Replaced my drive chain and I've been doing research about master link clips and reading scary stories about them failing and awful things happening. How careful do you have to be when installing them? How prone are they to failure? Has it ever happened to you, or anyone you know? More newbie questions but I figure it's better safe than sorry. I'm feeling a bit of the paranoia creeping in.
Thanks.
How do master link clips fail?
Cool. I had to wrestle with mine for a minute before I was able to snap it on, that thing seems to be on there tight. I've only owned an S90 and mopeds before this, and it's interesting how much more care a chain needs on a bigger bike that gets ridden faster and farther. Chains on those smaller bikes never needed to be changed and practically never seemed to need lubed either and lasted. This one lasted a a year. I'll definitely be lubing my chain every 300~ miles from now on. I didn't realize that not doing so was something that could potentially kill you under the wrong circumstances.
@ Akpasta, lube your chain everytime when you need to fill gasoline.
On most bike's that's about a 100~150 mile range, I always concluded that was the best way to remember it, just make a routine out of it. Everytime you fill the tank, you lube the chain. It's less then a minute work, and the hardest part of it is standing up again ! 300 miles I find is not enough, it's better to lube 2 times a little bit, if you lube @ 300miles you lube to much, and you will waste to much, most of the lube will be flying all over your rear wheel rim and tire the first 5 miles ! So lube at every tank-fill , just lube a little less as you would do @ 300 mile. The old saying is, if you chain is getting shiny, your'e to late with lubing ! 'Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.' - Ron Paul
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