Total Engine Rebuild 1971 Triumph Daytona

[slip101]

How important are the chain guard and gaiters? I ordered new gaiters but a new chain guard is 80 dollars.

[Searchguru]

In the UK you might get pulled over by an overzealous cop for not having a chain guard but I don't know what the score is in the US. Failing to have one may cause old ladies and children to be dragged into your rear sprocket so be careful.

[twolitre]

I would have thought the chain guard was a good idea to prevent the chain taking your leg off if it snapped!
Tom Parry perhaps should have had one (or was it two?).

[Searchguru]

Twolitre,
I assume your reference is to Mr John Godfrey Parry-Thomas who was as good as decapitated in a land speed attempt on Pendine Sands. Fatal injury caused by one of the two drive chains of his car.

[twolitre]

Sorry - age creeping in and a faulty recall. I did indeed mean Parry-Thomas with Babs.

Jim (already used up my three score years and ten!)

[Rex]

That car's been rebuilt now after decades buried under sand...

I like chainguards; keep the flying crap off your legs, and if you see the after effects of a  chain break, you see the point.

Plus bikes look too "shite unfinished red-necks charp" without 'em...

[Searchguru]

I don't doubt a chainguard's usefulness and requirement for originality but I have never heard of or seen an injury caused by a chain snapping on an unguarded bike. You don't tend to see Motogp or motorcross bikes with them. If it was a safety issue you would think that scrutineers would have something to say about them. There seems to be plenty of chain breakages during the TT over the years but no chainguards on many bikes, none on a Manx Norton. Just an observation.

[Rex]

I suppose that's true, although competition bikes would have chains checked far more regularly that some daily clunker.

I've had a nearly new Izumi chain snap on a 200cc Honda but that just unrolled onto the road, luckily. Then again, I've seen a few rewelded C range Triumphs where the chain has bunched around the gearbox sprocket and damaged everything in the area...
 (the later ones even had a little chain guide fitted in this area to allow the chain to roll off)...to it certainly has/does happen.

[slip101]

I am having a problem with the bike slipping out of first when starting out. Any ideas as to why?

[Rex]

As a first guess, check the layshaft endfloat. Too much, and the gears don't positively engage.

[bikerisme]

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