15-03-17, 11:23 PM
I had a flapping/clicking sort of noise once when riding home after a long trip, I stopped several times to try and find the source of the noise to no avail. So I pulled into a service area and had a cup of tea whilst giving the bike a though check over, found nothing finished my tea got back on the bike and no noise, a mystery.
About 3 weeks later I jumped on the bike just to pop down to my local town, Petersfield in Hants, and foc me the noise was back, I sat at home that night thinking about those two trips and the only common thing between the two trips was I wore my old Duchinni Helmet and not my LS2 Convert.
Now this is the embarrassing bit, it transpired that the noise was in fact the helmet strap tapping away on the back of my collar and the back of the helmet, The old Duchinni is one of those double D ring type fittings on the strap and I had not done the little popper up at the end of the strap, on my first trip when I noticed the noise I must have done the popper up after my cup of tea stop and again 3 weeks later when it happened again.
Now the upshot of this post is, apart from not coming out of all this in a very great light is, we often think the worse because we love out bikes and are fearful that something is going drastically wrong.
This is what I thought, is my cam chain focced, is it a small end bearing breaking up maybe a wheel bearing cos the noise gets less as I slow down and stops when the bike is stationary. No its a wayward helmet strap :rolleyes
About 3 weeks later I jumped on the bike just to pop down to my local town, Petersfield in Hants, and foc me the noise was back, I sat at home that night thinking about those two trips and the only common thing between the two trips was I wore my old Duchinni Helmet and not my LS2 Convert.
Now this is the embarrassing bit, it transpired that the noise was in fact the helmet strap tapping away on the back of my collar and the back of the helmet, The old Duchinni is one of those double D ring type fittings on the strap and I had not done the little popper up at the end of the strap, on my first trip when I noticed the noise I must have done the popper up after my cup of tea stop and again 3 weeks later when it happened again.
Now the upshot of this post is, apart from not coming out of all this in a very great light is, we often think the worse because we love out bikes and are fearful that something is going drastically wrong.
This is what I thought, is my cam chain focced, is it a small end bearing breaking up maybe a wheel bearing cos the noise gets less as I slow down and stops when the bike is stationary. No its a wayward helmet strap :rolleyes