DIRT PRODUCTS
1. Keeping things in line
With longer travel suspension becoming increasingly popular from the early Seventies, there was a need for rear chains to have some form of automatic tensioning facility so they could be slack enough to cope with the swinging arm travel, yet not so slack they would jump off the sprockets. This tensioning was tackled by a spring loaded device somewhere on the swinging arm. This particular one is produced by Chris Lewis at Elsinore ’74 and naturally fits the ’74 Elsinores he’s known for. Chris tells us the tensioner, which acts as a guide too, can be fitted to other makes
