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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fred W" data-source="post: 913880" data-attributes="member: 3828">That noise is your bike telling you to downshift.  It wants you to know that it is happier at 4k rpm.   <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> No seriously, mine might do that too, but I generally would not be in 5th gear cruising at 50 mph.  3rd maybe, but probably 4th if just lolly gagging along.  Now, that said, I do get a little gear whine cruising along lightly loaded in 4th gear.  When I first got the bike I asked the question and other folks said they did too.  I've never paid any attention to it since.It sounds like maybe yours is a similar thing?  Do you hear it, or feel it, or both?</blockquote>