The story of my life lately:
1. Click on some pedal strokes but not all—insufficiently greased pedal.
2. Click on hard efforts only—dirty chain. Clean and lube and it goes away.
3. Creaking sound started when pedaling uphill on bailout gear with 40 pounds
of child and gear but progresses to
I had a new Mountain Bike that had a weird click and it was the back wheel
was loose on the bearings.
I have taken my whole drive train apart to find to chase a creak that
turned out to be the pedal. Pedals are now the first place I look.
I have heard of seat posts creaking.
I can't stand
Water may have got in there and temporarily acted as a lubricant. Back in
the days when I wore clipless Look/Shimano road cleats, the mid-ride
temporary fix for a squeaky cleat was to squirt some water at it from the
water bottle.
On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 6:18:02 PM UTC-4, aeroperf wrote:
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70nm for the bb cups, that is. More like 32nm (with grease) for the crank
bolts. A good lesson in following manuf torque and process recs when
conflicting info exists online.
On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 5:04:51 PM UTC-7, Fryfam wrote:
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> Creaky Campy Record cranks... until I learned that
Creaky Campy Record cranks... until I learned that square taper campy bb
spindles prefer dry assembly (or with the smallest amount of grease) and a
recommended torque of 70nm!!! Haven't had any creaky issues since (500
miles + and still going strong)
On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 1:31:12 PM
Had a once-per-pedal-revolution click that went away for a few days every
time I washed the bike.
I swapped chains, pulled off the cranks, checked the bottom bracket and
shell, swapped seats…
It turned out to be a bad pedal. I never did find out what that had to do
with washing the bike.
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Creaks, usually on the downward pedal stroke of my stronger right leg:
usually the saddle (stand up to test), worst case (twice now) cracked drop
out. It's odd, but when you hear a noise timed to pedal cadence, the ear
points to the pedals, crank, bb regardless of where it's actually coming
Oh boy this is very slippery slope, but it's Fun Friday so what the
hey. It seems to me such noises are a form of self-play a who-dunnit,
a peek-a-boo-where-are-you game. You know ... like a living *Scoobie Doo
Where Are You* Play ! Where no matter what. all is forever well, the
The weirdest and hardest to isolate ticking I ever fixed was the clamp
sleeve on a pair of Bosco bars. Even with a clean, tight stem interface,
there'd be a tick tick tick as I weighted and unweighted the bars. Only
solved that one by dribbling a little blue Loctite around the sleeve's ends
