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[Irish in Oz]

@hard road - Nice picture - however, you've got your rear axle fitted the wrong way around - the axle nut should be fitted on the chain/sprocket side.

Totally agree with Barmy if the motorcycle axle is not locked in the swingarm, like the older bikes. The reason is, if there is resistance between the axle and rotating parts (say damaged roller bearing) the torque produced could loosen the nut as the axle will spin clockwise viewed from non sprocket side.

[hard road]

@hard road - Nice picture - however, you've got your rear axle fitted the wrong way around - the axle nut should be fitted on the chain/sprocket side.

Totally agree with Barmy if the motorcycle axle is not locked in the swingarm, like the older bikes. The reason is, if there is resistance between the axle and rotating parts (say damaged roller bearing) the torque produced could loosen the nut as the axle will spin clockwise viewed from non sprocket side.

now that made me laugh !!!  in all my years working on bikes ive never seen or heard that  if a wheel bearing was in that bad a condition you would feel it on the road,plus its a thing that should be checked before riding anyway. IF that was a thing then the nut would never be fitted on the right, but as Tony nitrous posted some ARE on the right.  at the end of the day if the nut is tight to factory spec then its going nowhere.

this thread has got out of hand after posting a pic of my NEW BADGES !!!  

[Irish in Oz]

@hard road - Nice picture - however, you've got your rear axle fitted the wrong way around - the axle nut should be fitted on the chain/sprocket side.

Totally agree with Barmy if the motorcycle axle is not locked in the swingarm, like the older bikes. The reason is, if there is resistance between the axle and rotating parts (say damaged roller bearing) the torque produced could loosen the nut as the axle will spin clockwise viewed from non sprocket side.

now that made me laugh !!!  in all my years working on bikes ive never seen or heard that  if a wheel bearing was in that bad a condition you would feel it on the road,plus its a thing that should be checked before riding anyway. IF that was a thing then the nut would never be fitted on the right, but as Tony nitrous posted some ARE on the right.  at the end of the day if the nut is tight to factory spec then its going nowhere.

this thread has got out of hand after posting a pic of my NEW BADGES !!!  

Believe it or not these failures can happen during riding, as I said old machines when you where an apprentice the axle was not locked in the swingarm like a GSX1400 and other machines and that is why they where on the sprocket side.

[gsxbarmy]

OK, I'm locking this thread now to comments as I agree with @hard road it's gone way off topic of his new badges and I think we have all had our say on whether it really matters about which side the axle nut is, everyone having their own opinion.