640 Starter issue?

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Sep 16, 2015
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Location
Ballito
Bike
KTM 640 Adventure
Went to start my bike this morning to be greeted with a grating metal sound when pressing the ignition. Rode the bike yesterday without any hint of an issue. To check start-up I kick-started the bike with no issues so my only assumption is that the starter motoring is playing up (starter clutch not engaging)? That said my mechanical knowledge is most definitely sub-par so advice from the mech-heads would be much appreciated.

Just to note: the battery is pretty much brand new so I cant suspect any foul-play there - even if it were drained surely it wouldn't make such a grinding/grating noise.

P.S I filmed it for reference sake, so please check out the below link to view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm_0EXiw7Ao

Thoughts?
 
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