Where to get new chain + sprockets in Auck??

**Coldrider** · 15th January 2008, 12:21

Yep, individuals will weigh up the risks vs the savings and make a choice, the more they do it, the more confidence they will have.
Ron Brierley was actually doing the country a favour long before we knew it.

**Ragingrob** · 15th January 2008, 12:28

OK so back on track, I've just got a new chain and sprockets fitted from cycletreads

for a price of $210!!! EDIT : And that's $210 for an NZ company :P

Now, how much wearing in do they need? Take it easy for a few hundred k's or what? How easy lol?

**Coldrider** · 15th January 2008, 12:33

Lube it up and go, keep an eye on the joiner link for a while.

**Taz** · 15th January 2008, 12:34

They don't really need running in. Just check the tension a few times in the next couple of hundred K's and retension as necessary. Remember a chain that's too tight is as as bad if not worse than a chain that's too loose.

**Ragingrob** · 15th January 2008, 12:35

Originally Posted by Coldrider

Lube it up and go, keep an eye on the joiner link for a while.

The joiner link?

**FROSTY:Me** · 15th January 2008, 12:35

I'd ride normally but check the chain tension after a couple of hundred k's

**Ragingrob** · 15th January 2008, 12:36

Originally Posted by Anthrax

They don't really need running in. Just check the tension a few times in the next couple of hundred K's and retension as necessary. Remember a chain that's too tight is as as bad if not worse than a chain that's too loose.

Hmmm it seems to have a good 2-3 inches slack right now, which I may tighten slightly...

**Taz** · 15th January 2008, 12:38

Oh and if cycletreads fitted them double check all nuts and bolts before one falls out/off.

**Coldrider** · 15th January 2008, 12:43

Originally Posted by Ragingrob

The joiner link?

The link that splices the two ends together. It will be one with a link that is a clip, or one that is pressed closed. Unless they have used a seamless chain in which case they would have removed the swingarm to fit. Don't think that is common for aftermaket chains. I inspect the joiner link a few times after fitting to make sure all is well. It may save your life one day.

**Taz** · 15th January 2008, 12:45

Sometimes they fit a new chain with a rivet link instead of a clip link.

**Morcs** · 15th January 2008, 14:14

Originally Posted by Ragingrob

OK so back on track, I've just got a new chain and sprockets fitted from cycletreads

for a price of $210!!! EDIT : And that's $210 for an NZ company :P

Now, how much wearing in do they need? Take it easy for a few hundred k's or what? How easy lol?

210?!? And it took chris ages too...
I just paid $245.

As for wearing in im not sure, I turned onto the road and screamed away on the back wheel

**Squiggles** · 15th January 2008, 15:33

Ride her as you would, they will have riveted the chain, 2-3cm slack midway between the sprockets with the suspension a bit compressed is what i go for, but im on the upper end of 3cm for the tl thanks to the weak countershaft sprocket bearing the 97's had

**Ragingrob** · 15th January 2008, 15:51

Originally Posted by Morcs

210?!? And it took chris ages too...
I just paid $245.

As for wearing in im not sure, I turned onto the road and screamed away on the back wheel

Chris? Wait...

how do you know!

**Ragingrob** · 15th January 2008, 15:52

Originally Posted by Squiggles

Ride her as you would, they will have riveted the chain, 2-3cm slack midway between the sprockets with the suspension a bit compressed is what i go for, but im on the upper end of 3cm for the tl thanks to the weak countershaft sprocket bearing the 97's had

Is that 2-3cm slack both ways or just one way? As in completely wiggling chain up an' down or just push it up see how far?