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When my boy had one it suffered a common fault with the clutch basket drive cog splitting. Was never a prob but drove me nuts to the point I had to replace it.

Enjoy.

That's an odd looking push bike

To be honest as long as it's not anything that leads to mechanical doom I do care that much. Shadow can get used to the noise. Tis a tiny air cooled single always gonna have a noisy motor one way or another. I am pretty relieved it's not coming from the engine casing just the same, thanks for the tip, I don't know why I didn't think of it, I saw my dad doing it often enough back in the day. I will see if I can source a stethoscope or just buy one from Machine Mart as Buckster suggested.

How long does this retail therapy go on for? Exhaust does fit the bike nice.

Could be the old spot weld come undone in the exhaust. Good hunting.

Wow, another inappropriate B.O.T.M. submission :)

@Clive just moored up

Well finally got my old shed cleaned out with a fresh roof on it so I have somewhere to work on my bikes. Did the roof yesterday and all drying out nicely in there today despite pissing down all night. So no reason not to get on with the jobs in hand now. I think I will get the service done first then move onto the fork seals after. Found this while cleaning the shed out Also be under no illusions the shed is rotten in places, could be fixed and I may during the summer I have plenty of wood around to do it. Being arsed is the factor. Be a lot cheaper than replacing it. Smells pretty funky in there hoping that will go as it dries out. I bought the shed 20 plus years ago to keep my R100RS and R100R in. Obviously no work benches then. I got a photo somewhere.

He will probably think twice before driving like that again. Deserved all he got

Just been out checking with a screwdriver as you suggest and that rattling is not coming from the engine. I have tried all over the motor and gearbox and all I hear is mechanical whirring noise as it should be. No rattles at all in the casing as far as I can tell. Shadow is off to Truro in a minute but I will strip the panels off later when she gets back and look for something loose, the rattle is sort of metallic so should narrow it down a little.

Toying with getting one of these for my Hornet. Anyone any experience of them?

Yeah the CBF125 is a weird looking arrangement not like a normal tensioner.

Worked for me.

I’m pretty sure the current motor they use is a Chinese built derivative of the Yamaha lump they used on the earlier bikes, regardless of if they fold or not, I suspect the bikes will continue to be made but possibly under a different name. It would make a good addition to some other brand that only has mega expensive bikes like Norton for example.

Stealing pictures off instagram again?

If it is a hydraulic tensioner you can usually unload it while the bike is running and then release it to see if it takes up the tension.

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Don't think the link works...soz

I did when I checked the valve clearances, all looked good

https://www.adventurebikerider.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25851

Odds are it is the cam chain tensioner then, have you checked to see if it is tensioning? There is usually some sort of simple test.

I will do that. I had another good listen earlier when i was repairing the crash damage she did today. The rattle sounds much worse on the video that it does in the real life. I think I am going to monitor it for now. I did clean out the sprocket cover earlier and it was full of greasy shit so now sorted but nothing in their to rattle that I could see.

Bought the Hornet a prezzie. Had a shit couple of weeks so did some retail therapy.

She is 17 not 40/50. I'm sure we all fucked up at that age. Anyway she came home and I pretty much sorted it out, again. Indicators repaired, foot pegs swapped out. Headlight is fine, one of the cheeks around the light is scratched up but I have a plan for that. I resprayed the scratched exhaust and crash bars all back to being tidy. I cleaned out in the front sprocket cover all is good in there. Had another good listen to the rattle and it sounds much worse on the video than in real life, I tempted to leave it and monitor it to see what develops. She is off out again with her boyfriend. She has been suitably chided and is contrite. Luckily she had all her protective gear on so only her pride hurt. Boyfriend has promised to keep and eye on her. While riding the wave of annoyance I finally got around to reroofing my old shed so I can strip the CBF600 down in it. I have been loathed to take it to pieces outside in case I hit a snag and couldn't complete it in the one day. So I'm going to crack on with it tomorrow and get my yearly service and forks sorted.