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27-09-2019, 12:37 AM | #1 |
No turn left unstoned
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: leicester
Bike: M750
Posts: 4,554
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Does nobody know how to cut a chain to length anymore ?
I've had occasion to buy two chains for the monster this year.
First one was as a result of snapping a chain in the Isle of Man. Luckily this was just 50yds from the tent. A rather hairy ride into Douglas on wet roads on a borrowed 310cc (?) Husquvarna crosser with full on knobblies saw me back at the tent that afternoon with a new chain. Imagine my pleasure when I realised (just after the shop had shut) that the guy had cut it one link too short .. despite having the old chain to compare with. That chain was a non o-ring, motocross chain with a clip link, as I had no tools with me to fit a rivet link at the time, and so .... Today I took delivery of a new, o-ring chain to replace it with. This time the chain arrived with 100 links instead of the 98 that I specified. It wasn't just a stock control error .. the chain had been cut to this length especially for me. I don't really wish to moan but maybe a small sigh is in order after having two wrong length chains supplied in the same summer. Then again the world has gone mad in recent years so perhaps I should have expected it. |
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