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

angle your foot to the right in your SPD

spd's take ages and ages to wear down, the pedals i mean. find someone ele with newer cleats and make them ride it to see if new cleats will sort it. make sure the cleats are tight in your shoe. lightly lube the moving parts of the pedal with oil and while you are there regrease the pedals. or just turn your ipod up.

Clicks and creaks checklist

I've had some clicking (once every RPM on each side of the bike) in my crank/BB area for a month or two now. It happens when there's any real force being put through the cranks and happens when they're at their 3 o'clock position.

I started by replacing the chainring bolts with nice new stainless steel ones, applying grease and fitting them. The clicking didn't stop...
I've tried numerous pedals, chains, sprockets and yesterday replaced the old BB with another new UN54 (metal LH BB cup). This has stopped the clicking in the RH side, but it still remains on the left.

Can anyone suggest anything else I can try? Are the taper/s on my cranks probably fubar?

Officially fucked off with sq taper. I might see if I can find a outboard bearing BB setup...

is the chainline's nice and straight?

could be anything, but you've already eliminated most of it.
Tried greasing and replacing the cranks and tightening them down rock solid ?

greased the axle and pedal threads?

Could the chainring be slightly off?

Give it a really good clean?

is the chainline's nice and straight?
Yep
could be anything, but you've already eliminated most of it.
Tried greasing and replacing the cranks and tightening them down rock solid ?

greased the axle and pedal threads?

You know what, this could be it...I've been hesitant in greasing BB spindles Every time I've tried to remove a set of cranks fitted a greased spindle, they've been an absolute bitch of a job to get off. I'm going to remove them, grease up the spindle and fit 'em again

Will let you know how it goes tomorrow...

buy a BB which is 6mm shorter.

have you checked you saddle clamp
i had a weird clicking noise yesterday which seamed to be coming from the drive side until i hit a pothole while looking looking down at the drive side and my saddle tilted back a notch, tightened it up and it turned out to be the problem

Yeah I've had that too - saddle bolts creaking when pedaling hard.

I've checked the clicks and creaks checklist, but this creak is persisting and quite loud.

I've got a creak coming from my handlebars or quill when I pull on my handlebars - so particularly when I'm going uphill or accelerating hard. I've tried to tighten the handlebar clamp and the quill itself but cannot move either even slightly. Does anyone know what sort of things might be causing this? Do I need to remove and grease the quill or something?

Yes.

clunk when i push down on my right pedal, towards bottom of pedal stroke, noticed when climbing hill to brockley.
bottom bracket?
have done the sheldon test: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/creaks.html
Turn the cranks so that the left crank is alongside the seat tube, wrap both hands around the crank and seat tube and squeeze the crank hard toward the seat tube. Then turn the cranks so that the right crank is alongside the seat tube and repeat this. Listen for a creak/click.

not noticed anything obvious there. i don't think i put awesome power down, daft question: do the retaining cups loosen? it's one of these sugino jobs:
http://outspokencycles.co.uk/bottom-brackets/sugino-103mm-bottom-bracket.html

which i thought were fit and forget.

sounds like the BB but first check either of cranks isn't hitting the chainstays. might just be the BB wasn't tight enough in the first place, so remove the BB, regrease threads and refit super tight.

something i came across the other day was a chainring that was installed slightly asymetrically on the spider along with the the chain being very tight. each pedal rotation caused the chain to tighten too much and pull the crank back hard, causing the BB to clunk. loooooooooong.

this will be the second time of removing, regreasing, refitting....

had something similar when bb cups threads wore out, otherwise is it the pedal? possibly cross threaded onto the cranks?

if you're in brockley, bring it down to the cycle team in brockley cross business center, we'll be able to sort it out for a very small number of quids

Since getting my Langster I've noticed that its always had a clicking sound coming from the front end. Don't really notice it til at speed but then it gets really annoying. I don't think it's in the wheel bearings as it doesn't seem to speed up or slow down when the bike does, just a steady clicking at the same pace. I've checked everything over and can't see anything that would be making this noise - everything seems to be tight. The only thing that moves around is the presta valve stem as it doesn't have a nut to tighten it against the rim, but I taped it down and doesn't seem to make any difference. Can't see any cracks in the frame or fork. The bike is completely stock.

Any ideas? Starting to get really annoyed with it.

is it defo front end? clicks and rattles can be deceptive. best way is by process of elimination.
is it linked to the drivetrain?
does it occur under pressure (ie stem or other part creaking under power / weight)?

clicking getting more noticeable at speed sounds like it could be a cable end catching on wheel.

Check your pedals and throw away the valve caps.

Hello,

You might find this useful http://www.lfgss.com/thread27637.html

No need to throw away valve caps. If they were loose, they would shed themselves. Check the little nuts holding the valve stems to the rims (assuming presta) are done properly?