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Title: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: Slide Panda on October 21, 2013, 04:46:56 AM A painful and costly object lesson on why one should regularly check their chain
Loose Chain Highside Crash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBZWjwHgveY&feature=player_embedded#) Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: Blackout on October 21, 2013, 06:29:45 AM I hate when that happens!
Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: Dirty Duc on October 21, 2013, 08:01:45 AM Looks to me like the rear sprocket was pretty far gone, too.
Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: ab on October 21, 2013, 05:19:35 PM Thought it was the sudden braking that caused the accident in the video.
When I was new rider, I had no idea about chain maintenance at all. As I was exiting a highway and while on ramp, I feel no power and luckily was able to pull over. Found my chain had come off n was hanging on the swing arm. Had to tow her and that's when I learned about lubing chain. Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: nickshelby500kr on October 21, 2013, 05:38:47 PM Thought it was the sudden braking that caused the accident in the video. It was. He locked up the rear and when he let off the rear brake it threw his ass to the ground. Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: HotIce on October 21, 2013, 06:11:34 PM It was. He locked up the rear and when he let off the rear brake it threw his ass to the ground. The chain clearly came off. You can notice it hanging down the swing arm.Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: nickshelby500kr on October 21, 2013, 06:31:19 PM The chain clearly came off. You can notice it hanging down the swing arm. Perhaps result of the highside? Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: Dirty Duc on October 21, 2013, 06:44:39 PM Perhaps result of the highside? Watch the slo mo... the chain came off before the highside, and could have caused it if the links were grabbing at the swingarm and the sprocket/carrier assembly.Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: SDRider on October 21, 2013, 07:19:55 PM Watch the slo mo... the chain came off before the highside, and could have caused it if the links were grabbing at the swingarm and the sprocket/carrier assembly. I'm not sure how. It was completely off the rear sprocket before the lockup and didn't appear to be moving at all and you can see the brake light come on way before the lock and slide. Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: Dirty Duc on October 21, 2013, 07:51:31 PM I should have said "in conjunction with rear brake"
Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: HotIce on October 21, 2013, 10:41:43 PM IMO, for what I see:
Title: Re: Why you need you keep your chain adjusted Post by: Ducatamount on October 22, 2013, 05:41:42 AM Bingo ^
Something happens around the 21 sec. mark as he stands the bike up it bounces and then tries to signal a mechanical problem and... |