I believe the situation is this, based on information I have: the steel bar fit in both of her stems just fine, and is ever-so-slightly bigger in diameter than her new alu Bosco, a phenomenon I also discovered whilst owning both bars. They're both nominally 25.4, but one is more and one less.
What happened was Leah aka Bicycle Belle aka Lone Wolf Leah popped her new/smaller bar in that stem and it slightly ovalized around its new smaller host, creating a gap somewhere which the bar is responding to by ticking or creaking as the two metals try to move around in that nearly invisible gap. I've certainly seen this ovalizing before, but never had a noise problem with it. For the moment the T9 seems to have filled that space and the noise is gone. Yay! Someone asked about the steel vs. aluminum Bosco. Her alu version is 52cm vs. the steel 55. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3cf8878b-f6c3-4e3c-be6c-6b8600ac5775o%40googlegroups.com.
