NightmareSoldier
Member
Thought I might share some odd events that happened over the past two days. The short and sweet of the matter is that after rotating my tire while on a rear stand I began to hear some clicking noises coming from my chain, upon closer inspection I noticed that my chain guide was awfully close to the rod that does all the shifting. After finagling with it trying to get it to align properly I got around to pulling the cover of the front sprocket off only to see something very disturbing, there was no nut or washer and my sprocket was sitting on the threads.
I haven't a clue as to when these pieces went missing and I had rode the bike back to the station (fire station where I live) just the night before, what's crazy to me is that I never noticed, and literally on a whim had decided thE morning after to clean and lube the chain. I had begun and finished up cleaning my air filter the night before and was almost content with only doing that and just riding my bike as usual. But something made me decide to clean that chain and potentially prevent a catastrophic failure at speed. Adding to the randomness of events I also, just the day before, decided I was going to restock my cleaning supplies for the bike, and I really almost didnt clean the chain. It was raining in my area and i was just going to wait till the next day to get it all done with. Long winded I know, but Just had to tell the world that I came very close to danger!
On a totally random note, anyone in the Woodbridge, Va area stay away from Coleman Powersports for maintenance, Im sure they may do a bang up job but I got a quote for a 32,000mi service at almost a grand, and found another "pro yamaha" shop doing it for $425. They're crooks!
I haven't a clue as to when these pieces went missing and I had rode the bike back to the station (fire station where I live) just the night before, what's crazy to me is that I never noticed, and literally on a whim had decided thE morning after to clean and lube the chain. I had begun and finished up cleaning my air filter the night before and was almost content with only doing that and just riding my bike as usual. But something made me decide to clean that chain and potentially prevent a catastrophic failure at speed. Adding to the randomness of events I also, just the day before, decided I was going to restock my cleaning supplies for the bike, and I really almost didnt clean the chain. It was raining in my area and i was just going to wait till the next day to get it all done with. Long winded I know, but Just had to tell the world that I came very close to danger!
On a totally random note, anyone in the Woodbridge, Va area stay away from Coleman Powersports for maintenance, Im sure they may do a bang up job but I got a quote for a 32,000mi service at almost a grand, and found another "pro yamaha" shop doing it for $425. They're crooks!