40k miles would last me 40 years. Where do you get yours from. I see renthals £11 front £43 rear (hard anodised )
That's what i mean, you're not racing it and you do minimal mileage so a standard kit will be just fine for your bike. D.I.D. are a well known tried and tested company for chains so they're not gonna lose their reputation by pairing them up with crappy sprockets.
Got to disagree with that. The sets you buy usually come with afam sprockets and they wear very quickly and destroy the chain in the process I doubled my chain life by pairing it with quality sprockets.
They can't be that bad, and as mentioned you push your bike harder than most people so wear and tear is inevitably going to seem that much quicker than normal to you.
But after a quick look, most of the kits i've seen have JT sprocket sets with the chain, so i think it's just a matter of shopping about, but i never found any other negative comments about AFAM sprockets either, which are classed as a race brand, in fact they were all positive.
For the average rider as long as the chain is maintained by being correctly lubed, tightened and is on straight then it should last a very long time, but as you could probably imagine not all of these things are adhered to by some owners. Even a brand new chain can go bad extremely quickly if left neglected out in the elements.
Another thing to mention, i spent decades using proper spray chain lube thinking it was the best thing since sliced bread, yet after trialing using engine oil instead put on with a paint brush i can really see and feel that the chain is in a much better condition than it ever was than when it was gunged up with lube.
Nothing sticks to it any more so it looks cleaner for starters and when the oil is very quickly applied with the paint brush on a warm chain i can immediately see that every single link is getting a good covering, whereas i can now understand that it would be fairly easy to miss just one link using the spray lube which in turn can then become that weakest link that you suddenly feel through your footpeg further down the line.