Cam Chain annoyance!!!!!

[spamanglenn]

I,ll officially spill the beans.Andys cam chain was stretched no debate.I didn,t hear hear his bike.However andy and myself have metal tank pads instead of the plastic ones.These are the only busas i know of with these.These sit on the frame and make a hell of a racket that you can hear with ear plugs on inside a helmet around the 4-5000 rev mark.My dad and i discovered this on my bike by pushing the tank left to right which altered the sound.As col from 10/10ths mentioned this noise was on both sides of the bike.This problem was mentioned to andys workshop and wear marks were discovered on the frame from the tank pads whilst the bike was apart.To their credit this was told in confidence to them and they still mentioned it to andy as knowing the cam chain was f****d their conscience was clear.A bit of double sided tape later and the noise was gone.Perhaps we could of told them after the bike was fixed and still rattling to make them sweat but there good guys and the linking of the 2 issues just hit me one day so no timing of the answer was deliberate.Unfortunately this problem did expose a few things people can make their own judgements on.I hope myself to learn from all this.From a handyman/engineering background i always try to look for the simple solutions first and work towards the dearer ones second,not the other way round. Glenn the Spa Man<i></i>