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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: tunnie on 13 September 2011, 11:33:30
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http://www.packjack.ca/
Nice and compact, although need a fairly big one for my GS.
Might do for you bikers who have chains?
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Looks like a handy little tool.Simple ideas are often the best.
Useful for those of us who have removed the mainstand.Takes up a lot less room than a paddock stand. :y
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http://www.packjack.ca/
Nice and compact, although need a fairly big one for my GS.
Might do for you bikers who have chains?
Just check out the price for your belt :o
While you are there check out how much your disk brake costs :o
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http://www.packjack.ca/
Nice and compact, although need a fairly big one for my GS.
Might do for you bikers who have chains?
Just check out the price for your belt :o
While you are there check out how much your disk brake costs :o
What belt? GS is shaft drive ;)
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What belt? It's shaft drive... And what's brake discs got to do with the price of fish?
Any way, you don't need that poxy thing. Engine on, chain lube in right hand, grab the other side pillion handle, or whatever, with left hand and pull the bike over onto the side stand lifting the wheel off the floor.
Back wheel spins enough to just spray the chain lube as it turns. :y
Or easier still, get a mate to hold the front brake on and push the Handel bar on to left lock, then further enough to lift the back wheel off the floor while you lube the chain. Seemples!
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Thats what I do (without mate version) but that little gizmo would just make it that much easier. ;)
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Or just put on main stand
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Or just put on main stand
and if your bike never came with a main stand? ............ ::) ::) ::)
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http://www.packjack.ca/
Nice and compact, although need a fairly big one for my GS.
Might do for you bikers who have chains?
Just check out the price for your belt :o
While you are there check out how much your disk brake costs :o
What belt? GS is shaft drive ;)
Apologies, colleagues bmw has a belt. As for discs, he was complaining about the price of these parts.
Sorry for going very slightly off topic. It's not like anyone else ever goes off topic is it.
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What belt? It's shaft drive... And what's brake discs got to do with the price of fish?
Any way, you don't need that poxy thing. Engine on, chain lube in right hand, grab the other side pillion handle, or whatever, with left hand and pull the bike over onto the side stand lifting the wheel off the floor.
Back wheel spins enough to just spray the chain lube as it turns. :y
Or easier still, get a mate to hold the front brake on and push the Handel bar on to left lock, then further enough to lift the back wheel off the floor while you lube the chain. Seemples!
:D
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What belt? It's shaft drive... And what's brake discs got to do with the price of fish?
Any way, you don't need that poxy thing. Engine on, chain lube in right hand, grab the other side pillion handle, or whatever, with left hand and pull the bike over onto the side stand lifting the wheel off the floor.
Back wheel spins enough to just spray the chain lube as it turns. :y
Or easier still, get a mate to hold the front brake on and push the Handel bar on to left lock, then further enough to lift the back wheel off the floor while you lube the chain. Seemples!
:D
Fish are very expensive this time if year you know... :-?
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Or just put on main stand
and if your bike never came with a main stand? ............ ::) ::) ::)
Mine came with one but I took it off as soon as I got home. ;)
As for the "lube the chain while wheel is being driven by the engine method" Although Ive done it plenty of times, I knew a bloke who lost a thumb while doing it to his motx bike.wasnt paying enough attention and got too close,pulled his thumb into the rear sprocket and mangled it. His hand looked very peculiar after that. ::) ;D
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scottoilers,rule :y
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scottoilers,rule :y
No shaft drive is better :P :P
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You apparently get torque steer with shaft driven bikes when opening the throttle when leant over, which doesnt happen with a chain. Its different tools for different jobs imo. A big heavy tourer - shaft makes sense.It would be ludicrous on any other type of bike though. In which case, a scottoiler is an invaluable tool, which makes chains last almost indefinitely. ;)
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I don't lean the GS over far enough to experience that ;D ;D ;D
Watching TT I was wondering why shaft drive was not considered, races can often be won by just seconds. Yet the rear tyre change on lap3 takes a considerable amount of time. Not to mention amount of times a snapped chain has ended a race winning performance :-/
Its dead simple to replace rear wheel on shaft drive bikes, if they could save 15 seconds in the Pits could be big advantage. Guess on the limit like that though, shaft drive is heavier, and if it does give torque steer that could cause problems too :-/ :-/
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scottoilers,rule :y
:y :y :y
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i thought this thread was a new crime wave..
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I don't lean the GS over far enough to experience that ;D ;D ;D
Watching TT I was wondering why shaft drive was not considered, races can often be won by just seconds. Yet the rear tyre change on lap3 takes a considerable amount of time. Not to mention amount of times a snapped chain has ended a race winning performance :-/
Its dead simple to replace rear wheel on shaft drive bikes, if they could save 15 seconds in the Pits could be big advantage. Guess on the limit like that though, shaft drive is heavier, and if it does give torque steer that could cause problems too :-/ :-/
On sports bikes (and even more so on race bikes) weight is the big enemy, particularily weight in the wrong place.Manufacturers spend millions to lose weight from bikes and shift whats left into the best area to have it.Roughly in the middle of the wheelbase and not too high up. :y
They are setup for quick wheel changes anyway, so I doubt shaft would save much ,if any time.
Endurance racers originally had single sided swingarms to facilitate quick wheel changes,as they had to change a lot of tyres in 8/12 or 24 hour races, and then Tamburini incorporated it into the Ducati 916, just because it looked so cool - in typical Italian fashion.
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As you mentioned before tunnie, torque steer has a big effect but more than you think, it really affects side to side "flickability" especially on a race bike. As Albs said also weight but a shaft drive also absorbs more power because of the way the driveline transmits the power. Most race bikes use a 520 chain as its the smallest size for weight, that can cope with the power, just! Just ask Mr McGuiness about that lol!
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Slightly off topic but mine passed its MOT this morning (after an embarrassing hiccup) with an advisory on front pads - which was nice. :)
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Slightly off topic but mine passed its MOT this morning (after an embarrassing hiccup) with an advisory on front pads - which was nice. :)
But how many miles had it done since its last MOT? TB holds record so far, 170 miles ;D ;D ;D
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1165. :-[ :-[ ::)
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1165. :-[ :-[ ::)
Lol! Just over halfway through my first rear tyre this season! Lol! In June! Lol! Pilot Powers suck,lol!