Excellent Service

**Ms Piggy** · 1st March 2004, 20:59

I had to get a new chain for my bike - just what a student needs upon starting a new year at Uni!

Anyway I just thought I'd rave about how impressed I was with Boyles Kawasaki by The Basin. I got an 'o' ring chain fitted (b/c no point in skimping on something so important) and they only charged me $150- all up.

I thought that was pretty good...mind you possibly could have been b/c when I arrived to pick my bike up they hadn't done the job yet.

They have always been good to me & really friendly, so just wanted to pass on the info.

**Blink** · 1st March 2004, 21:44

glad to hear the beast is all go again

yeah i saw your bike there today (as i just work up the road) and was wondering what you were getting done

**Milky** · 2nd March 2004, 10:46

I dunno if it is true or not, but i heard that if you replace your chain you should also replace the sprockets.... i think due to the fact that an old chain and new sprockets or vese versa will mean one wears faster than normal.

Anyone heard of this before, and can they discount it as certainly true/false?

~milky

**riffer** · 2nd March 2004, 11:20

Originally Posted by Milky

I dunno if it is true or not, but i heard that if you replace your chain you should also replace the sprockets

That's certainly what both my Haynes manual and my local mc dealers shops recommend.

Not too sure of how much a lower horsepower bike would wear the sprockets, but I guess on higher horsepower bikes like my FZR it would be more of a problem.

**aff-man** · 2nd March 2004, 11:40

After much sprocket use the teeth of the sprocket become hooked in a certain direction. Thus if you decide to put a nice new chain on the hooked teeth stuff the chain. Unless the chain is made of some super strenth stuff

. That's what i've been told/ observed anyway. Most bike places will tell you if the sprockets are screwed.

**speedpro** · 2nd March 2004, 13:45

Doesn't sound like much has changed at Boyles. Someone told me once that Boyles don't sell you stuff, you buy stuff from Boyles, , , , if they remember to order it in. Good bunch of blokes I reckon.

**Ms Piggy** · 2nd March 2004, 14:14

Originally Posted by Milky

I dunno if it is true or not, but i heard that if you replace your chain you should also replace the sprockets.... i think due to the fact that an old chain and new sprockets or vese versa will mean one wears faster than normal.

Anyone heard of this before, and can they discount it as certainly true/false?

~milky

I did check that Milky

as per advice from Mccool.

Regan from Boyles said that the sprockets were still ok and not worn enough to need replacing.

**georgedubyabush** · 2nd March 2004, 14:56

Originally Posted by Celtic_Sea_lily

I did check that Milky

as per advice from Mccool.

Regan from Boyles said that the sprockets were still ok and not worn enough to need replacing.

The chain will also kind of bind on the sprockets if you roll it backwards when the sprockets are worn. Horrible clicking noise and harder to push if extremely worn. Mine were fine too when I changed my chain.

**Slim** · 2nd March 2004, 15:35

As I just found out on the weekend, it's also a good idea to take the front sprocket cover off every now and then to, a) check the sprocket for wear, but more importantly, b) remove the chain lube gunk. If you let the gunk keep building up, it will reach a point where the chain will pick it up as it goes around the front sprocket & run it around, wearing the chain out even quicker.

I've got new chain AND sprockets on order as we speak.

**White trash** · 2nd March 2004, 15:37

Thats not the only thing to consider.

Chains, when tight spots occur, wear sprockets slightly oval. New chain goes on, oval sprockets stretch the chain at each elongated space.

6000km later, one buggered new chain. Nice!

**Holy Roller** · 2nd March 2004, 16:56

Originally Posted by White trash

Thats not the only thing to consider.

Chains, when tight spots occur, wear sprockets slightly oval. New chain goes on, oval sprockets stretch the chain at each elongated space.

6000km later, one buggered new chain. Nice!

I gave up on chain drive a decade ago Shaft Drive is so much easier, low maintanence, low cost. When I see a great looking bike to possibly trade up to and see a chain

I guess I'm getting lazy as the years roll by.

**Milky** · 4th March 2004, 10:21

Originally Posted by Holy Roller

I gave up on chain drive a decade ago Shaft Drive is so much easier, low maintanence, low cost. When I see a great looking bike to possibly trade up to and see a chain

I guess I'm getting lazy as the years roll by.

Low cost for the shaft drive?? i would hav thought of it as being the other way round, specially if there are shock absorbers in the shafts... and then there are splines, oil seals and oil to replace too

go buy a MZ and get the best of both worlds... a fully rubber-enclosed chain so no worry with grit and wear and tear, plus u get easy maintenence... I had an MZ etz250 which had the enclosed chain on it

caused a bit of trouble down at the wof place though.. the guy couldnt see a chain so he assumed it was shaft drive, and checked to see if there was a shaft, then got rather confused and came to ask me what was driving the rear wheel

~milky

**Timber020** · 4th March 2004, 22:47

I met an old guy who rode an old yamaha dirtbike, he had owned it for 15 years and it had an O ring chain on it that he put on it from new. He said he took it off periodically and cleaned and lubed it and measured the length for wear. He thought he had been through at least 6 sets of sprocs over the years while the chain had only stretched a few mm over its total length!

LB · 5th March 2004, 05:09

Oh dear, now I have to replace my chain (hopefully not sprockets at 18,000kms). I have a tight spot, only just realised what it was - the bike felt hesistant at low speeds for a while (almost like a half miss), that got faster as I went faster, then around 80kph it smoothed out. Hamish had a look during the week (it's hard to explain how it felt) and found a tight spot. Spoke to Motomart and it definitely needs replacing. So dropping it off on Saturday....and I've got a ride on Sunday - shit, I'll have to take the Beemer.