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Chain life?

Stephen E Hale <seh750@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> My chain appears to be close to death.  It keeps stretching and
> requiring adjustment every couple of hundred miles.  The chain has
> about 13,000 miles, which seems quite low to me.  What kind of life
> are people getting on the original chains on their ST's?

    My original chain lasted 6,000 miles, possibly due to the bike being 
an ex-demonstrator.  The replacement has about 14,000 miles on it and is 
still going strong (touch wood).  It's a DID X-Ring, as recommended by
Jack Lilley.

    For the first 13,000 miles of its life it was lubricated by hand
whenever I remembered; since then I've had a Scottoiler fitted :-)

                Jim
- --
      jim@         ,'_             Given all the short comings of the
  gillespie.org   / -.--.    ___   early spec engines it's better to hang
                 _\_  ~-.`--'_.-'  around the rocking horse stables and
                / /\\    \--'_ \\  hope for a late model to come up.
 '99 Sprint ST  \__/ `---'  \__/                          -- Fizzy Orange


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