Hi all,
Had a look around and can’t seem to see if this is something common with VFR1200’s.
As I’ve just bought the bike, and it’s my first ‘big bike’, I have no reference points or experience.
Long story short, the bike is amazing, however I’ve noticed if I give it a lot of throttle (up towards 8k) and then begin to slow down, the bike appears to knock and sounds generally unhappy. This then clears and goes away after a few seconds. I’m almost certain the noise is coming from the front of the bike. If I didn’t know any better I’d describe it as sounding like hard plastic been crumpled.
The noise has on one occasion continued even once the bike is stopped with clutch engaged, but quickly subsided.
Its difficult to explain the noise due to helmet etc, but I’d describe it as a quite loud knocking.
Really just looking to hear is this is normal for these bikes. Is it just the radiator fans kicking in and because of the helmet and ambient noise it sounds weird??
cheers