Bike noise, creak, click, creaks, clicks, clicking, pinging sound - help

It is for sure. A worn chain eats up sprockets as breakfast.

Press fit BB's are a joke, anything other than dry indoor use and they just start creaking and groaning. Its a very common problem not tied to any one mftr.

Well I have, the chain is Whippermann and I feel it should have lasted longer than this. It is making a right racket now, with every pedal stroke it is constant, think it can only be the chain. Then my headset decided to join it but I've tightened it. There's nothing greater than a silent running bike...the dream

Hoping someone can help. I notice when going uphill it sounds like my brakes are rubbing against the wheel. However if I stop and spin the wheels there is no sound. Anyone know what the problem might be?

Wheels may be flexing as you put side loads on it (getting out of the saddle and leaning the bike). Squeeze parallel pairs of spokes with your thumb and fingers. If your spokes feel at all loose you may need to rebuild. If not, your wheel may just be really flexy. Maybe time to invest in new stuff

The other possibilty is that the hub cones / bearings interface is loose, so the wheel spins well unridden but is shifting a bit on the axle under load.

I feel it should have lasted longer than this.

Have you actually measured it and found it to be worn?

Worn chains aren't noisier than unworn chains.

If there is one thing I have learned from this thread (and personal experience) is that all noise appears to be coming from the drivetrain.

Quite normal, as described above.

Most likely cause is your massive powah: chapeau!

Question for the experts: My beloved Fuji classic track 650c has been making a sound like a stone had, somehow, gotten inside the frame. I've narrowed it down to the noise coming from the front hub. I've had the bike 4 years and use it to get around London, so it's been battered a bit. The wheels were replaced about 2 years ago but the hubs weren't. Can it be repaired or should I just replace it? It's 32h.

Thanks in advance.

Press fit BB's are a joke, anything other than dry indoor use and they just start creaking and groaning. Its a very common problem not tied to any one mftr.

Hmm, no noise from my original BB30 since I bought it (CAAD10) nearly 4 years ago now. I'm reluctant to take it apart in case it starts creaking when I put it back together again...

Hi, thanks for this I'll check tonight. The bike is brand new so hopefully there shouldn't be an issue with the spokes. Yes, I actually took the wheel off for something and it spun fine so maybe it is something with cones.... Thanks for you help.

I don't know whether it's worn or not, but I do know it's making a hell if a racket. Think about it it started after I cleaned in a chain bath and degreaser, and then re-lubed. I wonder if that may be the culprit. I'll find out when I get a new chain

Your money would have been better spent on a chain checker, than a chain bath: one is an essential tool that will save you money and makes life easier, the other is an entirely superfluous tool that will waste your money and turns a two minute job into a twenty minute one.

After you degreased the chain (removing all the lube from where it is needed), did you thoroughly rinse it (to remove the degreaser that will destroy any fresh lube) and dry it (so it doesn't corrode)?

A worn chain is no noisier than one that isn't, and if it wasn't worn before you cleaned it, it won't be worn now.

A dry chain sounds like a bag of spanners, where as a properly lubed chain doesn't.

I've got a ping I cant remedy. Seems like when I hit bumps every so often there is a little ping sound coming out of the seat, seat post it seat tube. Cant figure out which. Seat is held to the post with a two bolt arrangement. seems one bolt it held under higher tension the the other when tightened. Might be this??
I don't wanna die! :

Got a spare chain?

Have you check your quick release skewer as well? grease the spindle? etc.

Ha, ;)

Have you checked your chainringbolts?

Think you got this: I didn't properly rinse the degreaser, but not convinced that has caused the racket, going to replace the chain and see.

Everything checked and tightened and greased

It's your saddle.

Enter your text here...what's wrong with the saddle?

Creaky.

Cool. I can live with that just the rails pinging
was afraid something might fail was all

I was aiming the creaky saddle at jimmy but I'm sure you won't die either.

Also I'm just making shit.

I am having an infrequent (usually only after bumps/rougher surfaces) tapping noise from my carbon look 585. The tone is pretty similar to the tapping noise that you sometimes get after changing gears with the ultegra shifters (or just tapping the shifters themselves).

I'm not used to riding either (a) geared bikes, or (b) carbon frames so I'm a bit at a loss what it could be, and paranoid about carbon failure as it's a second hand frame. Any thoughts what a tapping noise could be? I don't think it would be the carbon falling apart... would it?