When I ease of the accelerator, I get a nasty metallic rattle coming from the left side, now I'm not massively technical but I think that's not good right?

any ideas?

When I ease of the accelerator, I get a nasty metallic rattle coming from the left side, now I'm not massively technical but I think that's not good right?

any ideas?

Before condeming anything I would check the obvious first -

Exhaust crown nut

downpipe to silencer joint

engine mounting and other nuts and bolts

Chain tension

Crankcase bolts!

etc etc

Make sure everything is tight before assuming it's inside the crankcase. Left hand crankcase holds the generator points etc if you take off the gearchange lever and remove the cover you can check the condition of the bearings by seeing if there is any movement in the generator flywheel - although I would expect the bearings to complain when they are under load (accelerating) not decelerating.

DO you get a rattle on tick over?

Keep us posted.

Before condeming anything I would check the obvious first -

Exhaust crown nut

downpipe to silencer joint

engine mounting and other nuts and bolts

Chain tension

Crankcase bolts!

etc etc

Make sure everything is tight before assuming it's inside the crankcase. Left hand crankcase holds the generator points etc if you take off the gearchange lever and remove the cover you can check the condition of the bearings by seeing if there is any movement in the generator flywheel - although I would expect the bearings to complain when they are under load (accelerating) not decelerating.

DO you get a rattle on tick over?

Keep us posted.

Sorry for the massive delay in replying, someone tried to nick the thing so have been replacing the ingnition, now i cant get it even to tick over. all wires bar four are plugged in, i have two red to connect, done. two shades of brown that match, done. then I have one blavk and white, one brown, one black and one blue?

noting at all now.... battery is fine. tested, but wont start... rattle will have to wait