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Last week, in the pouring rain, I rode my ST a few miles away from home, and then returned, piss wet through, a few hours later. For the outbound journey, my earplugs were well and truly in. That little trip had me thinking just how smoothly the bike was running, how refined (relatively.....) it felt, and how the only sound I could hear was the deep tone of the baffle-free Remus. 
On the return run, the plugs had gone awol, the only pair I had with me. O....M....G!!.....the bike sounded like a complete bag of shite.
Rattling, crashing, clunking - it was embarrassing, if there'd have been any pedestrians about, they'd have been turning round to see where the racket was coming from.
What was making the bloody row?!
Everything's fastened up nice and tight, its not the screen (a well-known source of rattles on the ST), I can't find anything loose, anywhere. Does it just sound like that because I'm sitting astride it? Could worn suspension cause it - originals are on 30k miles now, Shock Factory ones going on over the winter?
Anyway, pack of earplugs now put under the seat - at least I'll not hear the racket next time out!
Pete
On the return run, the plugs had gone awol, the only pair I had with me. O....M....G!!.....the bike sounded like a complete bag of shite.
Rattling, crashing, clunking - it was embarrassing, if there'd have been any pedestrians about, they'd have been turning round to see where the racket was coming from. What was making the bloody row?!
Everything's fastened up nice and tight, its not the screen (a well-known source of rattles on the ST), I can't find anything loose, anywhere. Does it just sound like that because I'm sitting astride it? Could worn suspension cause it - originals are on 30k miles now, Shock Factory ones going on over the winter? Anyway, pack of earplugs now put under the seat - at least I'll not hear the racket next time out!
Pete
- a tiny bit of movement 'in/out', none at all around the axle, if that makes sense, so I'm sure its not from the discs. There's a fender extender thing fitted - when I fitted one on my K1200R-Sport, that rattled like a bastard, so much that I had to bin it. It doesn't seem to be able to touch anything on the ST, at least not when the bike's stationary (same on the R!), so I might whip that off tomorrow, just to make sure.