In need of a new chain

[T0mm0]

Hi,

I've done nearly 20,000 miles on the original sprockets and chain and think I'm in need of a new set. I telephoned a Suzuki dealer and enquired about how much it would cost.

£90 for a chain, £30 for new sprockets and about £50 to fit. Are they having laugh ? or is this a realistic cost. I've seen an advert on Ebay selling the chain, front and rear sprockets for £90 plus £10 p&p.

I'm quite happy to fit the sprockets myself and have a garage fit the chain, how much should I expect to pay ? Suzuki said fitting a chain would still cost !!!!!

Does anyone know of any good suppliers (SE London, Kent area) or websites I could use ???

I would appreciate any help or advice.

Thanks
T0mm0
Incidently I have a SV650S K4.

[Biker Biggles]

Most small bike shops will do a supply and fit a quality C&S kit for about £130.
Simpler than DIY unless you can do the riveting up as well.(And do it properly) :lol:

[Scoobs]

Rip off.

You can get some decent kit for round about the £100 mark. Fit the sprockets yourself and get a garage to do the chain. Probably cost you a tenner. You can do it yourself, but a rivetter costs £50.

[rigor]

Yeah, I bought a oem suzuki sprain and chockets from a dealer for 90-blah pounds, had a bash at fitting the rivet link, messed it up, then paid a garage a tenner to fit it properly :P

[T0mm0]

Do you know of any good websites where I can buy this from ?

Having never needed a new chain before, i dont know any myself other than paying local bike shop prices.

[kwak zzr]

try these-
http://www.busters-accessories.co.uk/

http://www.mandp.co.uk/home.aspx

http://www.jsaccessories.com/

[Paws]

Try your local hein gercke hun.
Ive gota gold x ring d.i.d chain,renthal front sprocket and renthal hard anodised rear sprocket for around £100 (well less with my staff discount)

[T0mm0]

Thanks for the help.

I think James (Hall13uk) works for Hein Gericke, so I shall give him a pm.

I'll also look at the websites you posted Kwak.

Thanks
Andy

[peterco]

You could also try......

www.bfmmotorcycles.co.uk


pete

[Scoobs]

and

http://www.bandcexpress.co.uk/

[petevtwin650]

I got over 30 thou outta my first chain without a scottoiler. I believe the suzuki chain set is reasonable. They should quote a price for the whole kit. As it's an endless chain the swingarm has to come out, but I prefer this idea to a rivetted in situ chain. And a chain rivetter is about 50 quid but the special socket that is reqiured for the swing arm bolt is 70quidish. Expensive but very useful for suspension maintenance.

[Viney]

Tommo

Get ya ass either to Watlings in Catford or over to Essential Rubber in N1. C&S £130 all in.

[jambo]

As it's an endless chain the swingarm has to come out, but I prefer this idea to a rivetted in situ chain.

Quite true, Suzuki OEM is endless but comes with a rivet link so if you carefully dremmel off a link and replace it with the rivet link all should be well. Doesn't come with a split link though and a common comprimise is to get a chain with a split and rivet link do it up with the rivet link, take it to a garrage and give them £5 - £10 to fit the rivet link only.

[the_runt69]

Agree with the Watlings at Catford, fitted a new DID X ring for £80 but I didnt need the sprokets.

H

[21QUEST]

OE cost £96 disregarding the small print on price so the £120 the dealer quote for the chain and sprocket sound a bit steep :? :roll: .

http://www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/partdetail.asp?id=100264&m=24

I might go for the OE next time myself as to be honest they seem to last as well as the Superduper triple XYZ after-market chains. Never gave them a thought as expected them to be a lot more going from previous experience of OE chains.

Cheers
Ben

[Sir Trev]

...but the special socket that is reqiured for the swing arm bolt is 70quidish. Expensive but very useful for suspension maintenance.

Where the hell did you go to get this? I tried three dealers (the Haynes manual even prints the part number) but they all refused to sell it to me!! I made one eventually which worked fine but it would have been much easier if I could bought one!!

note - this is not uinique. My elderly Vauxhall Cavalier has very wierd "spoked" bolts holding the distributor cover on - I could not clean the thing when the old girl started missing at the weekend and the garage charged me an arm and a leg yesterday for parts and labour :smt093 . Still, it runs better now...