I believe WenMark meant a center stand, witch IMO is well worth it. I payed close to $150 for my SW-Motech center stand but I believe it's money well spent considering it does maintenance and storage easy.Man, I feel a little OCD with my chain maintenance now listening to you guys!!! I clean and lube it once a week (if I ride it every week). I've only had to tighten mine once and it didn't really need it. The less you lube, the more your having to tighten, stretching your chain and grinding your sprockets down. It's cheap insurance to lube it regularly... at least IMO. Also, WenMark, you can get a stand from Harbor Freight for $39.99. I have it and it works perfectly fine.
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I like that! Simple.Anyone seen this? PackJack - Home
Better yet, anyone have one? I have a stand, but since I live in an apartment complex, it's hard to use it. My parking stall is slanted so I have to wait for an open spot that's even.
You're actually supposed to clean and re lube the chain every time you ride in the rain. I know if you commute every day in the rain that's not really possible, but I would definitely do it more often than 700 miles if you're riding in the rain. I don't ride in the wet at all and I probably clean mine every 300 miles or so. I wash my bike often and I do it every time the bike gets wet.Thanks for the posts everyone.
I just finished lubing my chain for the first time at 1400+ miles (had the dealership do the first one at 680). It takes a little more time than my bicycle, but it was really easy.
I got the Harbor Freight swingarm stand and used Bel-Ray Super Clean chain lube (dealer recommendation). That stuff works great. The chain still had a decent coat and a miniscule amount of grit despite the fact that I've been riding in the rain.
I'll go another 700 miles and see how it looks. If anything changes, I'll post again.
I had the same problem. Spent a day trying to find it. Grabbed the last can from Lowes.The only place I could find that had it was Lowe's. I went to HD and 3 different auto parts stores with no luck.
I know what ya mean. While I was figuring out my issue, I broke out the tape measure and it was smack in the middle of spec. I put over 5k miles on each of my last two bikes with never having to adjust the slack... traded one in and the other is being stored at the moment. So it probably has more to do with how hard you ride than it does how many miles you rack up.all this talk about chain maintenance, what about adjusting the chain?
i seen the post on How-to but who has done it? at what miles did you do it at. mine seems to still be in spec, just wondering when everyone (those that have many more miles than me) first had to do an adjustment.