Chain come off ahhhh

[kingsknight]

shit man, was doing 65 on the way home from a mates last night when the my back wheel locked up out of no where! looked down and the chain had come off!

Recovery guy fixed it within about 5mins and i was back on the road again. ordered a new chain set last night! did shit me up tho! thought my engine broke!
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TS50 (sold) NS125F (sold) NSR125R-K (write off after 2 crashes) CG125 (nicked) XR125L-3 (Sold )-: ) DR125SM '11 (sold yay) XL125V '12 (In love with this bike) XT600E '04 (fun on the dirt)

[Finglonga]

Weekly maintenance should have prevented it. When was the last time you checked the tension of it?
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[Welshd1k]

[Charlie]

My chain came off my city fly twice. Both times quite lucky as the back wheel didn't lock up. After much fiddling me and my Dad decided the cush drives had gone because the sprocket could wobble more than it should be able to.
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Current: Honda CBR929RR & Yamaha XT660Z Tenere

[Paulington]

I check mine weekly, and it slacks off so quickly over a week it's silly. Part of my weekly wash and check procedure.

2-3k? That's mad! How slack was it compared to what the manual said after that?
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[Charlie]

if it is getting slack that quick paul you are probably due a new chain soon.
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Current: Honda CBR929RR & Yamaha XT660Z Tenere

[Welshd1k]

[Charlie]

Dad's transalp did 50,000 miles on a chain... when he came to changing it he said they chain was fine, it was more that the front sprocket was shagged. The only time it got adjusted was when the back wheel had to come off for what ever reason (mainly new tyres) .

DID gold x-ring chain with a scotoiler and standard honda sprockets.
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Past: Honda x8rs, Honda City fly, Honda Hornet 250, Honda VFR750, Yamaha xt600e.
Current: Honda CBR929RR & Yamaha XT660Z Tenere

[Paulington]

[Welshd1k]

[map]

what is this chain and lube and tension that you speak off

I know little of these strange words as I've been shafted for years

On-topic, lucky not to break and engine casing with a chain whipping around. Maintenance is certainly best for preventing expensive accidents.


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[Paulington]

[Welshd1k]

[Paulington]

[Welshd1k]

[Paulington]

[kingsknight]

[Eddie Hitler]

[kingsknight]

i oil my chain once a month or every 500miles depending on which comes 1st!

[The Original Muzza]

I'm pretty lax when it comes to chain maintenance. Lube it every 500 miles or so, proper clean and lube every 1000 less if it's been left for a while and only check the slack once in a blue moon.
Needless to say I paid for it, the chain came off my marauder when I was about to leave uni. Rather than call someone out, I stuck it back on like you would a pushbike chain when you were little and rode home. The adjuster was stuck fast and the socket wouldn't turn it. Called the garage from home and they said it would be £40 to come collect it, so I rode it in with slack chain. Looking back on it, it was a retarded and dangerous thing to do, but nothing happened so
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Former Bikes: Honda MSX125 (2014), BMW Funduro (1996), Honda VT500 (1983), Yamaha FZR250 (1989), Suzuki GZ125 Marauder(2005),:Triumph TT600 (2002) (stolen)
From then on, I and the bicycle feelings deeper.

[blutonium92]

The RS50 i used to own chain was normally the right tension for about 20mins after tightening then it would go slack and flap off the swing arm >< ,
and no it wasnt a fault with the sprockets, swingarm, lock nuts or nything.. it was just plain shite.
Maybe a realy dodgy chain though?

[.Chris.]

The chain on my CD250 seems to go from being correctly tensioned to pretty slack in about 250 miles. I replaced it and the sprockets about a year (5000 miles) ago, but with the cheapest one I could find. Won't be making that mistake again. That said I'm not exactly religious about chain maintenance.
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1985 Kawasaki Z550F

[Seb]

Getting a good chain makes a huge huge difference, when I got my ZZR the dealer put a fresh chain and sprockets on, a couple of months down the line and I was having to adjust the thing twice a week no matter what I tried on it to keep it in good shape. In the end I got a new did chain and sprockets which promptly did ~12000 miles with barely a handful of adjustments. With the way I rode that thing it'd have probably outlasted the rest of the bike with a scottoiler
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2010 Triumph 1050 Sprint ST

[Eddie Hitler]

Lucky the chain didn't catch anywhere Luke.

Would hate to think how hard the front came down aswell.