Got my bike back today. 4 days before departing to Mongolia :-)
The bike sounds good now - after a total engine rebuild.
They wore not 100% sure of what caused the noise, but they think it was a piece of the electric starter.
They found three problems:
- cam chain worn (strange since the bike has only 13000km)
- cam (valve?) bearings (wrong model installed - strange)
- some part of the electric starter (made marks in the hub)
A previous owner put a G1 cam on the bike a few years ago and removed the auto-decomp at the time (because the auto-decomp broke for some reason). The mecanic thought that the strain on the part when starting with the electric starter (and not using the manual dekomp properly?) was the reason for the e-starter to make the noise.
In the future I'll just use the kickstart :-)
Sorry for the bad spelling and poor description, but time is short. If anyone whants to know more let me know.
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