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From: Beav on 2 Mar 2010 11:53

"The Older Gentleman" <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Gyp <address_is(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> "TOG(a)Toil" <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>
>> > They were ftting endless chains to big Japanese bikes (Z900s, GS
>> > Thous, etc) in the mid-1970s.
>> >
>>
>> Can someone explain in simple terms why a split link is less robust than
>> a rivitted link?
>
> On modern chains, they aren't, really. The sideplatesof the split link
> goes onto tapered pins - you really have to force the plate on. The clip
> is really belt & braces stuff.
>
> There's no lateral force on the sideplate, so little chance of knocking
> off the clip.

Well not unless the "garage" that fitted the chain made sure the run was
true. If not, the side forces can be more than enough to pop a side plate
off if it's held only by a split springy thingy.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19


From: platypus on 2 Mar 2010 18:49

"Beav" <beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message
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>> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>> drugs began to take hold. I remember totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The
>> Older Gentleman) saying something like:
>>
>>>They really needed 'em, yes. My old CB750F1 was the last model Honda
>>>made with the old weedy chain
>>
>> The first model CB750 was notorious for snapping 'em at the cost of a
>> lot of crankcase damage, although this tended to happen earlier than it
>> would have on a SOBB.
>> A mate had his snapped by an MoT tester who couldn't resist taking it
>> out for a spin around the block (it only being out a couple of years at
>> that time and it was the first one he'd been on - big Jap fours were
>> still a rarity Notb). Much sturm and drang ensued when the crankcase
>> damage became known, but the MoT guy saved his bacon when he spotted
>> that the chain was actually made of several pieces of shite old BSA
>> /Norton/Triumph chains riveted together; the owner being a notoriously
>> tight-arsed git.
>> Not surprising it snapped.
>
> My pal's SV650 was >< that close to needing a crankcase when his split
> link "let go" and the chain bailed out. I riveted a replacement chain on
> and it didn't spit the new one off. It really put me off using split link
> fasteners.

I had a split link on the VFR once. I think Brownz has a picture of it.


From: Beav on 5 Mar 2010 15:30

"platypus" <monotreme(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Beav" <beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote in message
> news:Rmbjn.186891$zD4.39758(a)newsfe19.ams2...
>>
>> "Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:vddqo5ttphu6ua9iqjsfdm2ck3bu54luak(a)4ax.com...
>>> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>>> drugs began to take hold. I remember totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The
>>> Older Gentleman) saying something like:
>>>
>>>>They really needed 'em, yes. My old CB750F1 was the last model Honda
>>>>made with the old weedy chain
>>>
>>> The first model CB750 was notorious for snapping 'em at the cost of a
>>> lot of crankcase damage, although this tended to happen earlier than it
>>> would have on a SOBB.
>>> A mate had his snapped by an MoT tester who couldn't resist taking it
>>> out for a spin around the block (it only being out a couple of years at
>>> that time and it was the first one he'd been on - big Jap fours were
>>> still a rarity Notb). Much sturm and drang ensued when the crankcase
>>> damage became known, but the MoT guy saved his bacon when he spotted
>>> that the chain was actually made of several pieces of shite old BSA
>>> /Norton/Triumph chains riveted together; the owner being a notoriously
>>> tight-arsed git.
>>> Not surprising it snapped.
>>
>> My pal's SV650 was >< that close to needing a crankcase when his split
>> link "let go" and the chain bailed out. I riveted a replacement chain on
>> and it didn't spit the new one off. It really put me off using split link
>> fasteners.
>
> I had a split link on the VFR once. I think Brownz has a picture of it.

I think you're thinking what I think you're thinking and I find that remark
racially amusing.

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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19
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