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T.M. Design works chain guide?

Posted: 03:31 pm Sep 11 2006
by kdennan
I emailed them and they said that they don't make a guide for the 220.
Does anyone have one that they know to be retro-fitable?
Like one for a KX? My chain is getting worn from the Fredette guide. It is aligned properly but just the side-to-side movement of the chain alone is causing it to rub against the outer plate. The part that makes me most nervous is that the master link is getting worn. I have a spare as I should but I don't like the thought of throwing the chain, period.
Thanks

Posted: 08:40 am Sep 13 2006
by kdennan
Seems like a great chain guide. Most guys back east are running them in the rocky gnar.
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Posted: 09:23 am Sep 13 2006
by Green Hornet
Have you changed the Chain Rider on the Swing Arm???
I have over 1000miles on the FRP & have not noticed wear like you have

Posted: 07:37 pm Sep 13 2006
by kdennan
No. The slider is still stock. Not worn much at all.
It isn't noisy at all or I would definitely say that something is wrong.
I wonder how the stock guide works. It is one of those things that I have always replace with an FRP guide. They always worked great on my XR's. To me it's like having a good shark fin or radiator guards....... Just gotta have 'em. I am mostly interested in the plastic like TM because if it is the right kind it can take some serious abuse and yet have give to it that the aluminum kits don't.
I need to take a measurement of the guide on a KX, I guess. :blink:

Posted: 10:50 am Sep 15 2006
by mattR
Last year when I bought a TMD they told me it was left over stock and they weren't making them anymore for the KDX. Works great, hope it lasts.

Posted: 10:53 am Sep 15 2006
by mattR
OT: Just noticed you hail from Jamaica VT. I haven't been up that way since the Red Fox disaster of 2004. Hope I get to ride up there again some day.

Posted: 06:40 pm Sep 15 2006
by kdennan
I live close to the loop and hit many sections of on a weekly basis.
If you ever want to take a trip up here I would not dissapoint. My brother-in-law and I have been checking out the NETRA route sheets for the Reading loop and the Springfield loop which ties into the Red Fox. The Springfield loop is good. The Reading loop needs revision.
Anyway. I leave right from my house and hit the Red Fox stuff plus the surrounding trails and find that 40 to 50 miles is a real smiler :lol:

Posted: 06:37 pm Sep 16 2006
by mattR
Good to know somebody is enjoying those trails. Thanks for the offer. My riding mileage has been way down this year (work), but I'll keep it in mind.

Posted: 06:39 pm Sep 16 2006
by Indawoods
File the sides down. Anything hard that rubs your chain is going to wear it.