Ticking sound in front of the engine - Should I worry?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8KoJMF0dVA

[yorkie_chris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK6Mc...e=channel_page

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK6Mc...e=channel_page

Yeeesh. How did that story end?

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[yorkie_chris]

Crunch.

Can you get a video of the sound (put on youtube perhaps) andreis?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Greek, the vid you posted is on a 4 pot, these have far more valves acting on each revolution of the same chain, so more reversals of tension on the chain. The SV only having 2 cams on the one chain means the ticking is far lower in frequency than that vid. I reckon the sound itself is pretty realistic.

Find ljharmitts vid, that one is a classic "if it sounds like this it's about to lunch itself" post.

Best I could find But it gives an idea of the kinda noise.

Edit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBb__oK4OcU SV version.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by sinbad

Yeeesh. How did that story end?

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Love the comment from the guy at the top

Originally Posted by dribbling spastic on youtube

yeah it your wheel barrings

F#ck me how do these people not fall over through sheer stupidity?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Love the comment from the guy at the top



F#ck me how do these people not fall over through sheer stupidity?

Indeed sounds like brilliant advice. I always try to make sure that what I say is right. Most of the time I do ok but that was as far off as you can get tbh!

Well, can't get a hold of the owner today, but I did get a hold of a new posting for sale, and doing the math, I figured I come to just about the same price with a non-problem bike that's more expensive at first then a problem bike that's cheaper.
Thanks everyone for your input, but I'm gonna go with one that doesn't make a ticking noise
Btw, the ticking one was 1300 Euros (~1100 pounds ?) and the non-ticking one 1700 Euros(~1450 pounds ?)... Plus, the non-ticking has only 27k km (~18k miles) and new tires, fresh service..
So, I'm hoping in about 12 days I'll be the proud new owner of a '99 curvy I'll let you all know

Cheers everyone!

Originally Posted by andreis

Well, can't get a hold of the owner today, but I did get a hold of a new posting for sale, and doing the math, I figured I come to just about the same price with a non-problem bike that's more expensive at first then a problem bike that's cheaper.
Thanks everyone for your input, but I'm gonna go with one that doesn't make a ticking noise
Btw, the ticking one was 1300 Euros (~1100 pounds ?) and the non-ticking one 1700 Euros(~1450 pounds ?)... Plus, the non-ticking has only 27k km (~18k miles) and new tires, fresh service..
So, I'm hoping in about 12 days I'll be the proud new owner of a '99 curvy I'll let you all know

Cheers everyone!

Cool, let us know what you think to it!

Have fun.