{"id":249,"date":"2011-04-09T17:10:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T00:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/wordpress\/?p=249"},"modified":"2019-05-28T09:07:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T17:07:41","slug":"motorcycle-chain-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/motorcycle-chain-alignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle chain alignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have a hard time with this, and I&#8217;m too cheap to buy this tool:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motionpro.com\/motorcycle\/partno\/08-0048\">http:\/\/www.motionpro.com\/motorcycle\/partno\/08-0048<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m also not entirely sure how effective it would be&#8230;I&#8217;ve heard mixed reviews).  Anyway&#8230;the best thing I&#8217;ve found so far is from this post by user Syscrush on SVRider:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.svrider.com\/showpost.php?p=1147779&#038;postcount=12\">http:\/\/forum.svrider.com\/showpost.php?p=1147779&#038;postcount=12<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I like to do is tighten the left adjuster first until the chain tension is right, then put a straightedge on the sprocket and tighten the right adjuster until the face of the straightedge that&#8217;s against the sprocket lines up with the inside edge of the inner sideplates on the chain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seemed to work well for me&#8230;.better than other methods I&#8217;ve tried, anyway.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have a hard time with this, and I&#8217;m too cheap to buy this tool: http:\/\/www.motionpro.com\/motorcycle\/partno\/08-0048 (I&#8217;m also not entirely sure how effective it would be&#8230;I&#8217;ve heard mixed reviews). Anyway&#8230;the best thing I&#8217;ve found so far is from this post by user Syscrush on SVRider: http:\/\/forum.svrider.com\/showpost.php?p=1147779&#038;postcount=12 What I like to do is tighten &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/motorcycle-chain-alignment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Motorcycle chain alignment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}