07-08-2015, 12:40 PM
I have always experienced some whining noises since new, however, lately they seem more noticeable, and I'm hearing some sort of a clicking/vibration that sounds almost like something is loose.
I can hear the noises, particularly the vibration, only while the bike is warming up, yet I can't seem to locate them other than to say they sound like they are coming from the top/front of the engine, around the headers. I thought maybe the headers had somehow loosened but they don't feel that way.
I warm up the bike on the centerstand for a minute, until the cooling fins are warm, no more than a minute and a half, and I hear the noise as it is warming up. I leave my house and go down the road at an easy pace for a few blocks until the bike is thouroughly warmed up and the noise seems to go away. If I stop for more than a couple of minutes, (bike not running), and the engine cools down, the noise comes back. It is a sort of a knocking, rattling sound, accompanied by a vibration. It always goes away when the bike is good and warmed up.
Has anyone else encountered this? Or anything similar?
I can hear the noises, particularly the vibration, only while the bike is warming up, yet I can't seem to locate them other than to say they sound like they are coming from the top/front of the engine, around the headers. I thought maybe the headers had somehow loosened but they don't feel that way.
I warm up the bike on the centerstand for a minute, until the cooling fins are warm, no more than a minute and a half, and I hear the noise as it is warming up. I leave my house and go down the road at an easy pace for a few blocks until the bike is thouroughly warmed up and the noise seems to go away. If I stop for more than a couple of minutes, (bike not running), and the engine cools down, the noise comes back. It is a sort of a knocking, rattling sound, accompanied by a vibration. It always goes away when the bike is good and warmed up.
Has anyone else encountered this? Or anything similar?