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kawakid
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PostPosted: 12:35 - 23 Oct 2006    Post subject: Should I be able to slightly wobble my sprocket? Reply with quote
I'm no mechanic.

However, whilst cleaning my chain, with the bike on the centre stand I noticed I could slightly wobble the rear sprocket. Nothing much.

I could do the same when the wheel was on the ground. only slightly.

Having a feel of another bike today, I couldn't wobble that sprocket.

The wheel doesn't wobble, so its not that.

The bolts look tight enough, suppose I could check the torque on em.
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T1z3R
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PostPosted: 12:37 - 23 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
the rear sprocket on my kymco wobbles. think its something to do with the bushes the sprocket assembly sits on when mounted on the wheel.
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PostPosted: 12:40 - 23 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wobble what way?

On it's axis, NO!

In the direction the chain pulls it - maybe. The sprocket is connected to the wheel by lumps of rubber called cush drive rubbers. These often become not so rubbery and leave a little slack. You can either replace the rubbers or pad them out yourself with other lumps of rubber.

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PostPosted: 12:40 - 23 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
no your not sapose to be able to move it. it may be the rubbers in your cush drive are nacked. take the wheel off, then pull on the sprocket, it will pull out of the hub along wth the part of the cush drive its bolted to, have a look at the rubbers, and check the tightness of your bolts while your there.
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PostPosted: 13:47 - 23 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
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kawakid
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PostPosted: 16:23 - 23 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Its the bearing
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PostPosted: 22:34 - 23 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
The rear sproket on my ER5 wobbled like a drunk uncle at a wedding. Got the rear bearing replaced and now it's as solid as a mate called "Big Dave" Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 23:00 - 23 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tommy wrote:
now it's as solid as a mate called "Big Dave" Thumbs Up


Hope it's not a solid and reliable as my mate "Big Dave" who is frankly, a wee bit off his nut.

He has a collection of knives and has given them womens names. Last time I was round at his house he cooked dinner for five of us in a big cauldron over an open fire in the back garden of his terraced house, despite having a perfectly good kitchen. He also spent three months of his life making himself a suit of chainmail using 3 stone of 8mm split washers.

If any part of my bike was solid as "big Dave", I'd never ride it again.
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PostPosted: 23:42 - 23 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
Tommy wrote:
now it's as solid as a mate called "Big Dave" Thumbs Up


Hope it's not a solid and reliable as my mate "Big Dave" who is frankly, a wee bit off his nut.

He has a collection of knives and has given them womens names. Last time I was round at his house he cooked dinner for five of us in a big cauldron over an open fire in the back garden of his terraced house, despite having a perfectly good kitchen. He also spent three months of his life making himself a suit of chainmail using 3 stone of 8mm split washers.

If any part of my bike was solid as "big Dave", I'd never ride it again.


I take it he's swings a large Axe at Norse re-enactments and is a practicing pagen?
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PostPosted: 00:44 - 24 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
extreme3d wrote:

I take it he's swings a large Axe at Norse re-enactments and is a practicing pagen?


No. That's the worrying thing. If he was into battle re-enactment or something, you might think this was at least vaguely normal behaviour assosciated with a hobby of some sort. As far as I can make out, the chainmail was just something he fancied doing. To the best of my knowledge, he has never worn it outside his house (unless he wears it under his clothes, which wouldn't altogether surprise me).

We did put the chainmail on the back of a chair and fire some arrows at it to see if it worked (it did, withstood a direct hit from a 40lb bow at 10 yards), but that wasn't his idea. The bow is mine, and yes, I was a regular member of an archery club at one point Wink.

EDIT: Oh yeah. He did go through a phase of getting people to try on the chainmail then jumping out on them and stabbing them in the belly with a WW2 bayonet. Of course, this didn't cause any injuries but it is still worrying.

EDIT2: I found a picture of him wearing it. Would you trust this Big Dave to hold your motorbike together?
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PostPosted: 02:44 - 24 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
lol funny stuff Very Happy bags not meating him in a dark alley after a night on the piss Very Happy
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PostPosted: 09:07 - 24 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:

EDIT2: I found a picture of him wearing it. Would you trust this Big Dave to hold your motorbike together?


Physically or mentally?
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PostPosted: 02:29 - 25 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
well he cetanly looks strong enough :d
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