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I've had a nasty creaking noise for a while, I thought it was maybe my pedals or maybe my BB, but today it was so bad that I was embarrassed to be seen (heard) riding in public, so I rushed back home (in shame) to have a tinker. Tried standing on the cranks (not pedals) and the creaking was still creaking, so it wasn't the pedals (old though they are). Took the BB out (standard Shimano type, nothing special), all looked fine, then tried putting it back in, and as I screwed it in - well, it just kept turning. The threads on the BB look fine, and the threads in the BB frame look reasonably fine, so... Not sure which bit's gone wrong. Anyhow, I put it all back together and the creaking's gone, so it's fine for the moment but something is bad, and my guess is it's the BB shell on the frame. Either that or there's a teeny crack in the frame somewhere, I dunno... I don't really want to spend big $$ fixing it because the frame only cost me little $$, I'd rather save the cash till the day I find a new frame i like...
I'm not looking for advice here, I'm just rambling :)