Okay, first I have to apologize for the long write up. I just want to ensure that I have the full story out there for better diagnoses.
Okay, so today I went riding with one of my buddies. We hit a straight stretch where we were able to open it up a little bit. We came around the corner where we needed to come to a stop but while stopping the rear wheel lost traction and started skipping around. While it was doing this I missed the shift from 2nd to first. Yeah I don't really know how I did that but I did. So when I realized that I missed the shift I then shifted into 1st with out blipping the throttle all the while the back end is still skipping on me. I come to a stop with nothing really happening (or so I thought.) So, we start going down the road again and my bike feels as though it is now surging. It almost feels as though I have a out of balance wheel or a warped rotor. We stop a few times to try to figure out what was going on. The first time that we stopped I noticed that my chain was extremely loose. I thought that was odd because I had just recently removed and replaced the rear wheel. So, I tightened it up and continued on. Unfortunately it did not make any bit of a difference. We finally made it back to my place where we could put it on the rear stand. We spent about 30 minutes trying to eliminate what might be causing this surge feeling. When spinning the wheel we were finally able to pinpoint it down to the chain being the culprit. The way we did this was mark a spot on the rotor, sprocket, chain and the wheel to try to figure out where the pattern was. It seems as though whenever the chain gets to a certain position that the chain becomes super tight. It doesn't matter where the sprocket is on this cycle. I have never had a streched chain, but is this what happens? By having it loose to begin with, did the chain jump a tooth and just stratch a single spot in the chain? Any thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I hope that this wasn't too long for all of you.
Okay, so today I went riding with one of my buddies. We hit a straight stretch where we were able to open it up a little bit. We came around the corner where we needed to come to a stop but while stopping the rear wheel lost traction and started skipping around. While it was doing this I missed the shift from 2nd to first. Yeah I don't really know how I did that but I did. So when I realized that I missed the shift I then shifted into 1st with out blipping the throttle all the while the back end is still skipping on me. I come to a stop with nothing really happening (or so I thought.) So, we start going down the road again and my bike feels as though it is now surging. It almost feels as though I have a out of balance wheel or a warped rotor. We stop a few times to try to figure out what was going on. The first time that we stopped I noticed that my chain was extremely loose. I thought that was odd because I had just recently removed and replaced the rear wheel. So, I tightened it up and continued on. Unfortunately it did not make any bit of a difference. We finally made it back to my place where we could put it on the rear stand. We spent about 30 minutes trying to eliminate what might be causing this surge feeling. When spinning the wheel we were finally able to pinpoint it down to the chain being the culprit. The way we did this was mark a spot on the rotor, sprocket, chain and the wheel to try to figure out where the pattern was. It seems as though whenever the chain gets to a certain position that the chain becomes super tight. It doesn't matter where the sprocket is on this cycle. I have never had a streched chain, but is this what happens? By having it loose to begin with, did the chain jump a tooth and just stratch a single spot in the chain? Any thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I hope that this wasn't too long for all of you.