(30-07-15, 12:04 AM)Grahamm link Wrote: Got halfway through changing my sprockets and chain, but it turned out to be a hell of a lot more difficult than I'd expected!

Firstly it's a bugger of a job loosening the front sprocket nut with the tool Yamaha give you in the underseat kit, as there's barely enough clearance to get it in place, so you need to do a bit at the top between the frame and the gear linkage, then a bit underneath, then back to the top... (next time I'm going to buy a 32mm socket and a breaker bar!)

Then breaking the chain was a PITA as, for some reason the tool wouldn't push the pin right through, so eventually some wiggling with a flat-head screwdriver got it apart.

After that, getting the rear wheel off was also a bugger of a job as the axle wouldn't slide out easily (eventually I used the rubber mallet I normally use for tent pegs to bang it out!)

Then I had to look up a video on how to rejoin a chain because the instructions which came with the chain tool were incomprehensible and it took a long time before I was sure the joining link rivets were peened over enough so I kept checking with a set of calipers until the link was the same width as the other ones in the chain.

Finally I had to use the mallet again on the socket wrench to get the bolts on the rear sprocket to come loose, but then (as detailed elsewhere) I didn't know how to tighten the new ones sufficiently, and it was getting dark so I decided to call it a day at that point and finish off tomorrow!

(30-07-15, 11:23 AM)JoeRock link Wrote: It's a lot more fun taking a chain apart wth an angle grinder you know  :lol

(29-07-15, 05:45 PM)hairnet link Wrote: had to really

weather was shite on saturday very windy - the bad stuff norfolk and suffolk got happened in holland germany on sat

this was on way back to dusseldorf after the weather cleared up - lucky as setting off the morning after to the hook for the boat it pissed down at leerdam and didnt stop so was lucky to do 70

had 185 kmh here before but new record  - bike was showing 151 mph

(30-07-15, 10:28 AM)Dead Eye link Wrote: using the thou to jump it to get enough power to run the starter long enough to get the bike started.

It was rather reluctant, but eventually started with no choke and no throttle - it seemed to really not like either of these when starting