What Have You Fettled Today?

[sevenfourate]

I need another test ride... I will see what happens on that and then explain!

Dont leave us hanging Colin ! I'm not sure we can bear(ing) it any longer.......

 

[ColinJ]

Dont leave us hanging Colin ! I'm not sure we can bear(ing) it any longer.......

Ha ha!

Ok, well... I am waiting for the replacement bearing to arrive so I went for another ride using the spare wheel, and the ticking/clicking came back mid-ride! It was doing my head in!

I looked at the bike last night and think that I know what happened. Coincidence is involved...

The bearing in the original wheel had definitely come loose, got damaged, and was causing some of the original ticking. Swapping wheels had sorted that problem out.

Something happened on yesterday's ride though which made ticking/clicking return!

Wind back a few weeks... The bike's transmission had been getting noisy. I eventually traced that to a badly bent B-screw in the rear derailleur. I had a minor accident last year which bent the mech. I had straightened it as much as possible but didn't want to pull any harder on it for fear of breaking it. It is possible that it was already damaged when donated by my cousin since it came off his mountain bike when he upgraded to a new groupset.

It took a lot of effort to remove the damaged screw. It was badly bent and jammed. In the end I had to break the end off and force the rest out. That damaged the thread in the mech.

After some fiddling about, I bodged a solution - I used a larger self-tapping wood screw! To my suprise, that worked perfectly.

Fast forward to yesterday... Last night I discovered that the bodged B-screw had fallen out mid-ride!

I tried the bike turned upside down on my kitchen floor... Ticking/clicking! I replaced the screw with a bigger one... Nice silent operation!

Hopefully, another ride will confirm that I'd had 2 problems, both causing the same type of noise. If not, I have an expanse of kitchen wall ideal for frustrated head-banging!