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Originally Posted by webmaster
Les isn't making them any longer - but it would be a good design for GasGas to emulate. The honda XR chain guide, in my opinion, is the best design ever made...
jeff
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I made one myself from 2 bits of 6mm equal angle ali extrusion, back to back. Those of us old enough to have ridden during the seventies and eighties will well remember the agony of bouncing up rutted rocky tracks on a Yammy DT360 (or such like) only to have the chain come off the rear sprocket and jam itself around the countershaft. It wasn't unknown for engine cases to be smashed in this way. It was a godsend when bikes started coming out with these moulded plastic chain guides ( that and getting the countershaft nearer to the swingarm pivot!). I took the stock dangly guide off my gasser before I even rode it, and replaced it with an XR guide.
I often wonder why lessons learnt in the past seem to get forgotten - applies to life in general, not just bikes!