How to shorten a chain on a bicycle? Every cyclist asks this question sooner or later. Unfortunately, time combined with intense loads does not spare any mechanism. Likewise, a bicycle chain, at the most inopportune moment, begins to sag and slide off the sprockets, causing a lot of inconvenience to the cyclist.
Today we will tell you how to shorten a bicycle chain at home, provide instructions that will help you shorten a bicycle chain without squeezing, and also outline the main points that will be useful in this process.
Replacing the chain and sprockets of a Honda cb 400 motorcycle with your own hands.
At the end of last season, everyone couldn't get around to replacing the chain and sprockets on my 2000 Honda cb 400 motorcycle. It’s all like “oh well, what’s left to get here” and the like. As a result, it got to the point that when I tightened the chain and sat on the motorcycle at the beginning of this season, the drive sprocket made a terrible crunch. It was impossible to drive like that, the chain and sprockets had to be changed. Naturally, I photographed a small manual for replacing sprockets and a chain on a Honda cb 400, but, in principle, this procedure is standard; on any motorcycle with a chain drive you have to perform the same manipulations. So, as you understand, the manual is suitable not only for the Honda cb 400, but also for other motorcycles by analogy.
Yes, and please don’t laugh at the headlines of newspapers where chain cutting and other operations are carried out! I picked them up at the entrance!)) I don’t read such press myself!)
About when it's time to change the chain and sprockets.
There is no universal advice. That is, some manufacturers, of course, write that “change every 15,000 kilometers,” but this, at best, is just an average indicator of chain wear, and at worst, it’s a marketing ploy, a kind of bait) But in fact In fact, you need to change the sprockets and chain when it’s time to change them
