen when it falls off the rear sprocket on a slow corner. So it's something I do worry about (and I'm sure in the case above it really was far too loose from the shop, and not just me being over cautious).)

Every time I have been to a certain tyre shop I have to get them the tension the chain properly. They don't like being told they have got it wrong.