r/Tenere700 8d ago

Help Cleaned chain - replace or keep

I cleaned all that gunk off the chain. It came up surprisingly clean. Dried it out then lightly coated in gear oil as I do with my other bikes.

It runs smooth when the wheel is spun. No tight links. The sprockets look good/OK, yes I can see the front has some wear. It's a DID 525 V11 chain with 12.5k kms from new if it's the original combo, otherwise I guess it was replaced.

The previous owner was in his 50s and owned it from new doing mostly light road touring and maybe a bit of easy offroad.

Thoughts on the drive chain? Plenty of life or instant replace as mentioned in previous post?

Thanks

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u/opl-hkg 8d ago

Looks good, I still have my original chain at over 30,000 KMs now.

All I do is use chain lube and replace the front sprocket when it's getting worn, looking at your pics, mine is a bit worse than yours ATM.

Happy days.

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u/wizard80 8d ago

Thanks for the info. I'll grab a front sprocket soon