I am anal when it comes to keeping my bike clean, and oil being slung all over the back wheel would be my worse nightmare. Motul Chain Lube is great and does not fling off everywhere. its less than a tenner a can.Scott Oilers are about £85 to buy, so not to expensive but the bikes I have seen them fitted to always seem to be shitty looking with cable ties hold pipes along the swing arm and dirty oil on the wall of the rear tyre and just about everywhere else at the arse end. I don't think it's for me (I'm talking myself out of it as I type) I only ride in good weather and then only cover about 2.5K a year that is about a cans worth of Motul.
It's true, if you don't ride much then there's no need to worry about chain longevity. For me though chain and sprocket life is important, with an oiling system my chain lasts about 30000 miles (about 14 months), the fling factor isn't a problem for me as the bike gets washed every week anyway.
I agree about it not being a real concern with very low mileages being done, and, to be honest I am not relying on the bike as everyday transport. (Summer Fun) I clean my bike each time i ride it unless I'm going out on it again the following day, I do it to get the dead bodies off the screen, headlamps and fairing, the baked flies and bugs off the exhaust headers and radiator guard.Don't say it! I know get a foccing life, but as Darrsi said in an earlier comment, half the fun of owning a bike is the fettling with it.Well it is for me anyhoo
Chain looks a bit taut there Sharpie, you got enough play in it?
Quote from: darrsi on 06 December 2017, 08:30:01 pmChain looks a bit taut there Sharpie, you got enough play in it?Yep - think so, 30-40mm and just touches the underside of the rubber guide when pushed up perhaps its the angle.Think it was a little too slack before - see here, I then pulled the wheel back by 1.4mm
Got me thinking and questioning myself now, there is 1 tighter spot that still touches the guide but needs pushing up a bit harder than the rest. Don't feel or hear anything out of the ordinary but sometimes it would be handy if I just had someone who can give it a wiggle and a second opinion. I measured it before I adjusted it and it was all a good 40mm slack, and easily able to slap it on to the bottom guide and beyond at a measured 40mm.
Quote from: fazersharp on 06 December 2017, 09:26:43 pmGot me thinking and questioning myself now, there is 1 tighter spot that still touches the guide but needs pushing up a bit harder than the rest. Don't feel or hear anything out of the ordinary but sometimes it would be handy if I just had someone who can give it a wiggle and a second opinion. I measured it before I adjusted it and it was all a good 40mm slack, and easily able to slap it on to the bottom guide and beyond at a measured 40mm.If it was way too tight it would grind a bit but you'd hear and feel it, same as if too loose you'd notice excess chain slap.
Quote from: tommyardin on 06 December 2017, 02:18:46 pmI agree about it not being a real concern with very low mileages being done, and, to be honest I am not relying on the bike as everyday transport. (Summer Fun) I clean my bike each time i ride it unless I'm going out on it again the following day, I do it to get the dead bodies off the screen, headlamps and fairing, the baked flies and bugs off the exhaust headers and radiator guard.Don't say it! I know get a foccing life, but as Darrsi said in an earlier comment, half the fun of owning a bike is the fettling with it.Well it is for me anyhoo not just fettling by the sounds of it, replacing fairings and dodging police because of all the people you have ridden into hard enough for there lifeless bodys to stick to the fairing