nbells

I have been riding Road Angels on my CBF1000 for about 8 years, found them very hard wearing and good in the dry but wet weather is not so good., They tended to skip n slide a bit, the back would quite often breakaway under load. Switched over to Road 5 and what a difference, the Road 5's are alot softer but give alot more feedback on the front and back and dry handling is great. So when I got my new Tracer GT a month back, the first thing I did was to put on Road 5's, I have no reservations and think the 5s are a far superior tyre compared to the Angels. The 5's being softer, mileage will suffer, I could get 10k miles aout of a set of Angels, but only get about 7-8k out of the 5's When I roll the GT across the garage floor you can hear the 5's gripping to the surface 🙂

In normal running the chain will never come into contact with the tyre., its purely laws of physics coming in to play. The only way you'll get the chain to move sideways while running is if the coriolis effect takes place ... and that will never occur as you need a process flow for that ! if your chain is in good condition and to the correct tension then you have nothing to worry about. However if your chain has worn sideplates or missing x rings then side play will be a bit more excessive.

After speaking to my Yamaha Tech, the quickshifter is not programmed to work in 1st or 2nd hence clunky shifts if you try it in these gears. The QS is designed to unload the stress on the gearbox above 4600rpm in 3rd 4th 5th & 6th. As stated in a comment above give it full beans and above 4600rpm just very quickly change gear keeping the throttle pinned open ( do not use the clutch) ...... what an exhilarating ride ! Do not keep the gear lever in the "up" position too long its important to release it again asap.. The QS is on the up shift only, it wont work on the down shift. Thats my understanding ... always welcomed to be corrected. Nigel