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Today I took a short trip over to the tag agent to get my tag for the bike (holy crap! but that's a different story).
Anyway, when I was riding, I noticed a sound I'd never heard before. Could be I just didn't pay attention. Bike is only 5 weeks old, with 1400 miles, so I'm still learning it's idiosyncrasies. When I would pull in the clutch lever all the way to make a shift, there was a fairly loud noise that sounded like two flat pieces of metal slapping against each other.
Is this normal? Bike just had it's 1,000 mile service a week ago.
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