Top End making sounds of wear ticking and dinging.

[traildogsX5]

I have 11,000 miles on Big Blue and the top end was quite when I left for a 1660 mile trip to the Big Bend and back. West of San Antonio the speed limits are 75 mph to 80 mph and in the desert the temperatures were in the 90's and 100's. Out in West Texas it is 50 miles just to go around the block so the Tenere was ridden hard for long periods of time in the heat and fighting head and side headwinds. On the way back on about 60 miles of Interstate 10 at 85 plus mph (GPS) I could hear the top end over the wind noise and my ear plugs. I pulled off to check the oil level and it was okay. I have taken another short 310 mile trip on it and it starts easy and still has the same power just wanted to know is this normal for the Tenere after it gets some miles on it to make this noise? I have heard the same rattling noise in other motorcycle engines and car/truck engines after they have gotten a few miles on them. I am about to take a 3000 mile round trip to Colorado and ride the Rocky Mountains. I want to know if it is okay to ride it or have it worked on.

Thanks

 

[GrahamD]

I have 11,000 miles on Big Blue and the top end was quite when I left for a 1660 mile trip to the Big Bend and back. West of San Antonio the speed limits are 75 mph to 80 mph and in the desert the temperatures were in the 90's and 100's. Out in West Texas it is 50 miles just to go around the block so the Tenere was ridden hard for long periods of time in the heat and fighting head and side headwinds. On the way back on about 60 miles of Interstate 10 at 85 plus mph (GPS) I could hear the top end over the wind noise and my ear plugs. I pulled off to check the oil level and it was okay. I have taken another short 310 mile trip on it and it starts easy and still has the same power just wanted to know is this normal for the Tenere after it gets some miles on it to make this noise? I have heard the same rattling noise in other motorcycle engines and car/truck engines after they have gotten a few miles on them. I am about to take a 3000 mile round trip to Colorado and ride the Rocky Mountains. I want to know if it is okay to ride it or have it worked on.

Thanks

Nothing you have described there is going to give the bike much stress.

Change the oil. See if it makes a difference, but it's really hard to tell if your rattling noise is different to my rattling noise.

It's a dry sump motor and has rattly noises.

If you want to know if it's normal you'll have to have someone who knows them have a listen.

 

[traildogsX5]

Thanks it is what I thought it would was, Normal.

 

[spasm]

mine makes some horrible noises, ticking, whirirng, knocking, i'll let it worry me when the bike stops running. have the valves checked not long ago and they were perfect, done all the regular oil/filter changes. plus drive shaft oil. 28k on the clock.
when i use premium fuel she defo sounds smoother. dont think these girls like shit fuel

 

[squarebore]

Mine sounds like a bucket of bolts as well. My yz450f also sounds like this so I assumed it was a Yamaha thing. Lucky I wear eat plugs!

 

[GrahamD]

My yz450f also sounds like this so I assumed it was a Yamaha thing. Lucky I wear eat plugs!

That's a "dry" sump motor as well from memory. I think it's a "dry" sump thing.

 

[coastie]

Mine makes all sorts of noises, but on the freeway at a steady RPM, is where it is quietest! She just purrs along, with the steady hum of the transmission/final drive.


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[autoteach]

cam chain tensioner??

 

[traildogsX5]

Thanks guys.

 

[Big Blu]

Have you checked the oil level?
When ridden hard for long period my S10 uses a little oil and seems a bit noisier when the oil level is at the bottom of the sight glass.

Paul

 

[traildogsX5]

It did use some oil on the trip but I added oil it took about a quarter of a quart. Thanks for reminding me I need to put a quart oil oil in my saddle bag for this trip to Colorado which will be twice as long.

 

[Rasher]

I zipped a mile or so down the road today without earplugs and mine started making these odd noises, I am sure re-fitting earplugs will solve it.

If anyone really wants to know how noisy engines are then go and stand by a bike on a dyno, they all sound pretty horrible when you get to hear them clearly.

 

[Dmcleane]

I still have my Honda ST1100, and they're known to be a quiet, smooth running V-4. But listen to the audio from my video camera mounted behind the windscreen, out of the wind, and you'll hear a terrible top end rattling. It really concerned me at first. The next 30,000 miles I just kinda forgot about it.

 

[mhoy]

Amsoil 20-50 beautifull performance from me quiet and smooth, 11,000 miles.

 

[avc8130]

Amsoil 20-50 beautifull performance from me quiet and smooth, 11,000 miles.

11k miles, same oil?

ac

 

[Bigbore4]

@AC
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