hearing noises

[toads]

I ventured forth to town today to get a long overdue wof for my bike , and given the fact that it's been an unreliable pig for a few weeks for some as yet undiagnosed fault, I thought I'd leave my ear plugs out, I think is made wierd and dreadful noises pretty much all the way to town, but after an hour of solid riding, I stopped worrying about it, I have decided there's a good reason to wear earplugs apart from ear protection and that's to prevent anxiety attacks, my bike clatters and rattles from every quarter, but passed a wof no probs, I must be just paranoid.

[Mongoose]

I ventured forth to town today to get a long overdue wof for my bike , and given the fact that it's been an unreliable pig for a few weeks for some as yet undiagnosed fault, I thought I'd leave my ear plugs out, I think is made wierd and dreadful noises pretty much all the way to town, but after an hour of solid riding, I stopped worrying about it, I have decided there's a good reason to wear earplugs apart from ear protection and that's to prevent anxiety attacks, my bike clatters and rattles from every quarter, but passed a wof no probs, I must be just paranoid.

Yup, cheap bit of mechanicing that is, ear plugs in, problem solved!

[vifferman]

...and a good reason not to go helmetless.

I HATE noises. Well, some noises.
I could never own a dry-clutch Ducati (partly because I couldn't afford one). The rattling noises would dry me even more insane than I already was. Am.

Some noises are good: the whirr of the disk brakes as you squeeze the lever; the hum of a VFR's geardriven cams; the sound of a piped V4/V2/triple/V5/race-tunedIL4/[insert favourite engine type here]; the sound of 48mm carbs greedily gulping air...

But some sounds jest aint right. I hate the sound of a dry drivechain, a rattly Honda camchain, a leaking exhaust gasket, a slipping VTR clutch (how the hell can a wet clutch squeal?!?), a missed gearshift, a warped brake rotor, or worst of all - a bike sliding down the road, shedding bits of metal and tupperware as it goes....:disapint:

[Hitcher]

I remember well, back in my old Territorial days, the first time I fired my trusty SLR while not wearing ear protection. Shit, what a noise! [I love the smell of cordite in the morning... or, to misquote Homer Simpson: "Mmmmmmm, firepower!"]

[FROSTY:Me]

Funny that --my ears are buggered because I used yto like hearing all the mechanical noises a bike made.

[White trash]

Funny that --my ears are buggered because I used yto like hearing all the mechanical noises a bike made.

That why ya shout like fuck everytime ya ring me......

[Holy Roller]

After riding behind a friend who has a chain driven bike I kept noticing a strange noise and kept checking my bike as to where the noise was coming from. After an hour I realised that it was the bike infront of me making the sound from the chain. Nothing unusual for the owner chain in good order just not used to chain drive noises.

[aff-man]

Same thing only i know the problem. Cam chain needs adjusting which hopefully will get done in the next few weeks (once i get the cash)

[Dr Bob]

I freaked out when I put the windscreen on - all the air noises dissappeared, to be replaced by all the engine noises, and a rattling set of disk pads.