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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Watson" data-source="post: 127075" data-attributes="member: 38"><p>Hi John. You shouldn't have to adjust the chain for 20 times that far. A decent oring (WXYZ ring!) should go 10,000 miles and have been known to go almost twice that. When you need to give them more than a couple of clicks it is usually because some rings have failed. The last one I changed really taught me. I had adjusted it a couple of times just before hand and looked at what of the chain I could see which appeared to be all good. On the third time I got serious and found a couple of places where a few links in a row were totally failed with a good portion of the chain still looking good. New chain right then and there. I also run the re ringed hardened front and a hardened rear in steel. Before I sourced these I ran anodized alloy ones and several of us found that they go about 10,000 miles and then within a couple of hundred miles just get destroyed. It's easy to spot as the whole rear wheel is covered in alloy shavings, just like an alloy large idler letting go only no bits reaching into every orifice and opening in the engine, but still takes a bit of cleaning up!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Watson, post: 127075, member: 38"] Hi John. You shouldn't have to adjust the chain for 20 times that far. A decent oring (WXYZ ring!) should go 10,000 miles and have been known to go almost twice that. When you need to give them more than a couple of clicks it is usually because some rings have failed. The last one I changed really taught me. I had adjusted it a couple of times just before hand and looked at what of the chain I could see which appeared to be all good. On the third time I got serious and found a couple of places where a few links in a row were totally failed with a good portion of the chain still looking good. New chain right then and there. I also run the re ringed hardened front and a hardened rear in steel. Before I sourced these I ran anodized alloy ones and several of us found that they go about 10,000 miles and then within a couple of hundred miles just get destroyed. It's easy to spot as the whole rear wheel is covered in alloy shavings, just like an alloy large idler letting go only no bits reaching into every orifice and opening in the engine, but still takes a bit of cleaning up! [/QUOTE]
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