Hi Folks.
The last couple of trail rides I have taken out have been attended by a couple of XC650.
One had a slightly lowered final drive ratio, one tooth smaller front sprocket, the other had standard ratios.
If you are planning to use your machines for trail riding, I would recommend that you lower the gearing, as this will reduce the want of the bike to spin the back wheel in first gear when on tricky sections of mud or rock.
You need to be aiming at a slow walking pace and have first gear as a crawler gear.
Looking on the JT Sprocket website has given this result. It is showing a standard front sprocket of 16 teeth, I'd say try 14 teeth for a start.
http://www.jtsprockets.com/52.0.html?&L=0&sel_uid=2761&p=
As I said, one of the riders recently has lowered the front sprocket by one tooth, but this still wasn't enough in my eyes, for the knarly sections of trail.
What do you think?
Timpo.
The last couple of trail rides I have taken out have been attended by a couple of XC650.
One had a slightly lowered final drive ratio, one tooth smaller front sprocket, the other had standard ratios.
If you are planning to use your machines for trail riding, I would recommend that you lower the gearing, as this will reduce the want of the bike to spin the back wheel in first gear when on tricky sections of mud or rock.
You need to be aiming at a slow walking pace and have first gear as a crawler gear.
Looking on the JT Sprocket website has given this result. It is showing a standard front sprocket of 16 teeth, I'd say try 14 teeth for a start.
http://www.jtsprockets.com/52.0.html?&L=0&sel_uid=2761&p=
As I said, one of the riders recently has lowered the front sprocket by one tooth, but this still wasn't enough in my eyes, for the knarly sections of trail.
What do you think?
Timpo.
