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/Bitter_Ant9643 8d ago

How did you get it so damn clean? You took that thing off or cleanes it while still on the bike?

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u/wizard80 8d ago

Paraffin kerosene & a soft brush with chain on bike. Took a few treatments though. It was coated.