Hi all over there, me bike's going great, except every time I stop the engine there's this kind of worrying klonk coming from around the starter area when the engine stops, and I am wondering if this is normal, because if not it sounds expensive,, anybody got any ideas ? :-cheers,,kenny

What's happening is that when you shut down the engine it continues spinning utill it runs up to a compression stroke, then it will stop and sometimes run backward.

Problem is our start has a one way clutch and as soon as it runs backward it engages the starter causing the klonk as you say.

Early '86 '88's have a problem that they donot have a torque limiter on this gear and can break if enough force is applied.  There is a patch though, a circuit that will energize the decomp solenoid on shutdown.

My '95 does that occasionly too. Spins backwards. You get used to it I guess.