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The drier gritter the conditions the way more better off running dry as sun bleached bone. I got desert storm like conditions and 3 bikes and didn't take long to find out I was shooting my self in the foot by creating grinding paste with any thing less than generous liberal copious constant excessive messy factory oiler. Which proves to me Norton historians knew Exactly what it take to lube a chain effectively not just decoratively. I get about 10K miles riding with purpose dry and maybe half that trying to keep up by attentive hand jobs. I don't know how far on X-ring sealed chain but had to trash an O-ring in a few 1000 miles as it got so stiff it would lay down in valleys well and got hot. I liked it golden color so did wd40 it a bit at first.
If you race you must expect to need tires more often than leisure rider, duh, if you ride in THE Grit then give up on much chain economy but save your self some grief and pollution running dry or go bonkers returning oil to its source or pulling off like real motorcyclers did to do it right. They generally kept at least two chains on hand one on bike the other in the grease pot, to swap out then process the used one to store till its turn.
My solution on special Peel is 530 X-ring because I now know O=Obsolete, and just brush and hose its dust layer off. I've done a C'do and SV650 520 conversion and is fine for racer that replace and replace, but I've sworn em off and not cost effective for the dang thin tooth wear and bend over so must replace sprockets every two chains or less. I've read enough success stories just putting on the wider 530 X chain and let it eat a clear path in primary or tranny as merely cosmetic if you stick a mirror in there to see its clear oil free slight scar.
If I forgot to mention it, only real way to know chain state is see where the links actually bear in use, lift em at back of sprocket then do the math, chain or drum sprocket, chain or drum sprocket or both... Go check right now and see.
If you race you must expect to need tires more often than leisure rider, duh, if you ride in THE Grit then give up on much chain economy but save your self some grief and pollution running dry or go bonkers returning oil to its source or pulling off like real motorcyclers did to do it right. They generally kept at least two chains on hand one on bike the other in the grease pot, to swap out then process the used one to store till its turn.
My solution on special Peel is 530 X-ring because I now know O=Obsolete, and just brush and hose its dust layer off. I've done a C'do and SV650 520 conversion and is fine for racer that replace and replace, but I've sworn em off and not cost effective for the dang thin tooth wear and bend over so must replace sprockets every two chains or less. I've read enough success stories just putting on the wider 530 X chain and let it eat a clear path in primary or tranny as merely cosmetic if you stick a mirror in there to see its clear oil free slight scar.
If I forgot to mention it, only real way to know chain state is see where the links actually bear in use, lift em at back of sprocket then do the math, chain or drum sprocket, chain or drum sprocket or both... Go check right now and see.