Went riding with Mase yesterday (I blame him). He pops a couple wheelies... I go to pop it up in second and start to hear some wierd stuff. I quit doin it since I know my chain isn't in the best of shape. Get a little further and pull over to look at it. Notice that some of the teeth are gone. Limp home, pull the sprocket to find:

Count em, there's 3.75 teeth left


Anyone else ever shredded a sprocket?

 

mis-aligned wheel or loose/tight chain?

 

the latter... (loose)

 

Don't tell me thats steel

 

Unless you buy a huge sprocket, expect to keep buying them and/or new clutches if you keep on wheel'n around.

 

nah, sprocket specialists aluminum. got the steelie back on though.

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Nah, I never wheelie. No doubt, I'm to blame though, I put off getting a new chain too long. That sprocket is only 2 teeth up from stock though, 41 vs 39 (TL1000R). Just going to stick with stock size as the thing has no problem coming off the ground.

 

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ah, the good 'ol days of 10 up and 2 down.

 

TL1000R is a nice bike to wheelie! Just give it a quick dose of throttle and you can keep it in the air for quite a while!

 

hahahahaha, i rode w/ him the other day poping those lil 2nd gear wheelies ... i almost hit a curb next to a hill the other day doing a 1st gear wheelie in the aero parking lot....

 

Sprockets don't go bad in a day unless you are ridin pretty hard! Anyways, a loose chain will definitely kill the sprocket!