As you know by now making way for the 240 tyre required off-setting
the chain and running the chain trough some
tunnels in the frame.
This is a sketch of what I initially though the offset
should be.
Marco from TKT spockets allready had a lot
of experience with wide-tyre converions and offset sprockets.
In 2002 he had showed us his FJ1200 project with 240-section tyre
at the HOK14 party.
He's also the man behind the modular offset-sprocket
on Robert's "Satan" GSX1100.
Modular as in a separate offset-axle with a exchangeable sprocket
allowing gearing changes.
All said and done at the next HOK party he gave me this
54.5mm offset sprocket, with a 20mm dia. nose that will allow the
sprocket to be supported by a standard Suzuki rear wheel bearing.
The sprocket is designed to slide over the output shaft.
Much care has been taken to make absolutely sure the
sprocket has zero outrun and centers on the outside of the spline.
But hey... what's this!?
Damn.
Someone made an error here calculating the offset. A 11.5mm error
to be exact.
Turned out I forgot to remove the thickness of the spacer behind the
sprocket in my calculations.
Luckily Marco showed great sportsmanship and modified the sprocket
without complaint.
A week later I could pick up the 43mm offset sprocket,
one-off rear chainwheel and "show-chain".
For now I'll be using this cheap, narrow, non O-ring 530 chain for
mock-up purposes as I don't want to be cutting a proper GP-spec chain
too short while sorting out the required wheelbase and such.