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posted May 19, 2010 04:35 AM
14 Chain Vortex Sprocket
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posted May 19, 2010 05:13 AM
Sweet! Finally a pic of my bike. ZZZ with both Vortex sprockets. More to come. Thanks again 68gts2. Uda man.
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posted May 19, 2010 06:37 AM
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That rear aluminum Vortex will be eaten up pretty quick by the 14. I just had to change mine last night and only had about 1000 miles on it. I can't speak for the front...
And yes my chain was lubed and adjusted properly.
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posted May 19, 2010 06:45 AM
What? U do a lot of drag racing with it?
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posted May 19, 2010 07:52 AM
Got a 44 t aluminum Vortex on the back with many passes at the strip. No problems.
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posted May 19, 2010 07:57 AM
I always check my sprockets even though the Vortex and the chain only have about 500 miles with NO signs of any problems. Lube helps a little. Hehehe
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posted May 19, 2010 08:00 AM
The aluminums will wear faster than steel sprockets. I have yet to replace a rear Vortex because it was wore out. If your only getting 1000 miles out of one, you have other issues that are wrong.
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posted May 19, 2010 08:17 AM
My mechanic got 25,000 miles out of an aluminum rear sprocket, he beat the piss outa that skoot too. Everytime i have a customer come in with an aluminum rear sprocket eaten up b4 it's time it is due to lack or improper maintenance/installation/adjustment coupled with
abuse. Put it all together in some combination and it's bye bye.
I have over 20,000 miles on the rear aluminum sprocket on my Busa, and it's still got plenty left.
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posted May 19, 2010 08:43 AM
Edited By: dubious on 19 May 2010 16:46
punks and monkeys
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posted May 19, 2010 08:44 AM
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That rear aluminum Vortex will be eaten up pretty quick by the 14. I just had to change mine last night and only had about 1000 miles on it. I can't speak for the front...
And yes my chain was lubed and adjusted properly.
5K on my vortex aluminum sprocket, Looks like new. I'm very hard on my bike too.
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posted May 19, 2010 09:14 AM
whats murdered out and in the dirt mean?
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posted May 19, 2010 12:12 PM
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If your only getting 1000 miles out of one, you have other issues that are wrong.
Nope... Just the shitty aluminum.. Stick to steel and there aren't any problems.
I do all my proper maintenance, been doing it too many years to count.. Used to be a mechanic and got tired of working on other people's toys so I only work on my own now..
I am so done with offering anything up to you clowns... aside from one or two on here none of you are worth my energy... I can see why so many drop off and don't bother anymore...
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posted May 19, 2010 12:16 PM
Somebody in need of a reach around?
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posted May 19, 2010 12:16 PM
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whats murdered out and in the dirt mean?
blacked out & lowered in english
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posted May 19, 2010 12:41 PM
Wow so now I'm a clown. Guess I better get bigger shoes. LOL
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posted May 19, 2010 12:50 PM
Hey murdered out and in the dirt is english.
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posted May 19, 2010 12:53 PM
Makenna, everyone is just offering up their personal experience and they convey it in different ways. Don't take anything personally!! Good to see another Yosh user here!!!
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posted May 19, 2010 01:34 PM
Maybe those of us with alternative points of view, real world experiences that do not match others (and quite a few don't match makenna's experience) should fore-warn the clowns to NOT read our responses as the clowns will consider them all wrong!!??
Dude...if you wasting an aluminum sprocket in 1000 miles somethig is NOT RIGHT!! Or you are a very brutal person in how you operate your skoot? Could you be at least a tiny bit open-minded to what has been offered here?
I have been working on skoots professionally for 33 1/2 years and i'm not tired of it yet, i have learned soooo much and i still have soooo much to learn. Maybe you stopped working on skoots cuz you got tired, or maybe it's cuz you ended up knowing it all and there was no sense in continiung a career in it? There was no more to learn?
I don't know...just asking.
Anyways, although the Vortex rear sprockets are not the lighteset, with their new hard anodized/teflon coated sprockets they have the longest wearing sprockets. I used to sell only Sprocket Specialist hard anodized sprockets but the Vortex ones have a nice advantage with the Teflon.
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posted May 19, 2010 01:49 PM
Edited By: SteddyTeddy on 19 May 2010 21:50
RACNRAY, being in the business you know very well that good mechanics are VERY VERY rare and hard to find. The good ones keep doing, the bad ones...... 
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posted May 19, 2010 02:32 PM
makenna I here you they just want to fight.Im off this site too.IM out with you and alot people.There are a few like shane that do know there stuff but dont have the tude to go with it.Many have left this site because there are a few oliners that are just cocky punks and they can only be this way online.See em in person and there just a joke.If they dont like what you say they start crap and dump on you.dubious is one that is cancer to this site.Has a mouth and is an 80s know it all punk.He tried to school me on drag racing big blocks something ive been around since a child and i ran my own blown car for 9 years.But I dont even think he knows what a 110 enderly pump is or a bug or bird catcher is.Just didnt want to school a loser like him.Thanks to few very cool people for there help.Off the site.out
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posted May 19, 2010 02:40 PM
Edited By: dubious on 19 May 2010 23:25
I don't think he was referring to either of you 2.
1000 miles is brutal, much worse than my experience,
heat kills chains, and stretched chains kill sprokets.
Not enough heat is produced in 1/4 miles at a time, or 10/10ths either... to compare to long range 600+ mile days.
Rides measured in hours rather than seconds put tremendous heat into the rollers, pins, plates and stretches a chain.
Thats not to say the loads are not tremendous at the track, in fact that is why most chains break at the track, and chains hop teeth on the street, when used to their extreme limits, without proper adjustment or service.
That said, no aluminum will last 1/4 the steel counterparts.
aluminum just doesn't have the hardness to endure it.
I agree, there certainly aren't enough good mechanics.
I will never pretend to know it all, but i knew enough to realise I would never make enough money to put my kid through school
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posted May 19, 2010 03:42 PM
that was not meant to disrespect any mechanics by any means. In fact contrary.
Working with customers took the fun out of wrenching my own stuff too.
seems like when it became my income, it sucked the fun out of it.
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posted May 19, 2010 04:56 PM
I hate to put my $.02 in after a few people getting their panties in a wad, but i had a vortex sprocket last 7,000 miles with a ton of dragstrip miles and it still had some left. I now have the hardened sprocket from vortex and I have 3,000 miles on it and the coating hasn't wore off it yet. I see nothing wrong with alum sprockets.
Just a thought, if they only lasted 1,000 miles they wouldn't be in business too long after people complaining.
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posted May 19, 2010 05:58 PM
I noticed the front sprocket does not have the dampner material on the sides?? Front is Steel?
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posted May 19, 2010 06:20 PM
I'm pretty sure the fronts are steel.
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