roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
clicking driving me insane!!!!!
- Thread starter rugbyluke
- Start date
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threefingerjoe
Über Member
- Location
- St. Louis, MO, USA
Bike noises can be so hard to diagnose! I once had a clicking sound that turned out to be a shoelace aglet striking the crank! Now, I have a permanent clicking sound....it's my KNEE! ;-)
I had a light rattle from the front of my new bike. Had it built up by my bike fit guy and he is always spot on. Was fairly light and coming from the front and checked everything from cables tapping the frame, valves loose in wheel cut out, headset play back and forth, wheel tension, etc.
Turns out that there is a carbon spacer that sits inside the tube and goes around the headset where the headset cap screws in. I assume that it's to keep the shape if the tube or even to keep it all central once tightened. Headset itself was solid as expected. Tiny bit if carbon paste applied and now it's silent!
Amazing how many small pieces link together to create random noises. This time the sound was in the right area, but not the component itself as such. Good fun hunting though.
Turns out that there is a carbon spacer that sits inside the tube and goes around the headset where the headset cap screws in. I assume that it's to keep the shape if the tube or even to keep it all central once tightened. Headset itself was solid as expected. Tiny bit if carbon paste applied and now it's silent!
Amazing how many small pieces link together to create random noises. This time the sound was in the right area, but not the component itself as such. Good fun hunting though.
eck
Über Member
- Location
- Kirriemuir Vélo HQ
Be careful with that one. I recently had what sounds like a similar click. I checked all the usual suspects as above. The LH crank (square taper) seemed a bit loose so I gave the bolt a bit more welly... (you can see where this is going, can't you?).... click still there.... tighten again... clickety click.... and again . You guessed, I had overtightened the crank so much it had cracked at one corner of the square hole.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Had an annoying squeak yesterday - traced to cleat on LH pedal. Took bolts out, greased threads. Squeak gone.
Easytigers
Guru
Also have annoying click...can't track it down either!
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Be careful with that one. I recently had what sounds like a similar click. I checked all the usual suspects as above. The LH crank (square taper) seemed a bit loose so I gave the bolt a bit more welly... (you can see where this is going, can't you?).... click still there.... tighten again... clickety click.... and again . You guessed, I had overtightened the crank so much it had cracked at one corner of the square hole.
The torque wrench thread is thataway.....>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
