31-07-13, 08:36 PM
He said you tend to get more wear with a manual tensioner, ie chain stretch.
That doesn't matter on a race bike I guess, where you just wanna make sure the tensioner never jumps.
And I guess while now and again I give my thou a good thrashing, I'm probably still giving it nothing like the abuse a race bike will get.
Oh he also said the failures are kind of random, but more young low mileage bikes than older higher mileage ones.
I'll ask the fella that's checking my valves what he thinks. Fingers crossed at 5000 miles overdue they'll be fine! Pain in the butt getting them done, where ever I go I'm stuck for the best part of the day till I get my bike back. Cafes and book shops here we come. Hope they have a good book shop in Falkirk.
That doesn't matter on a race bike I guess, where you just wanna make sure the tensioner never jumps.
And I guess while now and again I give my thou a good thrashing, I'm probably still giving it nothing like the abuse a race bike will get.
Oh he also said the failures are kind of random, but more young low mileage bikes than older higher mileage ones.
I'll ask the fella that's checking my valves what he thinks. Fingers crossed at 5000 miles overdue they'll be fine! Pain in the butt getting them done, where ever I go I'm stuck for the best part of the day till I get my bike back. Cafes and book shops here we come. Hope they have a good book shop in Falkirk.