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Old 11-02-18, 07:44 PM   #1
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Default Is this sprocket too worn?

Can't decide whether to change this sprocket on my Daytona or whether it's got some life left. What do you think?

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Old 11-02-18, 07:55 PM   #2
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Does the chain need replacing?
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Old 11-02-18, 07:56 PM   #3
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Does the chain need replacing?
No the chains good, bikes only done 8973miles

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Tbh I'd leave it until the chain needs doing, and then do both
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Old 11-02-18, 08:39 PM   #5
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Tbh I'd leave it until the chain needs doing, and then do both
That's exactly what I wanted to hear!

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Old 11-02-18, 08:48 PM   #6
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Ditto, it'll last until chain needs doing.
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Old 11-02-18, 10:08 PM   #7
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Default Re: Is this sprocket too worn?

Maybe a different approach.....
How much does a front sprocket cost and can you do it yourself? If it's maybe £15/20 for a JT or similar and it increases the life of the chain significantly it might be cost effective to change it. If you need to pay to have it done then probably not cost effective.
It's visibly worn, and it tends to give the chain a harder time once it gets significantly out of shape. The refinement also tends to start suffering.
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Maybe a different approach.....
How much does a front sprocket cost and can you do it yourself? If it's maybe £15/20 for a JT or similar and it increases the life of the chain significantly it might be cost effective to change it. If you need to pay to have it done then probably not cost effective.
It's visibly worn, and it tends to give the chain a harder time once it gets significantly out of shape. The refinement also tends to start suffering.
Just a thought.
Yeah worth considering I suppose, I hate cracking front sprocket nuts off!

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Old 11-02-18, 11:27 PM   #9
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I always think that chain and sprockets wear as a set (logical when you consider that as one item wears the load is transferred onto the next so that wears faster and so on) so if any one component is changed its replacement will just wear rapidly until equilibrium is reached again....
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I always think that chain and sprockets wear as a set (logical when you consider that as one item wears the load is transferred onto the next so that wears faster and so on) so if any one component is changed its replacement will just wear rapidly until equilibrium is reached again....
Surely a front sprocket wears around 3 times faster as it has for example 16 teeth as opposed to the rears 40 odd so it each tooth contacts the chain three times for every one of the rears.

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