Harsh Cer Forks.

What did piss me off other than no bike again for the weekend is its a horribly dirty job I was expecting to do once and clean up, now to do it all again 4 days later.
 
Blimey. You'd think 530 o-ring chains would be available at any half-decent bike shop. I'm sure I could pick one up here in Hobart without much trouble.  I guess you have to expect problems when you live in a back-water hic town like Sydney  ;)
 
Why don't you just use the rivet connector ???
Sounds like you're going to get a free one to have as a spare anyway................
(surely there's heaps of bike shops in Sydney that have chains :o :o)
 
I was heading in the general direction of Tsubaki Chains Australia head office and I have bought from them with zero issues before, I didn't even ring to see if they had stock as its a huge warehouse. I am a creature of habit so that's what I did. I could probably rivot the chain but I haven't done it before, and having the ability to easily remove the chain seems like a good idea. No rides this weekend so not a big issue. At least I finally could move the bike so the mower could come out of the tiny shed. The grass was waist high and now a bit shorter.
 
Tsubaki would be TK chain? Wonder where they are in Melbourne?

I'm thinking of going the riveting machine option when I fit my project bikes with chains. But I do like being able to break them to make removing my non-Laverda wheels easier.
 
Manufacturers going away from joining clips nowa days as to many knob heads place the clip the wrong way rnd  ::)

Riveting and breaking a riveted chain is a piece a piss..... with the right tool (who wooda thought)  and just as easy to install new joining link with said tool  ;)

Get with it you blokes and tool up  8)
 
My chain breaker wouldn't touch this chain, I had to grind the rivet heads off to get it to length. The pinheads were peaned over one hell of a lot, the breaker pushed them out fine after the grinder did its thing. This was there lower strength 530 O ring, or was supposed to be as they sent there X ring. I have there top of the range chromed 530 O ring on my 3C. The Pantah one takes 120hp so its fine, the top rated one will take Bussa power so its fine on the 3C.
 
hooksey said:
Get with it you blokes and tool up  8)
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I've only ever used a hammer and punch against a heavy dolly on those rivet type chains. Also use an angle grinder on the pins to break them as Vince described.

I thought my methods were a bit rough until I was at the Stafford Bike show some years ago and bought a primary chain from Andy the chain man.  He cut the number of links I needed off his length of stock with a grinder, put in a connecting link and peened it over with a hammer and punch!
 
Wheres a Blacksmith when you need one, my welder will love this. After the Lawton Bushman sidestand was so great on my 3C I decided the Pantah needed one as I was sick of the ballet dance getting off had become. According to common knowledge, a Cagiva Alazzurra being all but a Pantah would fit easily, not on mine. After 2 nightmare days it finally was on but took plenty of bending to work. But its far from easy, the toe lever sits behind the centrestand lever and they both get in the way of each other. So the sidestand toe lever got cut off today and I need to make a new one 8mm solid and curved around the muffler. Clearance for the curved bit is 80mm diameter. I expect if the solid bar gets welded to an 80mm steel pipe one end and heated to cherry red it will bend around to the curve I want.
Nowhere near as easy at the Laverda one as I said.
 
I put a Kawasaki side stand on my MHR Ducati. I made up a little plate for the stand to bolt onto. It fixes to the frame plate that holds the centre stand pivot and is held in place by the centre stand bolt and another bolt through a hole drilled in the frame plate. Works perfectly and tucks away neatly when folded.

I could have made the mounting plate bigger so it picks up the lower rear engine mount bolt (rather than drill a hole in the frame plate) but the rusty old piece of 8mm scrap steel plate I had lying around wasn't big enough. I'm not such a stickler for originality that drilling a hole in my bike bothered me anyway. If it bothers the next owner, he can weld the hole up again.
 

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Mine was supposed to bolt straight on, nobody said the whole exhaust, centre stand and bottom engine mount bolt needed to come off before it would fit. It was a big job.
 
Replacement chain arrived today from Perth, a week for the fork springs to come 50ks. One day for 4000ks from Perth for the chain
 
They sent me, wait for it EXACTLY THE SAME CHAIN.So I now have just riveted my first X ring chain. The only hard bit was I didnt have a small enough G cramp to press the plate on the pins. All done now, hope I have peened it enough.
 
Ffs Vince go down ya local bike shop and lash out on the right tool ! Breaker and re peener.  No clamps needed and no need to get out the hammer n punch that you retired years ago  ;)
 
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