chain info - loose ends

**euphonius** · 02-25-2011, 02:32 AM

this thread contains posts from http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/sh...0-Enduro/page2 moved by jape, as requested. Your wishes are our command! When they make sense that is, like this ...

Originally Posted by jape

Yeah, that is brilliant. Many, in fact just about everyone would never work that out. So important a factor that would solve so many issues where people have given up by then - that I think China V is now duty bound to write a short pictorial tutorial covering all the points of sprocket changing we mere mortals miss/forget/confuse ourselves with? It will be a sticky.

I agree this is truly a brilliant, if totally counterintuitive, post and image. What I'd want to know is the implications of the change to a 428 chain. Is that a thinner/weaker chain? Hell, a quick/simple tutorial on chains would be brilliant, now that we are placing orders. What is a 520 and a 428? (Isn't that a euphemism for marijuana?) What's an o-ring chain and what are the alternatives, and is one a 520 and the other a 428?

OK, here's a link purporting to tell "all about motorcycle chains" and it answers my o-ring questions, but not the gauge questions.

Oh! Hey, this is good on sprockets and chain gauges! Though it doesn't really tell me how to determine what I should be using for my bike.

It's a start, anyway.

cheers