Thursday, March 01, 2007

More Sprockets

My 50 tooth sprocket has finally arrived from M&P and has now been fitted.

It was a bit of a bugger to do as the rear wheel of the Hongdou is a really snug fit in the swingarm and thus a real bastard to re fit on your own. You have to hold the left hand spacer in place and push the spindle in with your left hand whilst holding the brake caliper bracket in place with your right, supporting the wheel on your foot and positioning it so the holes line up with your face.

Next time I'm just going to lay the thing over on its side.

Haven't had chance to have a proper test ride yet (f$%^king work) but an initial blast up the loop road shown the speedo needle reaching the dizzy heights of 70 mph !!