Just when I thought I could relax and enjoy the ride…
Okay, so yesterday I decided to brave the cold and enjoy the sun on nice salt free dry roads. 2nd kick and within a mile perfect idle without adjusting the FCR idle speed, perfect.
20 minutes later, 10 miles down range, one of my favourite local roads was clear time to scoot on a bit. Then accelerating half throttle in 3rd at approx 4k rpm and loudish ‘chirrrp’ from underneath me, or at least that’s my perception with custom earplugs with an open face helmet, WTF? Beyond and below 4k nothing. At no point is there any loss of power or any change in acceleration rate and no accompanying vibration above the norm. No smoke.
This continued for a few miles, in any gear bar top (too fast for these roads) somewhere between 3.75-4k rpm, chirrrrp. On route back it stopped and then I hit traffic the rest of the way so those rpms weren’t appropriate. Riding below these revs accelerating as hard as I like all is normal. This was the 3rd ride in the last week so it’s not been standing, no issues before just suddenly yesterday.
This morning I’ve checked for anything loose, especially header nuts and my recent silencer swap that the clamps were tight, all good. I did wonder if it was somehow a sloppy chain but that’s 25mm on side stand so no.
Very odd but obviously keen to find the cause here before it’s more of an issue