Louder than normal lifter noise

I bought my Road King last month. The first week I thought it had a exhaust leak from somewhere in front. A few days later when I was having my 1,000 service I asked the shop if it had a leak. Afterwords they told me they hooked it up to a exhaust pipe to the outdoors. And they told me it had no exhaust leaks. Today I am still hearing that louder than normal ticking sound and I think I have figured it out. Reading reviews online from other Harley riders I found the answer. People like me have noticed this sound from the lifters also and aren't to happy. To me the bike bike runs superb and if it is the lifters making more noise than other Harley's I can live with it. Plus not much I can do now after buying it.

The bike is new so I'm assuming it's under warranty and you've logged your concern. My bike has a noisy valve train and pretty much had it from the get go, it's got 65000 kilometers on it..50 per cent of those miles have been pulling a trailer two up. It runs great..not fast but haven't had a major issue with it. Keep your ear on it to see if it changes. I'm assuming yours has done this from the start.

Thanks guys appreciate the help

Thanks next time I go in I will have them put it in writing

Is ticking valves common on twincams as it is on EVOs? I thought that was why they added the second cam - to make the angle of the lifters more inline with the rockers?

For what it's worth, I have chased ticking sounds in lifters for 12 years on my EVO and what I found to be the single most effective adjustment to quieting the ticking was to set the adjustable pushrods an extra 30 to 50 thousands of an inch into the lifter. In other words the normal adjustment is to set them 100 thousandths, I set them 0.130" to 0.150". I do this only after I am sure that there was nothing else wrong with the rest of the parts, cam, rockers, etc.

I don't know if this would work for Twinkies, but it might be something to try.

Hope when the bike breaks in the tickin goes quieter for you.
That should be at least over 5000 miles.
Do you have a extended warranty ?

Be Glad you never road a PanHead Harley. They made more noises than you could ever imagine.
I'm pretty immune to a lot of noises now.

Thanks I got the extended warranty and 5 year maintenance.

Coool...........

I'd ride her and not worry, HD has you covered.

The 2010 are nice bikes.
Wish I could have one.........

The extended warranty replaced my engine because it developed a noise down low. Was told it was the cam chain adjusters, When they checked closer and found the adjusters looked almost new they had to dig a bit deeper and found the inner cam bearings took a crap and ovaled the holes in the case.
They sent the engine back to the factory for a remanufacture. The replaced the right side engine case and rebuilt the rest with new parts.
The New engine cost me $54 that included sales tax. Still have the original engine munber. The warranty is a good thing.