Swingarm failure - torque arm mounting point

[noggythenog]

[quote author=noggythenog link=topic=14772.msg168139#msg168139 date=1411746900]
It never crossed my mind that this would need loosening.


Thank foc i never needed to adjust my chain thats all im saying.......even doing my bike lessons they did a quick run around on how to adjust a chain & there was never any mention of some bikes needing torque arm adjustments to do the chain......hardly user friendly is it

the practice is quite common mate,  jI've been doing it for years, but here is just a few links taken during 10 seconds of surfing ...

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q...7554,d.ZGU

http://yamahaclub.com/forums/topic/11628-slack-chain/

http:/ersionclub.proboards.com/thread/3814/removing-rear-wheel-swing-xj600

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=49483.0

I could probably find 000s more but hey, the haynes manual doesnt mention it  :'( so maybe I'm gunna stop bothering and just do something more interesting
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Granted...fair enough....but it isnt exactly intuitive i dont think........some of yous guys have vast experience of bikes so maybe you've learnt it but i still think it is one of those things that is a bit of a oh foc....real simple though....kebab seems to know his stuff and he still got cought out maybe.


Actually....question......i never needed to adjust my chain....if my torque arm was done up tighter than a nuns tights then was it taking the strain that my chain should have been taking and then would my torque arm have exploded........or would a chain still stretch anyway?