Lets face it that Ninja 250 is the meanest, best handling bike on
the planet, way too tough for a Tsubaki omega spring clip connecting
link chain........
I hope you dont plan to enter it in 1000 cc mps-f class, because
my powder puff ninja 1000 doesnt come close to testing the much
weaker tsubaki and other brand chains with spring clips
Joe :)
ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:
>Hi Folks, wanted to report a cautionary note about Spring-Clip Links on
>bike chains. After returning home from my usual ride on the 250 Ninja,
>I happened to glance at the rear chain and lo-and-behold, the little
>spring clip on the Connecting Link was gone. This is a 520 Tsubaki
>Omega O-ring chain, which is the finest and longest wearing I've found.
>The Connecting Link was the one they send in the new chain package, the
>spring clip very carefully fitted and definitely correctly in place.
>The chain has 3700 miles on it and only been adjusted once. The
>sideplate of the Link, which is a light press fit in assembly, is firmly
>in place, so no harm was done. But in time, without the spring clip, it
>might have come off, which would be BAD.
>
>I KNOW, Kawasaki says to take the rear fork off and replace your chain
>with the endless OEM chain. Not likely, for me anyway.
>
>I KNOW, the Rivet Type Connecting Link is available, and offered by
>Tsubaki along with the chain, and in the past I have used this, but it
>is more trouble to assemble, so this time I figured, what the heck, this
>is just road use, I'm gonna use the spring clip Link.
>
>THE LESSON is, I guess I'll have to forget the Spring Clip Type
>Connecting Link, and just use the Rivet Type from now on.
>
>It's hard for us old greybeard bikers to accept the need for this, since
>back in the '50s and '60s we ran our 1000cc Vincents and everything else
>with Renold chains with OEM spring-clip connecting links, and never a
>problem. The Vincent factory shipped all their road bikes out that way,
>and nobody had a problem. Of course the chains wore out in maybe 5000
>miles. And it was the standard lore in those days that a serious racing
>bike needed a rivet-type connecting link.
>
>Ardun Bill
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