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Good idea, as long as it only costs pence. If it is £4.99 or similar I won't be buying it.

It's rare to get not enough clearance between chain and swingarm for you to angle the straw almost straight down anyway surely?

Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Sep 02, 2025 12:25 pm Good idea, as long as it only costs pence. If it is £4.99 or similar I won't be buying it.

£2.93
https://darpansarvanstore.com/product/c ... zzle-tool/

ISTR that people are explicitly advised NOT to lube chains with the bike running on a stand, gear engaged and rear wheel turning. That advice would still apply using this gizmo.

Doubly so if you're wearing a tie.

Unless it's the safety tie of course!

Safety or not, I don't want to spoil a perfectly good tie.

Looks like it's blowing all over the rear tyre.

It's been a long time since I lubed a chain. I used to bend the tube near the far end by about 15 degrees, then fire lube onto the chain in parallel with it, towards the front sprocket and thus away from the rear tyre.

I've always managed to do that with standard can ??

To be fair I do know someone who trapped his fingers maybe if he had one of those
...or if he wasn't a prat

Looks like a load of shit to me.

Is that outside the binary of choice offered in the thread title?

JackyJoll wrote: Tue Sep 02, 2025 5:41 pm Looks like a load of shit to me.

Is that outside the binary of choice offered in the thread title?

It's strictly a binary choice. FFS, the last thing we need is reasoned arguments and opinions!

I'll waste my pennys on something else thank you.

I don’t lube chains I just buy new ones.

Problem solved.

Or, I put it on a stand and let the rear run with the engine on about 5k, and smear grease on using my fingers.

Easy.

fingerpuk wrote: Tue Sep 02, 2025 7:19 pm I don’t lube chains I just buy new ones.

Problem solved.

Or, I put it on a stand and let the rear run with the engine on about 5k, and smear grease on using my fingers.

Easy.

Safety tip- use someone else’s fingers.

Modern yams throw a code/eml if the rear wheel is turning whilst the front is stationary.
Perhaps they designed it that way to encourage best practice whilst lubing a chain.
Also throws a code on the brake roller at test time if the ignition is on!

..... wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 8:16 am Modern yams throw a code/eml if the rear wheel is turning whilst the front is stationary.
Perhaps they designed it that way to encourage best practice whilst lubing a chain.
Also throws a code on the brake roller at test time if the ignition is on!

I think my AT does that. You have to turn the ABS off but I think it resets itself after a certain distance or suchlike?

ABS uses the relative speed of the two wheels as a big part of working out if the brakes are locked of course. It also does loads of error checking to make sure the sensors are working. If it sees a very large difference in wheel speed it will probably say "nah that can't be right" and turn itself off/down.

Hence the warning light.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 10:45 pm If it sees a very large difference in wheel speed it will probably say "nah that can't be right" and turn itself off/down.

Hence the warning light.

I was under the impression that below x mph (6 iirc) abs is inactive. My abs light doesn't extinguish until 10mph is reached
However I have no idea what speed the rollers of an MOT station travel, or indeed what the speed is at tickover in 1st on the paddock stand!