high pitch tapping sound R cyl. & light backfiring -

[Lannis]

To the original poster, YouTube.com has many videos under "how to pick up a heavy motorcycle". There are standard techniques demonstrated in the videos that you may find useful.

There ARE a lot of videos out there on "picking up a dropped motorcycle". As I went through them, I was looking for one that:

1) Was a tall heavy motorcycle like a Stelvio and not a low-rider cruiser just sort of rolled onto its crash bars or was not a DR350 that weighed half what a Stelvio weighs.

2) Was a demo on a bike that had gone OVER like they do, not just sort of resting on the bags and handgrip, but with the wheels pointing up in the air at about a 30 degree angle.

3) Was in a roadway, probably a busy intersection, with a bunch of cars held up behind, blowing their horns, the rider is mad and frustrated at himself for dropping it, the adrenalin is rushing, and you can't remember a thing about how you're SUPPOSED to pick up the bike rather than just throw your back out trying to brute-force it up.

Now THAT'S a challenge! However, if you check out enough of the videos, you'll find enough to get you through 1) and 2). For 3), you're just going to have to have it happen to you!

Thanks for the heads-up. Next time my sons are over here, we're going to lay the Stelvio over on a blanket and try it .....

Lannis

 

[Bill Hagan]

I will only comment on the "resurrection" aspects of this post, as I am as clueless as a virgin in a brothel about the technical issues.

So, my own technique for doing this has evolved over time, with "time" including five -- yes, FIVE! -- hernia-repair surgeries. Yes, I am a slow, but ernest, learner.

So ... when this occurred about five years ago ...

... on Eggleston Road in SW Virginia (very near BFE), I decided not to be a hero. Instead, I flagged down (a very comely lass of a) mail-carrier. When I saw she was inexplicably dressed as for a meal that evening at Sardi's, I just asked her if she knew someone to call. She said -- and I swear I am not making this up -- "We can do this," and hopped down into that ditch to help me.

That didn't last long as she soon discovered how heavy that beast is. But, undeterred, she jumped out again and onto the road and stood there 'til two local bubbas in a Ford pickup -- complete, of course, with the obligatory window decal of a Ford kid urinating (my sweet and indulgent wife hates the "p" word, so I play along ) on a Chevy -- came by.

Virtually ordered out of their truck, the big strapping fellows took about four seconds to get the Norge upright. Miss USPS thanked them, as did I ... with an Alexander Hamilton. I'll never get myself to say Harriet Tubman.

So, have at it if you will (and can) lift your motorcycle. I prefer my method.

Best wishes to the OP and other posters for a solution to the real concerns here.

Bill

P.S. If you wondered how I managed to get myself into that pickle, it was stopping to take a photo. Pulled off on to the (too) tiny shoulder and discovered in the time it takes to say "Oh, s...!" (anther word Kathi frowns upon, and I try to suppress my Army career's frequent use of such for her ] the front wheel pivoted on the unseen mud and down I and it went. Amazingly, the Norge sustained almost zero damage as the right side was cushioned by grass and open ditch.

 

[Lannis]

Bill -

Good experience ... for us! Thanks for the heads up. Read it with Fay and she agreed that the lass could probably have had the boys in the truck lowing and eating grass like a cow in 5 minutes, much less picking up a motorcycle.

I don't think I want any picture enough to pull onto that steep narrow muddy shoulder with a loaded sport-tourer! I look for nice flat paved places these days - even gravel makes me nervous sometimes ....

Lannis

 

[Vagrant]

problem is that the videos are of Harleys and Gold wings. big heavy beasts YES! But they have low centers of gravity. the Stelvio is way too top heavy compared to them and much harder to lift up.
And yes I have owned all three bikes.

 

[scott_m]

problem is that the videos are of Harleys and Gold wings. big heavy beasts YES! But they have low centers of gravity. the Stelvio is way too top heavy compared to them and much harder to lift up.
And yes I have owned all three bikes.

BMW GS Adventure no bags Men videos






BMW GS Adventure no bags Women videos






Moto Guzzi Stelvio 1200 NTX no bags video

 

[Nicolai]

Thank you all yet again. I did ride into the dawn/downpour of NH towards Montana and after five days and 2000miles decided that:
1) the tappet sound will remain between 2000-3500 and i shall live!
2) there s no way to be an open face helmet rider and a vegetarian in the American North ... too damned many bugs!
3) if you are really headed for the sticks and not Terminator or Rocky, carry 50' of straps and a ratchet and FALL ONLY on trails with trees (been there and done that, and it works!)
4) over the days, the ass sores that began around mile 300 only get WoRSE (and I mean worse, sheepskin and neosporin/bike panties, etc... all proved useless)
5) when you reach Winnipeg and its 96F and you cant see through the bugs on your visor or glasses, and cant even sit in a bar, forget pygmi ponies and Montana... the wise thing is to turn back and hope to return after only another five days of (monotonous) Hell (OK maybe Im a whimp - but this was just nearly as painful as the cancer surgery i am trying to get over with this bike, whence the final question here...)
6) any short bodied Stelvio rider tried a Corbin seat or can give me direct experience with alternatives?

Ride safe, far, and FUN! and always, grazie a tutti.

N

 

[abbienormal]

any short bodied Stelvio rider tried a Corbin seat or can give me direct experience with alternatives?

No experience on a Stelvio but on My BMW R1200GS it helped immensely. I had the lowered model and the stock seat was the worst I had ever sat on.
Nice bridge shot.

 

[Nicolai]

Regarding videos of bikes being righted, thanks BUT
1. With a quarter tank of gas on a clean asphalt or concrete surface, I can manage it. But NOT with 8 gallons in the tank

2. much less on a wet and rocky gulley...I was just hoping there was some technique. In my case, my heels dug into the wet ground so that I ended up physically lower than the bike - thats when I pulled out the straps and ratchet.

Thanks all the same!

 

[motowfo]

Back to the Tapping sound... Recently my 09 Stelvio wanted to only idle on one cylinder after warm up (an issue I'm still struggling with)... I did valve adjustment, even pulled injectors to see fuel was flowing through them (that was a DUH thing to do because once you give her a little throttle everything else seems to smooth out, definitely not fuel)... but, to the point.

I kept hearing a loud tapping sound that I THOUGHT was coming from the cylinder. Ultimately, I narrowed down the sound to the transmission at low speed making a tapping sound that I could not hear with the engine at operating speed.

Are you sure that the sound is from the cylinder?

 

[stelvio1962]

hello Nicolai. hope you are well, I believe to have the same problem you had..did you fix it ? what was the problem ? thanks so much to let me know