Hi.
I want to share with you my little monster upgrade.
After many, many times of cleaning and then respraying sticky chain lube I decided to stop making this dirty and boring exercise. That was the easiest part of the job.
After a little research about what's the best way to keep your chain in good working condition I decided that the most common thing is to keep it clean and a little bit oiled, to decrease the friction between the chain rollers and the sprockets. Then the decision was to install chain oiler on my bike. I had a few ideas about fabricating my own oiler with a vacume or electric tap, but then I found this article:
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/Ride%20Magazine/Product%20test%20pdfs/Chain%20oiler%20test.pdfIt's a "Ride Magazine" chain oiler test and comparison. They tested few of this nice gadgets and compared them one to another. And then nominated a "best buy" product. Wich for me means just best "money for effectivness" comparison. I know that the expensive systems work very well, without taking the rider's attention, but I'm trying to keep the bike as simple as possible.
One month ago I purchased the TUTORO chain oiler, and after instaling and tuning it I was realy amazed of that little chain lubrication divice. It works really good. The chain is well loobed outside and inside, clean from dirt and rust, and with no extra oil on the rear part of the bike. It needs to determine the amount of oil drops per minute first, wich is a little time taking procedure.
It has to be done on every bike, depending on the choosen position of the reservoir,the lenght of the hose, the viscosity of the oil (I used 10W50 full synthetic engine oil, becouse it was what I had in the garage) and of course of the local air temperature.
The only thing that you have to remember is to close the tap after ride.
For the instalation I used the plastic pipe, the ties and the rubber pads in the kit, and piece of copper pipe ( from car brake system) for better and stable position of the twin-feed nozzile toward the rear sprocket (somewhere between 7 to 8 o'clock).
I like it because it's simple, afficient, not so hard to tune and the most common reason it is really cheap.
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