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Installing 14x50 right now. Thanks guys for the tips. I'll let you know about the new ratio

I'm selling my 2015 Triumph Tiger XCX. Has 1019 miles on it. Serviced at 800 miles. Equipment: 50/50 tires, extended windscreen, triumph short adjustable levers, hand guards, off-road lights, crash bar engine guard, skid plate, radiator guard, and arrow exhaust. Never downed, always garaged. 15,000 obo

Cole Townsend. Good guy... I bet he'd help.

I've run them on a CRF450R (Flexxbars) I used to ride a while back. They worked fine, but probably didn't appreciate them like I would today. Another product to consider is http://www.twistedengineering.com. They claim to be much lighter than flexxbars and flex in 360 degrees for a more natural flex. I know someone that's ridden with them and liked them a lot, also having ridden in Flexxbars for a number of years. But, to be fair, the Flexxbars were a gen or two older when he tested the Twisted Engineering handlebars.

Several of my old race buddies switched to these. pretty much every quad guy loved them, side to side beating is worse on the quads. Dirt bike guys who raced a long time appreciated them for the same reason as Jimmy Lewis, destroyed wrists/elbows etc and this takes some of the punch out of G-outs/rocks/holes etc. If you order some get a few sets of the elastomers so you can play around to find the stiffness that you like. I didn't mind the firmest set, but try the others out for yourself.

Those half-wits over at AboveTheBeast.com are on top of things. A new ride report that is as overdue as this year is expended. Check it out, it's an awesome route for the cooler months. http://www.abovethebeast.com/2016/01/bombing-runs-on-border.html

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15/50 is listed as stock, and is what was on the bike and just taken off. is that ratio an 800XC or 2012 to 2013 difference maybe? Hmmm.

I went with the 15/50 tooth JT sprockets and an EK 525 SRX-2 chain. Should last awhile.

Happy to help Nate. What did you choose for a chain and sprockets?

Be sure to loosen the front sprocket first, before removing the drive chain. Put the bike in neutral, have someone step on the rear brake lever and if possible, use an air impact wrench. It's torqued at 85Nm and is threadlocked. The nut is big @ 36mm. The rear is pretty self explanatory. Some say to always replace sprocket nuts & bolts, but this is not a hard/fast rule for me. I will typically reuse them once. Our bikes have a cush drive, so the hardware doesn't get as beat up as say on a typical dirt bike. But, if in doubt, install new ones. The rear sprocket to cush drive nuts torque at 55Nm. The one thing that I don't like about the Tiger is that there are no alignment lines on the swingarm and rear axle block. So, you'll have to do some measuring to be sure that the wheels is square in the swingarm. Otherwise you're reducing the useful life of the drive components. Chain adjuster nuts torque to 15Nm and the rear axle at 110. Since these components must stay torqued, I'd use some blue threadlocker (IMHO, red is too much) on the front sprocket and rear sprocket nuts. I would not use locker on the chain adjuster nut or axle. Also, if you're especially anal, use some of this stuff on the rear sprocket nuts. http://www.amazon.com/Tamper-Proof-Torque-Mark-Red/dp/B007ID3SLK Tiger 800 Torque Settings.pdf