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Phil wrote:....or maintenance and smooth wheelstands....
indeed........heh I have started hanging off the barge like a monkey ! Is this a sign of weakness ?? or just a desperate attempt to generate some credibility onto my kneesliders ?? 
Gosling1 wrote:Phil wrote:....or maintenance and smooth wheelstands....
Gosling1 wrote:Phil wrote:....or maintenance and smooth wheelstands....
thats what i was always told.... a smaller sprocket (losing a tooth) will turn more, therefore wearing quicker....Loz wrote:I have rooted chains in as little as 8,000km despite anal maintenance and lubrication. I blame ze wheeliez.
If you wanna do wheelies, though, here's a tip: don't decrease the size of a sprocket, increase the rear one, same effect, but doesn't cause as much deterioration.
what actually causes the wear with a smaller front sprocket is the reduced radius that the chain is forced to rotate through. A large radius (ie stock or more teeth) lets the chain rotate around a bigger radius. 1 tooth doesn't sound like much, but it can reduce the radius of the front sprocket by a considerable amount, and cause a lot more wear.Neka79 wrote:......thats what i was always told.... a smaller sprocket (losing a tooth) will turn more, therefore wearing quicker....
i know what you mean bout fun factor, all i have to do to get the wheel up since i put the pipe on is look at the thrttle to hard, damn shame thatNeka79 wrote:what is standard gearing??bassmaniac69 wrote:I've got the 525 chain on mine with a 15 front and a 44 rear (that I bought off Matt here) and have put approx 1500km on it so far with no probs.
Not much of an indication of life span I know, but I thought I would chip in
What I can say is that the change really makes the bike boogie down low - the take off is so much better than stock and I reckon it's faster off the line than my old VTR1000 was. It revs really quick now, I've found myself hitting the rev limiter quite a few times.
The down side is that it now max's out at about 180 before it gets stupid, vibration wise. 120 cruise is also a bit of a pain - certainly it's an around town bike now.
I may actually change back to something a bit more sane but for the moment I enjoy it quite a lot!
16-42 from memory??...
as it is, i often run out of revs in 1st gear (esp if up on 1) and it shits me..and this will be worse if i drop a tooth on the front, but it will also make it a bit easier to pop 2nd without as many revs & as much speed...
decisions, decisions....
oh yea..boy this bike is fun...
oh yea im cryiong in my beer too....ProblemChild wrote:i know what you mean bout fun factor, all i have to do to get the wheel up since i put the pipe on is look at the thrttle to hard, damn shame thatNeka79 wrote:what is standard gearing??bassmaniac69 wrote:I've got the 525 chain on mine with a 15 front and a 44 rear (that I bought off Matt here) and have put approx 1500km on it so far with no probs.
Not much of an indication of life span I know, but I thought I would chip in
What I can say is that the change really makes the bike boogie down low - the take off is so much better than stock and I reckon it's faster off the line than my old VTR1000 was. It revs really quick now, I've found myself hitting the rev limiter quite a few times.
The down side is that it now max's out at about 180 before it gets stupid, vibration wise. 120 cruise is also a bit of a pain - certainly it's an around town bike now.
I may actually change back to something a bit more sane but for the moment I enjoy it quite a lot!
16-42 from memory??...
as it is, i often run out of revs in 1st gear (esp if up on 1) and it shits me..and this will be worse if i drop a tooth on the front, but it will also make it a bit easier to pop 2nd without as many revs & as much speed...
decisions, decisions....
oh yea..boy this bike is fun...
stock gearing on the ZRX12R is 17-42, mine does 3500 RPM @ 100 with that ratio, so yours may not have the stock gearing Micksnowymountainsmick wrote:My ZRX1200R will wheelie under accelleration in first easily (and I weight 150+KG!!!!), so it must have a smaller countershaft sprocket. I'll pull the cover off and do a count. About 38-3900RPM at 100Ks.
Apparently! 