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I think you will find it hard in modern traffic for an old 2 smoke like the bantam and franny B (same villiers engine) I think you would be better off with a non brit bike with a bit of pep. then you can get your self out of trouble easier.

Ayup Noise, you missed out Cable Ties... A piece of tinfoil, Gaffa Tape and cable ties fixed our motorhome exhaust when the down pipe split from the silencer and was still fine 400 miles later when we got home and had it welded. Toutsuite, not sure if you have any but ACF50 is also good to spray into electrics and switches.

Yer id go for the WD40 route first toute. if not just open up the button holder and see what the wires/contacts look like and treat accordingly. If you said it was your starter button playing up i have one of them in the shed you could of had

Hi Rod, in that case the motor needs the carbs adjusting .. balance & mixture... I guess the noise is only there without the bike under load (tick over in N) when the bike is running it's fine ? try the following :- allow the engine to warm up and idle then switch the lights on ... if the idle alters you have a defo carb problem (balance/mix). If the idle does alter and the knock remains that will pin point the problem to mixture, to a degree I have added this coment to loads of posts and from the replies no one thinks this is true, but as a chalenge to any one bring me a XJ550/600/YX600/XJ650/750/900 with the knock at idle problem & I'll fix it for free ! Regards Jim