Rear tire being shredded by my chain.
#1
Rear tire being shredded by my chain.
My chain appears to be shredding the sidewall on my tires.
I got about 3 - 4000kms on these new tire before i started to notice this slight wear. Two or three days later, they looked like the above picture.
I thought it had to do with an aftermarket chainguard I installed, and ai was actually going to make a separate post about them, becausr Ive had nothing but problems with them, but I switched back to the stock plastic one and it still got worse.I changed my chain and sprockets, (which I've done before with no issue, stock size, 550 DID riveted)
I got about 3 - 4000kms on these new tire before i started to notice this slight wear. Two or three days later, they looked like the above picture.
I thought it had to do with an aftermarket chainguard I installed, and ai was actually going to make a separate post about them, becausr Ive had nothing but problems with them, but I switched back to the stock plastic one and it still got worse.I changed my chain and sprockets, (which I've done before with no issue, stock size, 550 DID riveted)
#2
What size is the rear tire? Wheel/spacers installed on the axle correctly? Bike ever been wrecked? Bent frame/swingarm? Running the correct drive flange for the sprocket?
Just throwing stuff out there...a lot of stuff can happen to a bike over 20 years.
Just throwing stuff out there...a lot of stuff can happen to a bike over 20 years.
Last edited by captainchaos; 05-26-2018 at 09:58 AM.
#3
The rear tire is stock size. Nothing bent. Im not sure about the wheel spacers. Ive never removed them. Looking at the manual, everything seems right. I must have screwed up something. She's had no issues for 20,000 + kms I've put on her. Is there more detaile informationd about the spacers cap?
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Sorry to trouble you cap. It turns out, stainless steel passenger peg spacers I made, weren't quite out far enough. This was causing my exhaust hanger to rub on my tire....what a costly mistake...
#8
I still don't know why the chain uard bends and breaks, but I suspected it was the culprit until I changed it back to the stock one, and the tire still got shredded. I thought the information may have been relevant to a diagnosis, ie, swingarm or some such issue
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