I was attempting to leave a meeting last Monday afternoon & when i went to start the bike it idled for about 30 seconds & then cut out.  It took a few attempts to get it started again & while i was having to hold the throttle open at least it was running & at least it was almost entirely downhill to my house.  But … while it ran like crap with the choke on there was an awful noise coming from the left side of the engine.  A nice high pitched clanging noise to be a bit more precise.

So what do i do?  I get the bike home with this loud noise coming from the engine & wondering what to do exactly.  A few googled & y0utube searches later & I’m thinking it could be a bad carb/lost cyclinder.  Next steps a) take the carbs off, b) take the ignition coils off, c) take the camshaft cover off, d) take the camshafts out, e) take the cylinder head section out, f), start posting pics about the condition of the bike & what the heck i’m going to do now.