A freeky thing happened yesterday

[Spyderjockey]

We were on our way to a PGR mission yesterday and had just left our house when I must have hit something in the road in a dip where the town had replaced a drainage pipe last summer. They have never fixed the blacktop since they had it dug up and it is quite annoying to go over that dip everytime we have to go anywhere. Anyway whatever it was (I didn't even see anything) it popped up and hit my rear sprocket and knocked my belt off. I at first thought my front sprocket had came off and that is why our belt was off. We walked back to the house to get our Kubota to tow the Spyder back home, but when I was trying to get the belt up away from the rear spocket my son noticed that the front spocket was still there. When I got back home with it I took some of the tupperware off and everything seemed all right except we could see where something had hit the belt pretty hard and left a mark on it, but no real damage to it though. I finally got the belt realigned and my wife and I went for about a 100 mile ride after we test drove it for 3 or 4 miles with my son following behind us. Everything was fine on our ride and no problem with the belt.:thumbup: It was the stangest thing we have had happen since we have had the Spyder.:gaah:

 

[rnet]

Good that it all worked out.

 

[Bob Denman]

Jim,
:yikes: It's a good thing that it happened so close to home! :thumbup:
The mark on the belt; did you pop a picture of it?
And the belt is running true in the sprockets? GOOD! :2thumbs:
Glad to hear that it really only cost you some time in the saddle... (and a little bit of shoe leather for the hike!)

 

[retread]

Make sure the belt tension is right, expensive things happen if it's too tight.

john

 

[Bob Denman]

Jim,
Is this your belt that has all of those miles on it? :shocked:
If so; it might be taken as a sign to just replace it now...

 

[boborgera]

Could be you hit/ran over a small stick or branch and it derailed the belt....:dontknow: Keep an eye on the belt, And if it looks problematic replace it....

 

[Bob Ledford]

As Scottty told me one time, the darnedest things can cause you drive belt grief. Chances are you kicked up a minute chunk of debris from that street fault and it kicked the belt right off instead of breaking it. :banghead:

 

[grumpybob]

Glad to hear it was not worse. Hope no other problems crop up because of it. Ride safe, Nan & GrumpyBob.

 

[Spyderjockey]

Thanks for all the replies and concern about my little incident, and all still seems well with the belt. I think the rear sprocket took the hit, my wife said she saw something go rolling off the road into the grass and I thought at first I must have dropped the front sprocket and that was we hit. It is weird that I did not see anything in that dip in the road that could have caused this. It really was "freeky".:gaah:

I did make sure the belt tension is right with my Krikit gauge the hardest thing was getting the alignment right. As far as replacing the belt I really don't see a need to at this time the belt still looks fine and I am going to keep an eye on it. May have to replace the rear tire in the fairly near future and will look at the option of belt replacement then.

 

[Bob Denman]

So... No harm; no foul! :2thumbs: