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finally as the torque wrench arrived yesterday I got round to doing the cranks
frustratingly my local homebase had no fine emery paper so used a dremmel polishing head to clean some of the aluminium oxide out of the crank splines. wiped bb tapers and cranks with meths and then copperslipped the splines. crank applied to 16Nm as per manufacturers instruction
left for an hour (actually being a sad bastard i decided to do every bolt on the bike to correct torque)
took bike out for spin, seems to be much much quieter, had to push really hard on cranks to get a lot of creaking (am assuming that the ti frame will always sing to me a little bit)
just to check put the torque wrench on the bolts and they had not moved at all
am still concerned that 16Nm is v low but will see how it goes