04-23-2021, 03:30 PM
Max, do I have it right: you removed the shocks before checking the slack? Then you checked it after first pulling the chain down?
To be clear—sometimes I take a while to understand these things—you put the bike on the centre stand and measured the gap between the swing arm and the chain (54mm). You then pushed the chain down and got a reading of 63mm. Is that right?
Did you check the actual slack from the resting (54mm) position and then from the 63mm position? If so, what was the difference?
I like your idea of having a spot on the chain guide that tells you immediately whether the chain is roughly in spec.
To be clear—sometimes I take a while to understand these things—you put the bike on the centre stand and measured the gap between the swing arm and the chain (54mm). You then pushed the chain down and got a reading of 63mm. Is that right?
Did you check the actual slack from the resting (54mm) position and then from the 63mm position? If so, what was the difference?
I like your idea of having a spot on the chain guide that tells you immediately whether the chain is roughly in spec.