14-05-15, 11:07 AM
Hey guys, thank you very much for your replies 
I should add a few things we have looked at so far, without any success.
Running the chain REALLY slack, no difference. Rear wheel bearings and swing arm bearings feel and sound fine with no play in them.
I can't feel any playing the output shaft bearing, but we also suspect that that bearing may have been damaged in the chain was indeed running to tight.
TBH I'm gutted, I put my trusty steed in to a very reputable garage that deal with all major brands to get a simple chain and sprocket set done, and now I think I might have a expensive problem to fix. I think the "trainee numpty" got my bike to work on, and the work wasn't checked properly afterwards. I trusted the dealers to do the job right, but I wish now I'd just bought 2 x the big sockets to fit the rear wheel nuts and did the job myself, at least I know it would have been done right.
Just to note, the noise is rather annoying and intrusive, it takes al the fun and pleasure out of riding the bike, I actually dreaded taking it out for those 200 miles it have done on it trying to bed the chain in.
Has anyone got an old chain they can sell me for cheap? Just to try another chain and eliminate that from the equation? I don't have the original chain or sprockets, I never thought I'd need them again, at the time.
Thanks again for your help people!!!
WTFnow!!
I should add a few things we have looked at so far, without any success.
Running the chain REALLY slack, no difference. Rear wheel bearings and swing arm bearings feel and sound fine with no play in them.
I can't feel any playing the output shaft bearing, but we also suspect that that bearing may have been damaged in the chain was indeed running to tight.
TBH I'm gutted, I put my trusty steed in to a very reputable garage that deal with all major brands to get a simple chain and sprocket set done, and now I think I might have a expensive problem to fix. I think the "trainee numpty" got my bike to work on, and the work wasn't checked properly afterwards. I trusted the dealers to do the job right, but I wish now I'd just bought 2 x the big sockets to fit the rear wheel nuts and did the job myself, at least I know it would have been done right.
Just to note, the noise is rather annoying and intrusive, it takes al the fun and pleasure out of riding the bike, I actually dreaded taking it out for those 200 miles it have done on it trying to bed the chain in.
Has anyone got an old chain they can sell me for cheap? Just to try another chain and eliminate that from the equation? I don't have the original chain or sprockets, I never thought I'd need them again, at the time.
Thanks again for your help people!!!
WTFnow!!