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[Devon Jarvis]

Dave Morrow wrote:

> > > > > You want to see a backfire? > > http://poetry.rotten.com/weightlifter/ > > I'm not even going to bother to look at this. Rotten.com is about as > sick as it gets. I can only imagine what this link points to. > > I tried to inject a little humor with the first backfire post. I > guess it's out of place here, my apologies. > > -- > Dave Morrow > Vermilion, Ohio >

Your instincts are correct. But who's to say when the joke's gone too far? Devon A15 -- "It's a troublesome world, all the people who are in it, are troubled with troubles almost every minute" Dr. Seuss

[wombatz_2000]

We lowered my wife's bike the full 3 inches allowed by the scootworks links. We lowered mine just 1 inch. Silly me forgot to check the chain tension before installing the links; just did not even think of it since the bikes were new. After lowering I noticed that her chain was too tight; I adjusted it. Mine was on the tight side of allowable. So, I am thinking that since the chain tension is checked with the bike "topped out" then maybe the lowering itself draws it tighter. But then this begs the question of whether I should use the same tension mesurement with this 3 inch lowered bike. Or should it be a little tighter since it has less overall traval now? --Doug