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Is chain wear worse on an enduro/dirt bike than on an adventure bike?
The new chain and sprockets on my Honda CRF230F shows signs of wear (chain can be pulled away from the rear sprocket) after 8 days/25 hours worth of Transkei technical riding up steep inclines and through rivers - wear similar to 15 000km on an F800GS normal usage.
On a KTM 300 XC W the chain is gone after 120 hours and 1500 km (pulls away from the sprocket so you can see through) - it has done lots of technical rock hopping.
As most wear happens internally between pins and rollers an O-ring chain is a must to reduce wear.
The question I guess is whether one should spend R500 on an EK O-ring, or R1300 on a DID X-ring and hope that it will make the sprockets last a bit longer (sprockets have to be replaced every time)?
The new chain and sprockets on my Honda CRF230F shows signs of wear (chain can be pulled away from the rear sprocket) after 8 days/25 hours worth of Transkei technical riding up steep inclines and through rivers - wear similar to 15 000km on an F800GS normal usage.
On a KTM 300 XC W the chain is gone after 120 hours and 1500 km (pulls away from the sprocket so you can see through) - it has done lots of technical rock hopping.
As most wear happens internally between pins and rollers an O-ring chain is a must to reduce wear.
The question I guess is whether one should spend R500 on an EK O-ring, or R1300 on a DID X-ring and hope that it will make the sprockets last a bit longer (sprockets have to be replaced every time)?
