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XS400 Addict
So I had my bike on the center stand the other day and noticed that my chain rises significantly up at one point when I spun the wheel. This looked odd to me so I inspected more closely and noticed my rear sprocket was pretty tore up. The teeth were sharp visablly damaged. During my first newbie year of riding I was riding around with 1. chain way to lose and 2. my rear sprocket was loose.
I thought by replacing the rear sprocket which I just did would solve the problem but the chain still appears to rise and be tight in 1/2 of it and twice as loose in the other. The front sprocket looks perfect just like the rear now so I'm thinking it has to be the chain. Just want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious.
edit the chain looks fine I can't see anything visually wrong with it and I kept it lubed.
I thought by replacing the rear sprocket which I just did would solve the problem but the chain still appears to rise and be tight in 1/2 of it and twice as loose in the other. The front sprocket looks perfect just like the rear now so I'm thinking it has to be the chain. Just want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious.
edit the chain looks fine I can't see anything visually wrong with it and I kept it lubed.