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My C&S arrived on Friday but I had a new fibreglass roof installed on my extension on Thursday so me and my son had a load of old felt, clippings and moss to take to the tip yesterday, along with some pond and general garden maintenance, followed by a few relaxing cold ones in the garden, so that was Saturday over. Anyway, the new C&S is going on today. Black and gold DID VX2 chain and ZBK sprockets, the rear one being in black.

I've been a brake test and systems engineer for 25 years. Silicone fluid in systems designed for non-silicone is pot luck. If they used compatible seals it'll be fine, if not it won't. We don't know. The fresh container advice is also about dust, they build ABS modulators in clean room conditions as some of the passages are very small. Its as big a black hole as any oil debate. The safe answer is to do what the manual says. Andy

All done. . The only bit of grief was getting the spring link to go on and all the way home, apart from that it was a breeze. All test ridden and given the Mikdent seal of approval. The last time I did a C&S change was on my Varadero that had been down the west coast of Africa, it took us four days to get the front sprocket off as it was caked in sand,crud and oil, in the end it took 4 feet of leverage via a scaffold tube. The experience was a much pleasenter one on a 'new' bike with only 9000 (mostly dry) miles as opposed to an old

PDOiler is my choice.

Enjoy your farkling, pics please. Bike needs a good wash, so there will be both of us scrubbing her down today, then the boot and fork protectors will be going on 😀

I'm only guessing here but how about loosening it off first, before taking the rear wheel out, and put the handbrake on?

I went on the advice of my good mate who knows far more than me about bikes, he's of the opinion that they are making a 'comeback' due to modern technology, machining, materials etc.