Chain tool to avoid

[earlfor]

I do that if it's a bike that's easy to get the chain over the front sprocket. Some sport bikes you have to remove some of the side fairing, the shift rod and engine cover to get to the front sprocket, but when all you need to do is replace the chain, it make it easier if you can attach the new chain to the old one with the master link and pull it through.

Instead of a master link so you can pull a new chain through using a piece of string or a small wire tie leaving a one tooth gap between the two ends. The new chain will pull through perfectly while skipping a tooth and the string pulling the other half of the chain.

[gsrick]

Instead of a master link so you can pull a new chain through using a piece of string or a small wire tie leaving a one tooth gap between the two ends. The new chain will pull through perfectly while skipping a tooth and the string pulling the other half of the chain.

I have done that with a small zip tie, but since I need to use the tool to press the rivet anyway, I just use the die grinder to take off the head and press the pins out. The only time I cut the chains now is when we get a bike that the chain is stiff from rust or if I have to also do the sprockets. It's all good, whatever works the best for the individual circumstance.

[derwood]

cut the old chain off with a zip wheel

[bobgroger]

I do that if it's a bike that's easy to get the chain over the front sprocket. Some sport bikes you have to remove some of the side fairing, the shift rod and engine cover to get to the front sprocket, but when all you need to do is replace the chain, it make it easier if you can attach the new chain to the old one with the master link and pull it through.

You do it for a living so you need to be efficient. I think of chain and sprockets as a set and replace it all...

[earlfor]

You do it for a living so you need to be efficient. I think of chain and sprockets as a set and replace it all...

+1 on that. I never put a new chain on old sprockets.

[limeex2]

I do that if it's a bike that's easy to get the chain over the front sprocket. Some sport bikes you have to remove some of the side fairing, the shift rod and engine cover to get to the front sprocket, but when all you need to do is replace the chain, it make it easier if you can attach the new chain to the old one with the master link and pull it through.

Grind it off at the rear sprocket while in gear. Hook up the new chain, put in neatral and pull it through as explained in this post. When its in gear it wont spin and lose the chain. Nice to know about the one turn method when using the flairing tool. I wondered about that myself. Before I bought the tool, I used a center punch to flair the rivet, but often wondered if I was doing it properly.