mine creaked as well until I greased the bolts and the bar clamp interface. when it first started, i dripped a tiny bit of tri-flo under the bar/stem interface and that stopped it immediately. Then when i had time, I took it all apart and greased as above and the creak has not come back.
On Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 8:34:38 AM UTC-7 brettjc...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the thoughts, folks. I'll use a torque wrench next time and > look for a suitable replacement in the meantime. > > Brett > > On Monday, July 19, 2021 at 10:09:25 AM UTC-7 velomann wrote: > >> I've got the longest faceplate stem (135) holding Bosco bars on my Sam >> and while I haven't experienced any slipping, it does creak. Had me >> perplexed for awhile because it only creaks when I'm holding the grips (max >> torque on the stem) I ride a lot on the center of the bar near the stem >> (wrapped) and sometimes on the bends in front of the flat grip area. No >> creak. But out on the grips it creaks. I eliminated headset, brake lever >> connection to bar, everything else. I removed the faceplate, re-lubed the >> bolts, even lubed the stem/bar interface. It still creaks. >> >> >> >> Mike "maybe it's a Portland thing?" M >> >> >> >> On Sunday, July 18, 2021 at 9:35:22 PM UTC-7 brettjc...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> I recently bought a tosco to use with a faceplater stem because the >>> losco I was trying out didn't agree with me. I like the wider, more flared >>> tosco a lot. Anyway, In a test ride of the new setup, the bar was >>> slipping. I torqued the bolts down, probably too much, because I noticed >>> in doing so that the faceplate now seems to be bent. In removing the >>> faceplate, one of the bolts sheeted off and is stuck in the stem. >>> >>> I can get the bolt out, but I'm not sure what to do with the bent >>> faceplate. Anyone else have this issue? Anyone know if Riv has >>> replacements? >>> >>> For what it's worth, I bought the 31.8 bar and stem because I was >>> worried about slippage. I'm a big guy and that's lots of leverage, but >>> honestly I expected better from Nitto. >>> >>> I replaced the faceplater with a slightly shorter 2 bolt removable >>> faceplate stem from Velo Orange, which has larger diameter bolts to attach >>> the faceplate, and didn't experience any slipping. However, the VO stem us >>> a little shorter than I'd like, and I really hate to think I'm just out a >>> nice looking stem because of the bent faceplate. >>> >>> Brett in PDX >>> >> -- 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/fff0d45f-1cd0-4053-9a43-07873df795f6n%40googlegroups.com.
