Lubricating a motorcycle chain

Is there a way to lubricate your chain under the following conditions:

1. only yourself available for the task
2. hard standing
3. no centre stand but functional side stand
4. commercial can of chain lube
5. you are about 6ft tall, 79kg
6. limited space so you cant roll it forwards and backwards
7. no money to purchase fangdangled jibbers to do it for you
8. you are a scott oiler hater
9. you dont want to get your leg rooter dirty

any suggestions?

 

nothing unusual there

dont drink so much

good bike wont fall over

as opposed to non commercial chain lube?

eat more you skinny bastard

take bike onto road

refer to 2 or sell more leathers and buy 1 they last forever

whats wrong with you?

 

Couldn't have said it any better...
I have a ScottOiler on my 2002 R1 and its great. Whats there to hate about
it? You didn't think of it?

 

sit on the bike, do a burnout. While using the throttle and brake with your
right hand apply oil to the moving chain with your left hand.

HTH

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

Spray heaps of oil all over the rear sprocket then go for a ride around the
block.
Check chain, repeat as necessary.

 

Make up a small set of rollers to put your back wheel on.

Rockit

 

This one works a treat BVR.

Tie up the front brake and/or have the front tyre against a wall. Get a
breaker bar or similar bar and lift the bike up via the right rear side of
the bike. Prop it up. You'll only need the wheel 2 cm off the ground at
most then rotate the wheel by hand whilst applying the chain lube.

One of these gadgets helps you clean the chain as well as apply the lube.
http://www.kettenmax.com

For the love of god, don't use your engine to rotate the wheel!

justAL

 

Oh, and most importantly....SIDE STAND DOWN, for all of this.

justAL

 

Grab that handy scissor jack you've got lying around in the missis 1985
corolla, grab some wood, wack it under the suspension linkage point, jack it
up a bit. Go around to chain, oil the inside run of the chain and you're
done.

Cam

 

1. Leave bike on sidestand

2. Front brake on and handlebars turned to left (tape front brake lever or
old sock wrap it)

3. get a car scissor jack under the rear suspension linkage and raise rear
wheel.

 

One day Baron Von Rotter got dressed and committed to text

NO, you should take it back to the store. You are not the sort of person
that that can have a motorcycle.

 

www.rollastand.com.au


Victorian company, owned by Mudd who's VTR is in the pictures.

 

Unless you have a modern faired sportsbike which has undertray going all the
way back to the rear wheel and you don't feel like spending 15 mins removing
fairing every time you need to lube the chain.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

chgurp? cgkjs? chdft?

OH! a rivetted metal link drive thing

best suited to industrial machinery

take it back and get another one

otherwise;

squat on left side of bike {parked, stand down}
pull it over - via handlebars - so it balances on sidestand with left hand
engage lube can in correct orientation with right hand
spray bottom run of...drive thing
put can down
rotate wheel till unsprayed length appears on bottom run using right hand
re-engage can
spray
repeat until entire length of drive is coated with chosen lubricant
return bike to operational attitide WRT hard stand

operational note;

don't spray too much lubricant on; with O-ring chains you are only
lubricating the sprocket/chain interface - important but not critical

if one of them drives is used in an industrial environment contaminated
with fibreglass dust, it is better to run it dry to prevent premature
wear caused by dust build up on lubricant

 

NO, you should take it back to the store. You are not the sort of person

You get a standing ovation for this one.

Hey BVR I'll give you treefiddyandakickindanuts for it.

Scum

 

There's a way around this too. On the scissor jacks you can just grap the
rear bobbin area on the right hand side of the swingarm. If you use the jack
on the bobbin pick up lug you're ok. There's a touch of movement as it goes
up, and I had to wiggle the jack about slightly so it wouldn't rub against
the tyre, but it worked a charm anyway. If you've got a bolt or something
lying around that fits the bobbin, put that in and you'll be sorted.

Cam

 

Or just get one really wet spot.

 

Why dont you buy a bike with a centre stand, better still, with a shaft
drive or fully enclosed chain. Back in my day............(mutter grumble,
don't make 'em like they used to witter, moan, whinge)

 

Can I watch ??

 

buy a can of chainsaw oil and a paintbrush...