Hi y'all, an interesting thing happened on the way to a ride out yesterday.
As I banked over to make a right hand turn the clacking stopped. As soon I was upright it started again, interesting I though. So I pulled up in a convenient pull in without stopping the engine, put it on the centre stand (still clacking) and tilted over to the right, the clacking stopped. Hmmmm?
Still with it tilted over I stopped the engine counted to 5 slowly and restarted, and put the bike back upright. The clacking didn't restart. Nor did it do it again for the rest of the day.
All this happened within a few yards from home. When its happened before its usually a couple of miles down the road.
The nights are getting colder now so I expect the clacking to become a bit more frequent with colder starts. I will try starting it with it tilted over to the right and see what happens.
The oil level is correct in the way this forum likes it. I'm on the last fill up with 10W 40 semi-synthetic which will be changed in the next couple of hundred miles to 15W 50. The bike has something over 2000 miles on it and the motor is smoothing out nicely.
I'll keep you posted, cheers, Shappers.