| Thanks for the reply Fordie, am at a loss to why it has gone slack so quickly? When I lubed it night before the ride out on Sunday I noticed it was very slightly slacker than normal but not enough to worry bout adjusting as I always prefer to have them slightly slack than too tight. Bike was in Ducati Leeds about 500 miles previous to this weekend and chain checked ok.
One thing I did notice on the way up to Scotland on Sunday was a very faint on off whirring noise that I had never noticed before. Hard to explain but is was like Whirr (for half a second) then silence (for half a second) wondered at the time if it was chain related. Actually thought of Eon (overipe&keen) as I remember a year or so back him saying he had a similar noise on his Multi that he never got to the bottom of.
Got some of info from tinternet as well as Fordie on and the length of each link should be 15.875mm so 16 links = 254mm or 10 inch. Well I got the steel rule out and 16 links on mine is about 258 - 260 mm depending which section of chain I measured. Which over 104 links is 39mm or approx 2.5 extra links worth of chain. Which is knocking on for 2.5% stretch that I had read was the limit before it was time to replace the chain.
I suppose the 11000 miles have been pretty hard and the bike has been thrashed to Monaco and back and hammered round the dales on a regular basis so I suppose I cant complain. Was just alarmed at how suddenly it went so loose.
Never kept a bike long enough to need a chain before, Will I need chain and both sprockets? Have not seen front sprocket but rear looks fine, no hooking etc. Was thinking of dropping a tooth on the front anyway and may go with one of them TSBUKKAKE chains everyone raves about.
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