How To shorten a Motorcycle Chain!

This video shows you how to shorten a motorcycle chain. This is not to be done to old chains this is for when you have a new chain that is too long.
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[@robertcrank4116]

You got that spot on about the split link its actually an MOT fail if the open end goes with the rotation of the wheel so always good to keep in mind when the link is at the top of the chain open end back, crackin video

[@stevencallen1153]

I realize I am kinda off topic but does anyone know of a good site to stream newly released movies online?

[@thatchertheodore9691]

@Steven Callen I use flixzone. You can find it by googling :)

[@ferdsan9025]

@@stevencallen1153 stupid

[@maycrotch8576]

This video was useful this evening spicy. I showed this to a friend who was doing this very thing. He'd been stuck without it.🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@maycrotch8576]

Cheers for these type of vids. Believe me, I need all the help I can get and your vids are the go to vids. 👍👍👍

[@Rick58Rowland]

Thanks for this great instructional, very well done, comprehensive and complete! If you ever make it over to the US, look me up in the fat western end of South Carolina, home to some of the best twisties on this continent!! I'll be glad to show you around! Cheers!

[@anesthetized7053]

i appreciate the warning about using this method on old chain. my chain is definitely old and needs replaced but i considered just removing a couple links for now. i think ill hold off until i can get a new chain.

[@richardpearson4248]

Great video nice job stay safe looking forward to next one 🇬🇧👍🏻

[@Dead_Assassin]

The chain tension bolts actually aid keep both side wheel straight with the chain and between swngarm. You should measure there. Wheel and swing arm

[@aarontaylor2815]

Thank you for showing all of us this in purticular me, I have been wanting to know how to do this lol

[@keavincosta7761]

Thank you so much, I was losing my mind trying to figure this out

[@louisjgb8283]

Thanks for the lesson 👍

[@craigmonteforte1478]

My first video of yours. I watched it more out of Curiosity than any other reason I’m glad you cleared up what those Skateboard Whhels were for as it did Stump The Chump (Me ) for a moment Years ago I rode a Cruiser style Motorcycle as my daily Commuter and I had a freind following me one day who caught up with me at a traffic light. She was freaking out because when I went around turns there were Sparks coming off the Bike ! it turned out my foot pegs were grinding on the pavement , and those had a Steel plate on the bottom ? I thought your Skateboard wheels might had been. A DIY item for either storage or maintenance to fit in a specific stand or lift

[@audiomonster303]

Awesome sauce! Now off to the grinder!!!!!! Thanks mate

[@j.rothchild173]

You are the best of the wild west!! thks!!

[@6145822]

Nicely done

[@connersnow298]

Awesome vid and edits and filming and bike

[@daedaetinez6406]

Thanks for this video!! Not very many videos on taking one link off. Great full!! 💪🏽🙏🏼👍🏼😎

[@adolfshitler]

I also have no problems with and use clips on chains, I have the same Halfords screwdrivers as you, I have a supermoto, I also grind the rivets down before splitting links and finally I'm also 6'4" as you are I believe! It's a funny old world!

[@01322521959]

Just had a new chain fitted by a Honda dealer out here in Bangkok, armed with your advice I'll head back and have them sort the chain as it's half way through adjustment and brand new.

[@edwardquick1032]

Best video everything I needed to know

[@thefirstbushman]

I'm about to do the same maybe keeping a new chain on me as a backup, I just ran out off tensioning room as well and had a terrifying slap all they way back home

[@Zhaganashi]

7:55 😂😂 you got me!

[@spicy110]

Haha I forgot about that 😄

[@IOWNick]

love that chain tool, looks so much easier to use than the other type! may have to treat myself! great vid as always :) much love from the isle of wight!!!

[@spicy110]

This one was a cheap one but has lasted 10 lifetimes in my hands as I used to to split a lot of chains in to keychains.

[@charlesscottkelly]

I just got a new chain and sprocket set on my bandit 600 only to find out it has no adjustment left on it So I take it it's the wrong chain or sprocket set they have fitted.

[@MadNath]

Good informative video as always. What make is your front sprocket?

[@spicy110]

JT I think

[@harvpot8439]

I bought some rhok jeans and I love riding in them and it’s encouraged me to wear the rest of my gear too.

[@spicy110]

Good stuff, I live in them. If you have bad knees it really helps kneeling haha

[@harvpot8439]

@@spicy110 I might sound like an idiot but I put some shoulder protectors in the knees because the normal ones felt too spiky but the shoulder protectors fit nicely and come out a very quickly.

[@spicy110]

Haha if it works it works

[@tamishagraves5989]

This Ty on his spouse channel. I own a 1997 P2 model Zx7r 750cc Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle. I got new 525 chain on which is to big it hangs...links need to come out. So this my idea, I want to order 525 15t front sprocket and 525 45t rear wheel sprocket. I'm not certain whether that would remove the slack or I need to remove say 6 to 8 links out of the new 525 chain that is now on bike ? The current sprockets are 17t front vortex and 43t rear niche. If I leave what I have right now on bike remove the 6 to 8 links. Will i need to get ne 525 chain upon buying the correct matching 525 sprockets ?

[@jamesseibel416]

I keep going further and further back and im almost out of adjustment, what would cause that?

[@r.a.chadwick4689]

What is interesting about a "530" chain being larger than at "520" chain? 30> 20. Being smart ass, it was kind of cool to see the difference I never had a 530 chain. I"m on a measly 420!

[@michaelmumford8918]

Did u reuse the post u grinded off or did u have extras?

[@natesv04]

When you buy a master link it comes with everything new

[@liamgirouard4076]

I got up to grinding down my chain buy im having trouble getting this link off still have any suggestions?

[@spicy110]

if the pin ends are fully ground down a screwdriver in the middle would get it apart.

[@maycrotch8576]

BALIKESIR!!!!!!

[@Ravan_Caw]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@cdubbleyoo]

Anyone want to have a discussion about chain tension going out of spec after the axle nut has been tightened to spec torque? I mean, you go ahead. I'll watch.

[@CheekyKlapper]

Bruuuh

[@JohnnyboyGeelen]

I am going to do this to a old chain

[@spicy110]

Well, let's hope it doesn't cost you an engine or worse.

[@xtrotic7320]

I'm so affraid to try this myself, and I don't have the chain tool for it

[@toddbenfield6546]

Use a punch

[@dalewhitting6818]

Don't have to even do what he did can move wheel back and just adjust he did this to get lot more out his chain

[@stevenmullen8402]

I just got a longer bike easy.

[@spicy110]

Hahaha 🤣

[@okuz1072]

Cab you just grinf them

[@seatime674]

Why do you say not to remove a link if you have an older chain. Also why do some chains have rubber O-rings and some don't, have a wr450 I think that's a 520 with no O-rings

[@spicy110]

Because when I chain is old and stretched out people think they can take a link out to make it last longer, if you do that odds are very high it will snap and that can lead to either you getting very hurt or the bike can get badly damaged. The idea of o-Rings is to hold an amount of grease on the pins and keep water out. This should make it last much longer especially if you ride off-road.

[@seatime674]

@@spicy110 Yeah I put on a smaller rear sprocket now I have to take a llink out and make it a 113 link so rather than spend $10 on a master link I just bought a brand new 120 link non oring for $20 and will just take 7 links out.... 18 year old chain why take a chance👌

[@rickgage8034]

Dont pin it on me but there are sealed linked chains with grease already in them they are just just a lil maintenance friendlier still lube it though but yeah so many chains out their anyway how does it seal the chain well with those rubber rings

[@user-gf3kw1be7o]

Me watching the whole video lnowing im using to get more life out of my chain, but anyway good video

[@spicy110]

Look up snapped chain injuries, then make your mind up. It's on you at the end of the day.

[@Dragon22078]

Is that a skateboard wheel?

[@spicy110]

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[@tonyb.7079]

is it just me or is your axle bolt not the right size?

[@spicy110]

It's just you.

[@markporter45]

When you touched your mate's rear wheel I was shouting Nooooooooooo😮

[@spicy110]

Huh? My mate's wheel?

[@Ebrhrr]

🌹👍

[@mrsmith697]

do not think you notice any diffrens at all..

[@spicy110]

My jokes are too dry haha but I have noticed it is lifting the front easier however I agree it didn't reduce the length as much as I thought and I recon what I noticed was a nicely tensioned chain. The main point of this was to just get a fair life out of it. 👍

[@adolfshitler]

@@spicy110 Don't lift your wheel, the courts will hang you out to dry if brought before them! I've stopped doing it now I know the penalties!

[@Jamie-EH]

Still the wrong size tho? Thought original is 140 not 150, asking not correcting you.

[@spicy110]

There is little in it but there are more options in 150. Also a 150 fits perfectly on a 4.5 in rim and maintains the correct profile. so there is no reason not to.

[@dalewhitting6818]

Could he not just adjust the chain once he moved wheel back instead of taking links out

[@spicy110]

You seem to fundamentally not understand what or why I am doing this video, This is for when your buy a chain that is too long. You only have a few cm adjustment so if your chain is 7 links too long it's never going to fit is it.

[@danielthompson6010]

@@spicy110 What a rude reply. He was asking a genuine question and you respond like that. No wonder your channels going down hill.

[@forevercomputing]

Delboy: Top tip - get the most out of your chain and make it last longer. Perfect for a chain that has covered over 10,000 miles... /facepalm

[@philtlumach]

Is that a supermoto????

[@spicy110]

yes

[@philtlumach]

@@spicy110 yeaaaaaaaa

[@deeeznutzzz1544]

Dude you skate or something?

[@spicy110]

I assume you are referring the the axel sliders? They work as good as made for ones but cost 10%

[@shhmule]

This is a crap video, because it uses specialised tools which not everyone has. I wanted to learn how to shorten the chain without a chain splitter, and without an angle grinder, as I don't own those tools. I have tried cutting the link with a hacksaw, and it just scratches the good link.

[@jamesseibel416]

I keep going further and further back and im almost out of adjustment, what would cause that?

[@spicy110]

Worn out sprockets and chain? Or is this after fitting new chain and sockets?

[@jamesseibel416]

@@spicy110 Definitely worn out, have a new one on the way. But how does worn out sprockets cause this? Technically theres still a max length the chain can extend too right? Seems like it just keeps getting looser the more back I go.

[@spicy110]

Make sure the chain is over the front sprocket, then adjust it back, if you run out of adjustment and it's still lose then you need new chain and sprockets badly. The slack comes from the sprockets getting smaller and the chain wears on every single pin, giving it more slack.