A rivet link can ONLY make a sound when it's actually going around the sprocket, most of the time it's just along for the ride. So a bad rivet link would probably make a "tick tick tick" every time it went around the front sprocket, I don't think it'd make a whining noise.
If you changed your front sprocket WITH THE BIKE IN GEAR?!?! Then maybe. NEVER ever do that
Always have someone hold down the rear brake peddle, with the bike in neutral, when removing or tightening the front sprocket nut
I'm not a transmission expert, but I had someone PM me saying they had just left the bike in gear to torque on the front sprocket nut, and was getting the whining noise too, but didn't want to be humiliated publicly on the forum. He took it to a few shops, didn't feel confident that he was able to crack open the tranny himself, paid $930 to fix it.
-Jamie M.
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