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Found my side stand gets a fair amount of chain lubes deposited into it which slows down its operation. A good squirt of wd40 around the mounting bolt does the trick. Do the same for the center stand. For years I've gone two chains to a set of sprockets. Provided you have been diligent in checking and maintaining proper tension and lubricating your chain the sprockets should be fine. My current original sprockets are on the second chain, and after 68,000k's an inspection the other month of the front sprocket looked perfect! I am truly a non believer of the "sprockets must be replaced with every chain" mentality. YMMV.

Hi everyone, I just made my reservations this past Friday. Hope to see some old friends and make new ones. I will be coming in on Thursday late afternoon. See you, Bill Mersch, aka MisterBill 859-466-2174

They did! 😎

I'll add a funny storey about chain lube. A few years ago on one of our runs to Phillip Island for WSBK with the boys, my mate forgot chain lube. I offered him mine but I only take a tiny can of Maxima that gives you four lubes which is good enough for a 2000km trip, he wouldn't accept it as he didn't want to use it all up. At a servo that we stopped at I noticed a can of Castrol antifling chain oil. He asked me about it and I told him I used to use it back in the 80's and it was good stuff, so he bought it. We had just covered 65km of dirt road so he gave his chain a liberal dose, and decided to be a nice bloke and did all our bikes. Faaark, the crap went everywhere, I've never seen chain lube spread so far and wide. Seriously, we were cleaning it out of every possible surface for weeks after we got back including leathers and luggage. Even the bloke on the R1200R with no chain had it all over him. Antifling my arse. The can has now been glued to a piece of timber and has a bronze plaque on it, it has become our "best passing maneuver on the Bonang" trophy which is handed out every year after our Phillip Island trip.