Ryan Pile's Adventures in China. Easy Chain Adjustment on Tech Talk
Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast
Adventure Rider Radio | Adventure Motorcycling
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2014
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The I'm Lisa Thomas the other half to ride the world team and you're listening to |
| 0:24.0 | Adventure Rider Radio. |
| 0:28.9 | We got a fun show coming up for you today. We've got Ryan Pyle, a TV personality, |
| 0:33.1 | adventure motorcyclist, and Guinness World Record Holder. |
| 0:36.8 | We also have Grant Johnson from Horizons Unlimited talking about Chain Adjustment. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm Jim Martin. |
| 0:41.5 | This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. |
| 0:48.0 | Today we start off with Adventure Rider Radio's Tech Talk with Grant Johnson from Horizons Unlimited. |
| 0:53.8 | Are you tired of getting on your knees with your tape measure to measure the |
| 0:59.1 | slack and your chain? Well get rid of it because after today you don't need it. Grant's going to walk you through a method to set up your chain adjustment |
| 1:05.9 | so all you have to do is lift it up with your finger or push it up with your finger and you're going to know dead on |
| 1:10.7 | whether it's too loose or too tight. |
| 1:13.0 | Hi Grant, welcome back once again. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, it's great to be back here again. |
| 1:16.8 | Well, this week we're talking about chain adjustment |
| 1:19.4 | and it seems to be one of those misunderstood things |
| 1:22.1 | and another thing that's hotly debated as well. |
| 1:25.4 | Let's start with talking about why a chain needs to be adjusted. |
| 1:30.1 | The biggest problem is that the chain itself is hundreds of bushings. |
| 1:33.9 | The average chain is around 110 links. |
| 1:36.2 | Every one of those links is a bushing and it doesn't take much wear on each |
| 1:40.4 | individual one to equate to a result of a stretched chain. |
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