Clattery noise - crap rider or the bike?

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Hi, bit of an amateur at this whole thing so hopefully someone can set me straight.

I picked up a CB500 twin the other day (first bike), as far as I can tell it's a pretty decent bike. The motor fires, purrs and pulls, and doesn't smoke at all. If I let the revs drop though in gear it starts to sound very clattery, like a bag of spanners or a old cement mixer.

I don't know, maybe I'm just doing it wrong and I just need to stop riding it like a pillock and feed it some revs?

What's happy revs for a bike? should I not be letting it drop down to 2500-3000?

[arry]

Hard to say without actually hearing it because it could be extreme or just normal - but with that said, parallel twins do tend to get lumpy and awful sounding at low RPM so it wouldn't be a total shocker if it was just fine and perfectly normal.

[Itchy]

It's a Honda their clutches rattle.

It is exacerbated at low revs. I ignored this happily for years on my Hondas.

Higher idle revs makes it go away.
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Sure it isn't the chain flapping around?. I know mine seems to be finicky that you're in the right gear (as in not too high) for example at a junction.
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[FlightRisk]

I checked the chain tension, it seems about what it should be.

Hopefully it is just a Honda thing. I'll give it more revs / learn to change down. I'm used to driving a diesel cage.

Ta!

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