manual camchain tensioner fitment guide

[nick crisp]

[quote author=nick crisp link=topic=8884.msg94565#msg94565 date=1376587894]
Not everyone is knowledgeable enough to identify the noise a rattling chain makes - some people just ride their bikes and let their mechanic do all the worrying for them. Nothing wrong with that, except of course you won't know when your cam chain is about to cause mayhem! Perhaps such people are ideal candidates for a manual tensioner?!

I don't follow this logic - if you are mechanically inept and can't recognize the noise made by a loose camchain you should have a manual tensioner that requires mechanical competence to adjust as and when when you recognize your camchain is noisy?

If you're the kind of guy that lets a mechanic do all the worrying then it's not going to make any difference what tensioner you have fitted, unless you think there is a fair chance the automatic one will fail in which case it's safer to have a manual one fitted
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Sorry, yes I think you're right, guess I'm too tired to think straight tonight! :\