When I bought my bike, I had read enough to know I wanted gear drives and hotter cams, but, my friends (that do a lot of thier own maintenance) are still running the stock set-up.
I looked in the service manual, but, I'm not finding it.
What is the recommended service period for Cam Chain Tensioners?

 

There isn't one. There is a service wear limit, and it can be reached anywhere from 10,000 miles to more than 40,000 miles. So .. check often. Mine were fine at 30,000 miles, cam lobes were not. Go figure.

 

These tensioners seem to be a crap shoot. Mine still had 75% or so when I went gear at 40100 miles. Some go at 10,000 or less. It does appear that most of the wear happens in 1st 25,000. The only way to know is check.

 

Rule of thumb, if you're at 20-25k you best be checking. Second rule of thumb, if you're going in there why not just change them out while in there or switch to gears, or do the roller chain conversion as introduced on the 06 Dynas and 07+ models

 

Once, as im pitching them in the trash!

 

So is there some kind of a new set up that makes inspection a thing of the past?

 

The roller chains along with new hydrolic instead of spring loaded tensioners is SUPPOSE to fix the wear problem. I do not have any personal experiance with the new set ups but have not heard any complaints and appears to be a better system. Anything will wear after enough time.