Rear sprocket, alloy or steel?

[Bruce CurtisMember]

menace wrote:

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Mr Blue wrote:

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menace wrote:

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youll be right mate….it takes power to wear them out:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Oh now I understand why my KTMs chain and sprockets hardly wore at all in 100 hrs of riding the ring off it.

Thanks Menace for clearing that up

BC

there are 2 points there….

1) KTM factory sprockets and chains are just plain tuff:laugh: Ahh this explains the broken hubs on some KTMs
2) you ride like a sloth:P Damn those three big toes are a bugger to get boots to fit and keep getting the way too, also explains why I keep trying to put myself up trees

Again thanks oh sageful one Mr Menace, so why do they chain and sprockets of the same brand and type wear so much faster on my YZ?

BC

[dennis da menaceMember]

cause they dont want to be on an inferior bike, i dont blame them.

they want to die so they can be on a kato in thier next life…..

higher ground is the theory:laugh: :laugh:

[Bruce CurtisMember]

menace wrote:

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cause they dont want to be on an inferior bike, i dont blame them.

they want to die so they can be on a kato in thier next life…..

higher ground is the theory:laugh: :laugh:

Ah so explains the frames on KTMs they snap so they can come back as baked bean or beer cans.

BC

[glennMember]

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[Anonymous]

I had over 4000Km’s out of my front sprocket too. Pretty impressive. The only reason my rear was so bad was beacuse the chain rollers disintegrated and wore the rear sprocket and 20 times the normal rate. She would have been good for another couple of thousend K’s otherwise :laugh:

[scott bockingMember]

Boony wrote:

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There is a karma point for you Boony. You make perfect sense of the madness. If in doubt, beer:laugh:

[GregMember]

Moto wrote:

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I had over 4000Km’s out of my front sprocket too. Pretty impressive. The only reason my rear was so bad was beacuse the chain rollers disintegrated and wore the rear sprocket and 20 times the normal rate. She would have been good for another couple of thousend K’s otherwise :laugh:

That’s what I was saying before regarding to chains to a hardened sprocket.

Maintenance will help you in the future Moto

TB

[Anonymous]

Poo happens, it’s all gravy baby

[glennMember]

singletrackmind wrote:

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Boony wrote:

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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM BEER

There is a karma point for you Boony. You make perfect sense of the madness. If in doubt, beer:laugh:

cheers hippo hips

[Bruce CurtisMember]

We used to thoroughly clean and then boil our chains in Duckhams grease, sprocket were hardened steel, and they lasted a fair while, with the advent of “O’ringed” self contained lubricant chains for pin to roller lubrication it negates the need to worry about getting lube in manually, but no-one seems to think about roller to sprocket lubrication, I have heard people saying that if you lube the outer rollers it forms a grinding paste, possibly, but to my thinking it also gives a film of lubricant betwix the two hardened steel surfaces as as the movement is less rub and more roll, wouldn’t it make sense to continue to lube the roller to sprocket contact area as well?

I do and I don’t get anywhere near the wear I read others do, but I am a very old bull in terms of ride time, so maybe I am wrong and clinging on to old practices no longer relevant, in a modern world.:unsure:

How did your rollers fail Moto, clean it with the wrong compound and broke the O’ring materials down or sumfink?

BC

[alanMember]

i reckon just run a normal steel sprocket with a x ring chain no point runing expensive sprockets because they only stuff up when your chain wares out and you don t put a expensive chain on old sprockets.theres bugger all difference in weight between a stealth sprocket and a normal steel one but they look pritty bling bling

[TrentMember]

Rider’s edge said pretty much the same thing only that they recommended a hardened front because it gets the most wear.

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