(05-23-2016, 09:50 PM)Noleshot_imp Wrote: I wouldn't worry too much about the minor noises I am reading about on this forum. I am amazed at how quiet my CB is compared to my other bike, a BMWF800ST! The ST is a water cooled 800 twin, which has many fewer parts zinging around than the CB. Yet, it sounds like two skeletons wrestling on a tin roof.....perfectly normal for the little Rotax! The small noises that can be heard on a CB1100 are only noticeable because the thing is as mechanically quiet as a turbine. I marvel at how Honda engineered all those reciprocating parts into virtual silence inside a mass of ringing cooling fins. While I understand the annoyance of a new sound, I think a "real" problem will be readily evident.

(05-23-2016, 11:23 PM)Speed_imp Wrote:

(05-23-2016, 09:50 PM)Noleshot_imp Wrote: I wouldn't worry too much about the minor noises I am reading about on this forum. I am amazed at how quiet my CB is compared to my other bike, a BMWF800ST! The ST is a water cooled 800 twin, which has many fewer parts zinging around than the CB. Yet, it sounds like two skeletons wrestling on a tin roof.....perfectly normal for the little Rotax! The small noises that can be heard on a CB1100 are only noticeable because the thing is as mechanically quiet as a turbine. I marvel at how Honda engineered all those reciprocating parts into virtual silence inside a mass of ringing cooling fins. While I understand the annoyance of a new sound, I think a "real" problem will be readily evident.

No, no... my noise when cold was quite bad. my other bike was a kawasaki zephyr named "trocotro", so I am used to hear terrible clanks and clonks, most of all when cold. Three exhaust valves were too open (and the standar 0,28mm is already quite open) and were keeping a bad noise when cold which disappeared after the adjustment... the engine bottom noises and air cooled normal noises doesn´t bother me that much.