BMW Motorrad presents the M Endurance chain - Lubricating your chain was yesterday. Maintenance-free like shaft drive for the first time.
For more than 90 years, the maintenance-free, environmentally friendly and comfortable shaft drive has been one of BMW Motorrad’s immovable technical cornerstones. With the M Endurance chain, BMW Motorrad now offers a maintenance-free chain with comparable characteristics for the first time.
Like previous X-ring chains, the M Endurance chain has a resident permanent lubricant filling between the rollers and pins, enclosed by X-rings. What is completely new, however, is that the previously necessary additional lubricant addition for the rollers and thus the familiar “chain lubrication” is no longer necessary, nor is any re-tensioning required from time to time due to the usual wear.
This enormous gain in comfort was made possible by using a new coating material for the rollers: tetrahedrally amorphous carbon (ta-C), also known as industrial diamond. This coating is characterized by extreme hardness and resistance and in this respect it is placed between the well-known DLC coating (Diamond Like Carbon) and pure diamond. In contrast to the metal surfaces used so far, the coating with the ta-C industrial diamond does not wear off. At the same time, this type of coating also offers a drastically reduced friction coefficient.
Thanks to excellent dry lubrication properties and the elimination of wear, the tetrahedral amorphous carbon coated rollers of the M Endurance chain offer maintenance comfort equivalent to that of a shaft drive motorcycle. This includes all the cleaning work that is unavoidable with a conventional chain due to splashed lubricant. Accordingly, the M Endurance chain also offers maximum environmental friendliness.
The M Endurance chain in 525 pitch is now available initially for the S1000R, S1000RR, and S1000XR.
X-ring drive chain:
-Maintenance-free Drive Chain:
--No lubrication needed.
--Minimal chain stretching occurs which minimalizes chain slack adjustments.
-Diamond Like Carbon coating material:
--DLC-coated rollers and bushings
-Permanently holds lubrication between the rollers and pins.
-DLC coated rollers and bushings:
--Coating material is Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon (ta-C) which is also known as industrial diamond.
--This coating material is characterized by extreme hardness/resistance and in this respect, it is placed between the well-known DLC coating and pure diamond rating.
--In contrast to the metal surfaces used in the drive chain industry thus far, the ta-C coating does not wear off.
--This ta-C coating provides excellent dry lubrication properties which drastically reduces friction and can provide approximately 1% more power to the rear wheel.
-Environmentally friendly:
--Due to chain cleaning and lubrication no longer needed, additional chemicals for normally required drive chain maintenance will not be released into the environment.
Choose length above, includes master link.
BMW M Endurance Chain
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