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I'm a little worried, and prepared for the worst.

I have a noise, a loud TOCK. Not a tick, not a bang, a TOCK ;) . This TOCK is very intermittent, it's almost non-existant it happens so infrequently, but it's there. I've been "listening" with a piece of pipe but can't track it down, again because it's so rare. It took me probably a good 30-45 minutes of running the engine at different times to be able to record the noise so that I can get some opinions. Generally, I hear it at idle but it could be it just hasn't occurred yet at higher rpm's or in gear (on a stand). When it does happen, there is absolutely no lag to the engine, no drop in rpm's, but it does slightly shake the bike. Not a lot, but I can feel it on the frame.

In this instance, the bike had been running for a about 2 minutes, bike was warmed up and I had just closed the choke.

The noise happens at the 20-21 second mark.

Have a listen please and don't hold back. I need things to look at.

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