Mine does number 3 if I try to set off with any briskness but does not rattle. I would think it's going to be a worn clutch basket grabbing the odd plate here and there, can be checked by removing the clutch plate pack and looking at the arms that hold them in place.tony.mon wrote:There's only three reasons to pull the clutch on a Storm:
1- it slips under power (but try using semi-synth instead of fully-synth oil)
2- the clutch basket fingers have notches worn in them, making clutch operation jerky at the lever- won't feed out smoothly at all times, or
3- clutch locks up under full-power hard getaways, with a horrible graunching sound, and almost certainly a huge unintentional wheelie.
If it's 3, then good luck with a cure, some bikes do it and some don't.
But swapping all the clutch components, bearings, plates, etc, won't cure it, in my experience. I only got mine fixed when I changed to another engine, which didn't do it at all.
But I personally suspect play in the big bearing behind the clutch, which is an engine-out and crankcases split job.
Reason being that when I first changed my engine it was because that bearing completely self-destructed, but to be fair I thrash it on the drag strip sometimes so not really normal usage.
Pretty much all Honda clutches rattle, live with it and be glad you haven't got a dry-clutch Ducati!
More likely this if you like doing wheelies
