Lost my chain... gah...

[lightfoot256]

Was on my way to work this morning, riding along happily - was riding a little more carefully than usual with all the new highway-agency peeps floating around when out of nowhere my revs hits the red line and it feels like its gone into neutral... I figured the gearbox had just slipped and went through down the box until I hit first... still not quite sure what was happening I checked, indicated and pulled over into the lay-by... parks up, gets off and voila... no drive chain...

"aaaahhh..." I thinks... makes sense now... oh bugga. Anyways, I Walked back up the motorway to find my chain sitting there just inside the lay-by (thank god I wasn't in any other lane), no link or anything else just the chain... Grabbed it after a couple trucks nearly flattened it and took my bike down the slip road and out of the way. My dad came to rescue me with a new split-link as everything else was intact... but the link arms were juuuuusst too short so we had a mad trawl around leeds until we found a suzuki shop... ended up mixing the links together as neither of them fit with their own pieces and got the bugger home.

I got a spare link when I got the chain so will be switchin em round once I get a chance... I'd been looking after the chain sooooo well since my last one didn't get much more than 8k miles... so only thing i can think of is that the clip broke somehow in between me setting off from work and breaking down...

All in all a nice waste of a day and a nice hole in mi pocket for all the petrol it's cost me - but at least I'm safe! I know things could have been a lot worse.

Heh, also a note that while waiting for my dad only a single person came to speak to me and that was a woman who was lost and looking for directions!!! unfortunately I didn't really know where i was (except J46 off of the m1) and couldn't help her, lol.

[BlackSheep]

Just be glad your left leg is still attached to your body and not sawn off by a broken chain.
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Never heard of that before!!!!, normally over-tight, really warn, or new incorrectly fitted chains that fly off!. You checked out your sprockets by the way. Just for anythign that could have caused that to happen and also that the chain flying off didnt damage any of its teeth.
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