What about gear changes or abrupt throttle changes? In that instance, the speed of the driving gear changes, the driven gear reacts, the chain wraps more fully around the rear sprocket and runs hard on the upper chain slider shoe... does the chain also want to shift laterally at that moment?. If...
The swingarm is attached to the frame at two points with pins, spacers, bearings and seals. I can see that varying road conditions, high speed cornering, etc. may induce swingarm movement and alignment issues, but there just seems to be something more to it. My mind keeps coming back to the...
The internet is full of information pertaining to chain and sprocket design, but there's one question that I've never found the answer to. Hopefully, a member here will be able to provide that answer. In this case, the question pertains to the chain drive on a motorcycle, specifically the Ducati...
