I bought a Storm about a month ago and have been reading this great forum more and more everyday. So much so that I am now beginning to get scared on the number of posts about CCT failures - I know this is a well visited topic but there's nearly 11,000 miles on the clock... should I be concerned about those buggers??? I hate going for spin and in the back on your head thinking 'if this fails...'...
Its just like Russian roulette some last for years some go on the way home from the showroom. Del does modified ones and there are manual ones, both should give a bit more piece of mind than std ones.
changed mine at 18,000 miles,
heard a ticking, tinkling sound so had em changed. Its an easy sound to hear...........but only a problem if you ignore it. same as on many hondas just that we talk about it more. Don't worry too much
Hi pmcq,
Mine went at about 14000m, distinct rattling from front cylinder, diagnosed and fixed by John Harris motorcycles in Crowborough, E. Sussex. Apparently the front is more likely to fail due to lubrication design..... Don't know how true that is, you'll soon hear it though.
t00lkit wrote:Please tell me, what is the noise you should listen for, to warn that the CCT is/are on the way out?
I sometimes get a nosie around 3-4k revs like 'shaking a bag of the old milk bottle tops' (a tinkling sound). Is this it or sumat else?
I've found the noise is deeper than I would call "tinkling". You can actually tell it's the chain slapping around. It's an uneven ticking. I reckon if you hear it you'll know what it is straight away. I know squat about bike bits & picked it immediately.
Keep an ear out for it, but try not to succumb to the paranoia this topic seems to evoke.
If you ate yourself would you become twice as big or simply disappear?
Tell me about it ¬!!!!!
Mine just went. All of a sudden too !!!!
Seems theres no pattern to the frequency when these suckers go, just whenever they feel like it !
Sad engineering !!!
