jelo
New Member
For those who might be interested - the dirty drive gear has just over 50,000 miles on it, next to a clean new replacement part. I'd had the dealer replace the chain when it needed to be as I just wanted to ride on - Until now - and they didn't replace any gears along the way. New chain (4th - mostly DID VX2s, but there was an early ~8K? warranty replacement - so realistically ~20K miles per decent quality taken care of chain) and both gears (factory OEM) now - and I learned a lot in doing it. The drive gears appear to be made of a different material that doesn't wear the same as the rear wheel gear. I was pretty good about lubing the chain every 500-1000miles - be aware that that waxy stuff builds up in the cavity around the drive gear and should probably be cleaned out periodically.
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