How difficult is it to do this on an NC30? Mine are totally knackered, and we want to tackle this job ourselves.
Any advice greatly appreciated.

Doddle hardest part is getting the front sprocket bolt undone
Oh and if using a hard link or soft link , peening the end over without the right tool.

If you have a decent chain tool it is no worries.

loosen the front sprocket - rattle gun or enormous breaker bar - six sided socket if you can.. Treat it with some serious contempt..and it will crack off nicely.

grind your chain off, swap the stuff over, fit the chain.

swanky times!

I did mine some years ago, and borrowed a decent rivet tool. It cost me a fortune in the long term. I'd become fed up with the bike shop that supplied me with the chain that failed, and refused to go back to them to have the new one fitted as they did bugger all about chasing the supplier of the original despite the fact that it was still under the miles and years for the warranty (in hindsight, it was most likely a lack of adjustment that did it as in those days my paddock stand lived elsewhere and it had been ages since I'd done it). Anyway, with a decent tool it was dead easy to peen the soft rivets over. That act of kindness saw the bloke who lent me the tool become my regular spannerman until he retired at the beginning of this year due to poor health. Reckon I probably spent five grand on servicing and other work over the years due to the silly miles I racked up!

See if you can borrow a decent one, it's not something you want to use a cheap tool on and end up with a naff join. When mine broke, it sliced the chainguard into three very clean pieces, and smashed a fist sized hole in my carbon can! I'm just glad it didn't hit a casing or my leg!

Jo i have a whale brand chain hammer, makes fitting soft / hard links a doddle. never had faith in split links.
welcome to send a courier to collect it and post it back when your done if you want to use it.

Jo, As they said, and dont use a split link, but i have managed to fit a soft link without the tool in the past. If you can set up near a wall and make up something to use as an anvil against the wall you can peen the softlink with a dot punch and ball peen hammer. Bit fiddly, and make sure you have the spacers fitted so you dont pinch the o rings when you do it.
If you can borrow a good quality tool then so much the better, the cheap ones just bend before they do any good.
Have fun, Dave

Someone at work suggested countin the links in my old chain, bringing the new one in and getting them to rivet it to the same number of links without it on the bike. It's not a split link chain. Is this a good idea? Or shall I try and borrow and riveter?

jo wrote:Someone at work suggested countin the links in my old chain, bringing the new one in and getting them to rivet it to the same number of links without it on the bike. It's not a split link chain. Is this a good idea? Or shall I try and borrow and riveter?

youll need to remove the swingarm then quite a task for the sake of changing a chain, exhuast off, shock off, wheel off etc,

i use split links, always have, i also lockwire the clip in place for added piece of mind,

I'd say the riveter that CRM posted a pic of is as near as dammit identical as the one I was lent. Pretty costly, but damn good. As for split links, I thought they were a no-no on anything bigger than 125/250cc?

ohh and its a 104Links for the 30, 102 for the 35