Chain tension tool?

[wankel7]

http://www.quikadjuster.com/

What are your thoughts on this?

I thought you had to have the rear wheel off the ground to set the slack? I guess you could use it with the bike on a rear stand.


James

[The_Jackel]

most stupid thing I have seen in a while, this is why americans are fat, please dont waist your money, talk about marring up your swingarm

[rforsythe]

http://www.quikadjuster.com/

What are your thoughts on this?

I thought you had to have the rear wheel off the ground to set the slack? I guess you could use it with the bike on a rear stand.


James

Quick lesson in mechanics: The point of having the bike off the rear wheel (which is not necessary) is to unweight the swingarm. It has nothing to do with the tire actually touching ground. If you put the bike on a rear stand all you're doing is moving the tire up without actually taking the weight off the back.

With the tire on the ground, adjust the chain manually so you have about an inch of movement give or take, when flexed up and down in the middle of the lower section between your rear wheel and front sprocket. You definitely don't need a special tool to do this, and really it will take you just as long with or without it. The slack should be pretty close but a little wiggle room is fine. Just make sure the axle is aligned so you don't prematurely wear the sprockets/chain and bearings.

[Ricky]

Even the manual for my bike says to leave the bke on the ground, on its kickstand when adjusting slack.

[ChrisCBX]

The Quikadjuster appears to be a solution to a non-existing problem.

[Bueller]

If you pay $ for something so simple you deserve to have your $ stolen from you

[The_Jackel]

Even the manual for my bike says to leave the bke on the ground, on its kickstand when adjusting slack.

I wouldn't take everything the manual says as a proper method. Having "your" bike on a rear stand will put the same weight if not alittle more on the rear suspension, which will change the chain slack just like the weight on its kickstand. Which is actually better, but the most important thing is that your not "pulling" the wheel and axle back with 200+ pounds of weight on it, which could mar your adjusters, swingarm and spacers, and rear brake bracket.

Most factory services only replace the oil filter every second oil change, which I really disagree with (so when people go to the dealer and expect the best service ever, they will be mistaken) You have to use common sense and dont plan on the manufacturers knowing everything just because they made the bike.

[Ricky]

Meh, believe what you want to believe about the dudes who engineered the bike. Some things in the manual are over protective, sure, but here's the thing: The manual recommendations for chain adjustment are for while the bike is on its kickstand. If you are not on the kickstand, then the supplied measurements aren't as accurate, now are they? So to adjust your chain slack on a stand, would need a different measurement, than when it's on its kickstand. But to adjust your chain slack on a stand, using measurements recommended by the mfr, isn't the right way either.

Yeah yeah, I know we're talking about rough measurements, but you can't argue that the chain slack is slightly different when on a rear stand, than when on its kickstand.

My whole point was that you can just leave the damn bike on the ground and adjust the chain. It doesn't need to be this gigantic process of putting it on a stand, and using some crazy alignment tool (And no, I'm not saying it doesn't need to be aligned either), even though you can.