Western Power Sports 525HSO chain

Dustin

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I just wanted to share the results of a recent experiment.

About 6000 miles ago, I bought a new chain and sprockets for my SV. I was sort of up in the air as to what chain to get and decided to take a chance with a chain from Western Power Sports (WPS) that was a bit lower on the price scale than the quality brands like DID or RK. I compared tensile strengths and read their marketing and decided to see just good or bad a cheap brand would be.

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The results were not good. I would constantly have to adjust it basically out of the box and as a result, I ordered a DID 525VX (the replacement for the VM) as I knew it would be in the trash soon enough. I managed 6000 miles out of the chain before it stretched itself beyond my adjustment range. A terrible result.

I know that I did it for an experiment and was kind of expecting this result but I'm still a bit let down. What a piece of shit. It was $75 when I ordered it and the DID I picked up from Riders Discount was only $95 on special!

Sure, it was a waste of money but at least I got to see for myself the difference between a quality chain and everything else. An expensive lesson ;)
 
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Well good thing it wasn't a very expensive experiment. Unfortunately with those things it's hard to tell what you'll get in the end. I hope you were able to replace it yourself and not have to pay labor on top of it...
 
CorrectionsK9 said:
cheap+ dangerous= lifelessness
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I'm still not convinced of that. I think had I been your average weekend warrior--riding 4000km a year on sunny days or something, it would have been just fine for that application.

I don't think it was so crappy that it was dangerous like the one stretched06 posted

loosenut said:
The sad thing is that your new sprockets are already worn to the crappy chain.
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This is true. Thankfully, good steel sprockets are very inexpensive for this bike.

stretched06 said:
I cant remember what it was . I got it from some shop off ebay for around $90. It caused 2500 dollars damage when it broke. if my wife would have been with me it would have hit her.
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$90? Now that's interesting because that's basically what you would pay for a DID or RK chain. Did you ever contact the seller?
 
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