Re: [ST] Fwd: For you Tiger riders... and maybe others

[Neil Lindsey <Neil.Lindsey@xxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I noticed that earlier comment about chain wear, and that was the
first time I recall ever having heard of that possibility -- personally
I'm not buying it, and here's why

the thing is...... that the tightest the chain will ever be is when the
rear axle, swingarm pivot, and countershaft sprocket are all in
alignment -- any movement of the rear axle (up or down) will only loosen
the chain slightly and, for a given amount of such movement, and
regardless of the direction, the chain slackening effect should be the
same

so I'm a bit baffled.......

I'm assuming, of course, that chain tension is set correctly in the
first place, which should be no more difficult to achieve with the
eccentric up or down

Neil



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DCioce@xxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 5:48 PM
Subject: [ST] Fwd: For you Tiger riders... and maybe others


> In a message dated 11/7/2005 2:48:17 P.M.  Eastern Standard Time,
> Neil.Lindsey@xxxxxxx writes:
> Doug,
>
> I'm guessing  you didn't notice this in Joel's original post:
>
> "I'm already aware of the  obvious 'raise the forks' and I think one
can
> rotate the rear hub in the  swingarm to drop the rear a little..."
>
> ;-)
>
>
> You're right...my  mistake! Sorry to take up bandwidth with the
obvious!
> :- (
> My bike  was setup with the rear lowered from the dealer (by mistake I
> assume). I was  dragging the center stand on hard cornering in the
mountains and a
> lister  recommended that I rotate the rear hub to see if it raised the
> rear...which it  did. I noticed no unusual chain wear with it in the
lower position
> for 15K  miles.
> Doug
>
>


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