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Hi guys. I recently had a little accident with my bike when I improperly mounted something to the rear rack I installed which caused a lovely broken spoke on my rear wheel. After realizing that the couple places I tried to take my wheel to in order to have the spoke replaced refused to service motorized bikes I hunkered down, bought a bunch of necessary tools, and did the job myself. All of this took a little over a week, due to work, lack of proper tools and other things, with me just finishing up a couple hours ago.
Now the first question I have, and it may sound a bit odd: Can fuel evaporate from inside the tank? I recall having around 1/4 or 1/5 of my fuel tank full after I broke the spoke, when I went to ride it after fixing the problem I noticed that my fuel tank was empty! It either evaporated, or the one other person in my apartment complex with a bike (full sized dirt-bike, which I'm guessing takes two-stroke?) syphoned the remaining fuel out of my tank sometime during the week.
Second question: I had just a 1/4 or 1/5 tank left of fuel before I was done with my break-in period on my bike, so while mixing up the next batch of fuel I decided to go ahead and run 32:1 as I've seen noted by various people around here on the forum. It may well be the fact that I haven't rode my bike around in a week but I noticed that riding the bike isn't as smooth as I remember it being, could this be because of the lower fuel mixture?
Third question: While putting the chain tensioner back on I noticed an awful lot of slack at the lowest position of the wheel so I raised it up to the point where there is only around 1 to 1-1/3 inches of slack in the chain. Even still, the chain when in motion seems to have barely a few millimeters of clearance between the top and bottom portions. Should I drop the tensioner lower? Highten it? Could this be why the ride wasn't quite as smooth as I remember it?
Last question: How much side to side movement should the tensioner wheel have? I noticed when I put it back on that there was maybe 1/3" of side to side movement in the wheel. Should it have this side to side slack? Could I have forgotten a bit when replacing the tensioner?
Thanks for your help guys!
Now the first question I have, and it may sound a bit odd: Can fuel evaporate from inside the tank? I recall having around 1/4 or 1/5 of my fuel tank full after I broke the spoke, when I went to ride it after fixing the problem I noticed that my fuel tank was empty! It either evaporated, or the one other person in my apartment complex with a bike (full sized dirt-bike, which I'm guessing takes two-stroke?) syphoned the remaining fuel out of my tank sometime during the week.
Second question: I had just a 1/4 or 1/5 tank left of fuel before I was done with my break-in period on my bike, so while mixing up the next batch of fuel I decided to go ahead and run 32:1 as I've seen noted by various people around here on the forum. It may well be the fact that I haven't rode my bike around in a week but I noticed that riding the bike isn't as smooth as I remember it being, could this be because of the lower fuel mixture?
Third question: While putting the chain tensioner back on I noticed an awful lot of slack at the lowest position of the wheel so I raised it up to the point where there is only around 1 to 1-1/3 inches of slack in the chain. Even still, the chain when in motion seems to have barely a few millimeters of clearance between the top and bottom portions. Should I drop the tensioner lower? Highten it? Could this be why the ride wasn't quite as smooth as I remember it?
Last question: How much side to side movement should the tensioner wheel have? I noticed when I put it back on that there was maybe 1/3" of side to side movement in the wheel. Should it have this side to side slack? Could I have forgotten a bit when replacing the tensioner?
Thanks for your help guys!