Attempting Utah's INFAMOUS White Rim trail was a MISTAKE | S1E53

I was gonna do it at this park, but it's just looking for shade Maybe right here is fine by this concrete block Right where it says no parking My journey begins at North America's most northern drivable point The plan is to ride through Canada and America before crossing over to Europe From there, I'll make my way across Asia and down to Australia New Zealand's southern most drivable point will mark the end of my journey I'm calling it the big spiral and this is Act 3 Across North America Good morning So right now I'm on my way out of Anaconda and on my way to Butte and that's because there's a bike shop there that's open today and they have a chain for my bike so today I want to put a new chain on my bike so over time chains get looser and looser and there's a mechanism on the bike that allows you to tighten them and it should tighten them for like a fair amount of time but I've gotten to the point where I'll tighten it, go ride for two hours and it's loose again so it's actually quite bad now I think it's kind of a safety issue so I should yeah I'm gonna change it by chain I'm gonna try to do it myself I've never done it before but I'm a really independent person and I like to know how things work, you know I want to know how to do stuff in case I have to do it myself so I'm gonna give it a try today and yeah, we'll see see how it goes Butte some, I think some kind of mining tower it's famous for copper mines I believe actually there's maybe a lake I want to have a look at a lake it's basically this toxic tailings pond they dug a massive hole and then it filled with water and it's toxic it's kind of interesting actually cool buildings here Meiwot noodles and chop suey I like it Hotel Finland cool some history here huh I was gonna do it at this park but it's just looking for shade maybe right here is fine but it's concrete block right where it says no parking so I've actually got a chain tool, I've never used it before but I do understand the concept, I've done it many times on a bicycle it's a little different for a motorcycle and this tool has been sitting in for water for quite a while now because I dropped my motorcycle in a creek a few videos ago so, but I think the first step is to remove the old chain and so I'll have to use this tool to do that the chain is made up of pins that you have to push out let's see how this goes it's working sweet oh yes alright I got it off so now it's time to just put the new chain on alright so now I have to move the wheel forward so basically this bit there's like a lock nut and a bolt and this bolt pushes the wheel backwards, this is what tensions the chain, so as the wheel moves backwards the chain gets tensioned so as you can see I've already moved a fair ways back and so I need to loosen this nut and then bring the wheel forwards again so now that I've moved the wheel forward I can put the chain around the sprocket and then make the connection yes so what I just installed here is called a master link and basically it's a really convenient way to just install a chain very easily and remove as well anyways with this master link you have to install this piece that kind of holds the whole thing captive in the right direction because the chain is only going to rotate in one direction well for the most part if you installed this backwards it could pop off anyways now I just need to move the wheel back and tension the chain and I should be good to go that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be a little bit harder but it was fairly easy next time I'm going to have to do the sprockets as well for sure but for now this will make my bike safer because before the chain was making bad sounds and it was really sloppy all the time so this should help at least for the next month or two so the next thing I want to do is I want to install this so basically this is kind of an automatic chain oiler it's a really cheap one I hope it's okay I think part of the reason why my first chain kind of went bad so quickly is because basically I ran out of lube and then I had to spend a couple days riding without lube and so things you know when you don't lubricate stuff things start to wear out a lot faster so but it's not terrible I've done like probably 16,000 kilometers on that on the first chain so far so yeah I think this next one this chain won't last as long because I'm putting it on used sprockets but it'll do for now and it's a little bit of a band aid fix alright I think I've got my chain oiler mostly installed it took a little bit of you know engineering to figure out how to set it up but let me show you so this is the reservoir that will hold the oil and then out the bottom is a line, basically a hose but yeah so it goes down behind the swing arm here, down here, down here and then it comes down to this little mount here where the hose kind of presses up against the sprocket and the chain and as it turns it'll wear flat and kind of distribute the oil on the chain and apparently it will get to the other side of the chain as well so this was just a cheap thing I found on Amazon I think some of the better set ups are made over in Europe and it was just a little bit difficult for me to ship to myself so I just went for something on Amazon and gave it a try we'll see how it works but yeah, maybe let's put some oil in alright, let's see how this chain does okay, bike's moving that's good not making any weird sounds that's good too second gear very good alright, let's see how this chain is on the highway seems good well I'm glad I got all that stuff done today, the chain was kind of weighing on me a little bit I was a bit nervous about it so glad I got a new one on so I'm just heading to a hotel now and I'm going to get some work done and I'll see you in the next video