15,000km

One of the chain manufacturers used to offer a 100,000 mile guarantee if you maintained your chain properly. Sidewinder made a Ti chain and sprocket set they used to warranty for life. It's really hard to say but if you clean and lube every 600 miles (as recommended) and have it perfectly aligned, I'm willing to bet that your chain could last the life of the bike, seriously.:idk: I just replaced the master link on my chain because it blew an o-ring, I think that most people replace chains way before it's necessary. I've seen nasty/rusty industrial chains get soaked in kerosene for a couple days come back to almost new with some elbow grease.

My only chain (cam) sits behind an engine case, and should last for the life of the engine...

:p

Oh, you mean final drive chain. Haven't seen one of those in quite a few years...:rockwoot:




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Pay attention more to the rear sprocket. When it wears out, change all 3 pieces... the front sprocket, chain, and rear sprocket. Unless the change stretchs out beyond adjustment. Then same result on replacement.

I replaced the chain and sprockets on my bike at the rally, I have no clue what the miles were on the previous chain, but the swingarm had adjustment marks, and the old chain was past its limit according to the tick marks. So I replaced it, better safe than sorry

Thats when its time to be replaced.

Tom

Yep total agreement here!

Yeh no shit thats why it got replaced

A bunch of the seals on my last chain started leaking out the grease so I figured its time for a new one. Only had a few thousand miles on it so I was kinda surprised but I think between riding on the construction sites and all the road salt without proper cleaning caused its ealry demise. I am pushing 5k miles on this current chain and all is well.

Tom

Yea my biggest fault has been lack of maintenance. Besides, new chains are so shiny!