replace chain and sprockets rs250

[nudedaytona]

Hi there. Can someone please tell me how to replace the chain and sprockets on an aprilia rs250? The chain on it at the moment is the original.

Thanks,

[imdying]

If it were me, it would go:
- Ride to Cycletreads
- Tell man at counter to wheel RS250 in and change the chain and sprockets
- Pick the colour chain I want
- Sit down in the couch with a Red Bull and play some PS2
- Pay man
- Ride home

The alternative is to get a KBer in Auckland to help you

[nudedaytona]

Mate replacing chain and sprockets shouldn't be that big of a job - why don't you think I can do it myself? I think there was an article in motorcycle trader about this a couple of months back. Does anyone have a copy?

[Cajun]

yeah but you need the right tools,
aka chain braker, chain rivit.
misc socket sets etc,

and honstly if you have not seen it done before, not a good thing do yourself, until you seen it done.

Trust me a clip chain come off and i just about ended up in trees around the coro.

[nudedaytona]

where do I get a chain breaker and a chain rivit from?

[Cajun]

bike shop most likley sell them they are expensive tho.

[Kwaka14]

As other people have said, best to get it done, it's easy to do but a chain breaker isn't cheap and most places will price them fitted anyway, see Kerry at motohaus or any shop really.

[Ocean1]

The dude want's to do it hisself. Bit of respect eh?

If you tell the shop how many links you want they'll cut it for you.
You still need a wee tool to fit the joining link, everyone else borrows mine but the shop will have one.

It is a lot easier once you've seen it done, (how to hold yer tounge and exactly which special words work best) so it'd be nice if someone walked you throught it. Failing that get the shop to take some of your old chain apart and practice putting it back together again with the wee press-tool.

Sprockes shouldn't be a problem, I just don't know the bike. You might need circlip pliers or a socket larger than the typical set's got...

Luck dude, hope someone can give you a hand with the first one.

[imdying]

Mate replacing chain and sprockets shouldn't be that big of a job - why don't you think I can do it myself?

Because there are only 3 allen head bolts, 1 big nut, and 6 small nuts, and yet you had to ask how it's done. That leads me to hazard a guess that you probably aren't equipped to rattle the front nut off, or break the chain. Given that, you're probably better off to lax up whilst some lacky gets his hands dirty

It's easy enough if you've got the right tools, and I'm all for doing things myself, but if you've got to ask how it's done, then I'm guessing you don't have the tools.

[Richard Mc F]

Hmmmm with critical mechanical repairs, replacements and adjustments......if you need to ask you should not even try.......it hurts when things like that fail, if you are dead set on doing it pm me and can have look and make recomendations, because if it is a rivet link chain you need special tools and some one who knows what the end result should look like

[nudedaytona]

All right then. If I was to do most of the maintenance on my bike, what tools will I need?

[imdying]

Ooooh, I have a tool fetish, they're all good to me

Well, a good start would be:
- 1/2" drive socket set. 3/8" as well would be good, but you can do without
- Good allen keys. Also worth considering some allen keys that go on a socket wrench
- Some screw drivers
- Ring spanners

Those are the basics, the rest, buy em as you need em is what I do

What do you do for a job mate? Do you work anywhere that has an account at a local tool place? Good tip for saving money is buy second hand tools. Good quality tools should last a life time, nothing wrong with buying quality second hand ones if they've not been abused. Dude across the road died from old age... he was a fitter turner afaik... must've been over $6000 worth of tools and welding plants gone for a song.

Anyway, there's heaps of specialist tools you'll eventually want... things like brake hose clamps, a decent 6 sized hex ring spanner for undoing brake bleeder screws, feeler gauges, crap like that... just buy em when you need em, and in a few years you'll have tools coming out your ears

Buy quality, and buy a sturdy tool box and a padlock. Never ever lend your tools, people lose them, they break them, they don't return them. People are pricks, don't trust them.