Those lines aren't always accurate.



And I dont worry about it at all. My axle is fixed in one location.

Truth. On both counts

They have the same chance of being inaccurate as your swingarm being permanently unaligned for your belt.

What I think I'm hearing from you is that those lines are all dead on on every single bike ever made.

You aren't hearing anything, you are reading it.

Apparently you are reading wrong too, because your bike has just as much chance at having an inaccuracy in the alignment as the mold for the other bikes. Except the other bikes can be adjusted to work within those inaccuracies, yours can't. Now back to your regularly scheduled thread about lining up chains.

I can't do anything about it if thats the case, you're right. But if my shit was adjustable I'd make damn sure it was in alignment, thats all I'm saying, don't trust the lines to be dead accurate. I'm not sure why you are debating that.

Because all what this is a bout is that is she likely to have a failure by using the lines? And the answer is a big fat no... Like Tigger said, he checked his lines to begin with on his sato chain adjusters and once he proved they were accurate, he just went by them. If there was a defect in his swingarm, he would of been subject to the same inaccuracy.... While there can be defects from bike to bike and cause inaccuracies, it's not common. You can check to make sure it's not once by using other methods and pretty much be set to go with using the lines. Most of the methods mentioned above can have pretty good chance at having minor defects and leading to inaccuracies as much or more in the adjustment as well.


Not part of the conversation above, but I really like the DRZs adjustment setup. It's not as flexible as a floating setup, but the step guide adjustments make for easy chain adjustments. That way I get the flexibility of different sprockets for different type riding and still have an easy chain alignment.

I didn't mention anything about a failure.

yes, but why other reason would you not want to go by the lines? If it makes it easier to do an adjustment, why not use them? I like the KISS method. Why make something needlessly more complicated when you got a tool already in place for this? It works for Sato, don't know why I shouldn't take advantage of it.

Maybe so, but they were good enough when I didn't move anything except removing the axle. Before though I had the ruler out.