Bloody annoying rattle

Listen, this small speed ramp at work .....

For god's sake man stop fannying about with all this front wheel over it first then the back wheel, get some speed up, get the front wheel in the air and get over it like a proper rider.

If you can keep the wheelie going through the works to where you park so much the better. A rear wheel slide into the parking bay would also do no harm at this stage.

You won't hear the rattle for the applause.
 
Brewster said:
Listen, this small speed ramp at work .....

For god's sake man stop fannying about with all this front wheel over it first then the back wheel, get some speed up, get the front wheel in the air and get over it like a proper rider.

If you can keep the wheelie going through the works to where you park so much the better. A rear wheel slide into the parking bay would also do no harm at this stage.

You won't hear the rattle for the applause.
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Now then Brewster, I like yer style. Problem is, there are one or two gentlemen who work where I do, wearing big yellow jackets, drive large and very powerful cars with pretty lights on the top, and would nick their own grandmothers. They would appplaud loudly, I have no doubt, as they write up the paperwork.

If you see wot I mean:D
 
Clanking

Well why didn't you say,If you had of said clanking straight away,I could have told you what it was,but you said rattling,which would have been the discs,but you've now changed your mind.

I won't tell you what the clanking is,because if I do,you'll say that's not it,and that it's more of a clattering or tapping noise.

I'm going to play with my duck in the bath now,which makes a moooing noise.

Please decide what sort of noise your imaginary bike is making:thumb
 
I have decided to deal with the noise by way of bigger earplugs!!!! I have got fed up of trying to find the noise now. Nowts fell off yet, nothing I can find is loose, so its not that bad. I will wait and see what transpires.

Still clanking, tho:P
 
Top man,you're getting the hang of it now:thumb

I've always found earplugs and big boots are the cure to many a rattle and lumpy gearbox:clap
 
Flying banana said:
I still think its something to do with the tank, tho'. Now I have had a bit more time to listen to it, its definately a clanking type of noise. Yes, yes, I know I said it was a rattle, but you get the gist!!
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Does it happen all the time, or maybe only when the tank's half full or less???
(Possibly a bent floatarm making the float end knock on the tank wall?)

Is it rythmic, ie something 'working' or running (some sort of cam or shaft off centre in fuel pump?), or is it a random clank, no pattern.......(something knocking around in it unnatached?)

How often does it happen, and when it does, is it a one off clank or a series??

We need to know now :)
 
Have you checked for rattlesnakes.
If they can get on a plane they can get anywhere.
 
Fanum said:
Does it happen all the time, or maybe only when the tank's half full or less???
(Possibly a bent floatarm making the float end knock on the tank wall?)

Is it rythmic, ie something 'working' or running (some sort of cam or shaft off centre in fuel pump?), or is it a random clank, no pattern.......(something knocking around in it unnatached?)

How often does it happen, and when it does, is it a one off clank or a series??

We need to know now :)
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Right, I thought everyone was bored by now, clearly not, so here I go...well, you asked for it:P

Bill, its not rhythmic, its intermittent, and I think, although not yet definate, when the tank is full, goes away. Its almost as if the weight of the fuel is causing the tank to settle. When the fuel weight comes down, the tank rises, and allows whatever it is to move generally when going over bumps. Does that make sense?

I did wonder about a bent float arm. If thats the case, God knows how it got bent. The best way i can describe the sound is if you were to take the tank off, and tap it, the noise is very similar. I think I said earlier in this thread (can't be sure) that the tank is quite free-moving on its mountings, as if the rubbers have worn. I wonder if the tank is moving, and clouting summat underneath, such as the battery, which I know sits quite close to the underside of the tank.

Den, I did check for small rodents and snakes, but definately nowt there. :D

Good this, innit???:thumb
 
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EDIT.....I thought you'd gone....didn't you emigrate or die or turn into a ladyboy or something??? :nenau
Whatever...welcome back Bert.
er..
Phil.

:whip Dost thou usest my name in vain you Landy fiend? :D


and Phil.....sounds like it's your piston moving IMHO :rolleyes: :D ;)
(should have used locktite 243 :D )
 
Right, I think we are getting somewhere now!

Rode the bike for about an hour and a half this evening. When I first rode off, it was clanking like a good 'un, even through earplugs. I rode a variety of B and A roads, including dual carriageways. I became aware that the noise had all but gone after about 1/2 hour. When I rode up the street to my house, which is wonderfully surfaced and smooth as a billiard table:rolleyes: (not), there was the sound of silence as far as the clanking was concerned, despite me crashing it over potholes and the like. It has done this before. My first thought a few weeks ago when its started doing it, was that something in the exhaust system was loose, and as the system heated up, summat expanded and stopped the noise. 'Cos when its cold, the noise starts up again!!!:mad:

Bloody bizarre, all this.
 
My wifes Subaru Forester did this. Rattle sometimes, big clanking sometimes, started on holiday in France going round roundabouts anticlockwise. Sounds like a loose exhaust she said. Dont be stupid I said, 'tis a shock gone. Or wheel bearing, or.......Dealer found nowt wrong. Then started making appalling noises when we where house hunting in Kings Hill (but nowhere else) - we didn't buy there in the end - couldn't bear the thought of a permanantely rattely (or was that clanking?) car. Back to dealer three times (and they have always been fantastic in the past), finally they heard the noise. Sort of. it was the cover rattling in the spare wheel, drive around for a week with no spare wheel, no noise, then down Kings Hill at the weekend for 5 viewings and the clanking became a banging.

Gave to dealer for a couple of days - fixed. And this is where I am going to be less helpful than I should be. Something to do with the fact that when the exhaust got hot it was expanding in such a way that it was expanding out of the retaining brackets and banging away as it was now loose, but when it was cold it was contracting back and retaining itself again. Or maybe it was the brackets that where expanding. Not sure, was having difficulty listnening to the mechanic, the noise of the misus was drowning him out. "I told you it was a loose exhaust, remember, 3 months ago in France, I said 'it sounds like a loose exhaust.........'
 
I have a standard exhaust can i can lend you to try out to see if it is this causing the problem. I'm not far away and can bring it over. Pm me or buzz me on 07780 717933

Marcus.
 
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