I do wonder about this whole chain tensions thing.
@dma
I agree with you!
As I mentioned in my recent 18 month ownership review, I can’t use the recommended method because I have an ABBA stand which lifts on the swingarm pivot. I therefore use my neighbour sitting on the bike whilst I measure and adjust as a pragmatic means of getting a reasonable result. At least it simulates a “real world” condition. I’d like to experiment with the effect of different loads on chain tension as I think that the 790 is reasonably sensitive to varying loads, based on when I loaded it up for a tour back in February and it ended up drum tight. Low priority at the moment though.
Yesterday, I took a rider for an IAM advanced riding test and part of it was in heavy city traffic. In street mode in first gear, the 790 was snatching quite badly on occasion so I put it in rain mode. That helped a bit but I still feathered the clutch now and then to smooth things out. Chain tension may have been irrelevant though and just a characteristic of the bike and the impact of Euro emission regulations. Fortunately, I spend very little time in those conditions.