Starter hung up?

baadawg Posted 2010-11-14 7:56 PM (#73478) Subject: Starter hung up? Tourer Posts: 499 Chattanooga, TN Several times lately within a few minutes of starting up my bike from a cold start, I'm getting a loud metal on metal clunk. It's different from the sound you get when going into gear from neutral. It tends to happen when rolling down the road slowly with the clutch in, not goosing it or anything and never more than once per start up. Scared the hell outta me the first few times. Thought something had broke inside the engine. Recently it occurred to me that it could be the starter disengaging, a bit too late of course. Anyone else have this happen on a 106 ci VV?  johnnyvision Posted 2010-11-15 1:37 PM (#73546 - in reply to #73478) Subject: Re: Starter hung up? Visionary Posts: 4278 You don't say what year your bike is but I would head to the dealer or pull the starter and find a auto electric repair shop and have them do a check on your starter. Maybe your bat is getting bad. As I recall a low bat will not have enough juice to bring the starter drive return. Maybe even a lose cable. Be careful that what ever it is doesn't do more harm.