Bent chainring or cranks?

Posted on Tue 3rd, June 2008

Page of 2

• #26

Rosmal

Trial and error.
It could be anything from the general area if you haven't sourced it yet. Wouldn't be great if you dropped cash on a new crankset only to find it was the pedals.
Check for dirt on chain, chain ware, play in pedals, dirt on BB spindle, loose bolts, possibly a crack in the frame.
A good cleaning an a new layer of grease may help.

Did you give your bike a good going over after the mud, rain, snow (also grit) of the winter?
• #27

reluctant_roady

Thanks guys!

Did you give your bike a good going over after the mud, rain, snow (also grit) of the winter?

erm, not exactly no. 1st stop will be to clear the crap off it, I need to do a few tweaks to it anyway (cables, brake blockes etc).
• #28

CowHen

When i had creaky cranks all it took was a dis- and re-assembly, plus tightening the crank bolts like fuck. However, they were square taper so i'm not sure if it translates to octalink or whatever the langster has...
• #29

pifko

This thread should help:
https://www.lfgss.com/thread23547.html

Page of 2

Post a reply
- Bold
- Italics
- Link
- Image
- List
- Quote
- code
- Preview
Formatting Help

Don't worry about formatting, just type in the text and we'll take care of making sense of it. We will auto-convert links, and if you put asterisks around words we will make them bold.

Tips:

Create headers by underlining text with ==== or ----

To *italicise* text put one asterisk each side of the word

To **bold** text put two asterisks each side of the word

Embed images by entering:
![](https://www.google.co.uk/images/srpr/logo4w.png)
That's the hard one: exclamation, square brackets and then the URL to the image in brackets.

* Create lists by starting lines with asterisks

1. Create numbered lists by starting lines with a number and a dot

> Quote text by starting lines with >

Mention another user by @username

For syntax highlighting, surround the code block with three backticks:

```
Your code goes here
```
Just like Github, a blank line must precede a code block.

If you upload more than 5 files we will display all attachments as thumbnails.

For a full reference visit the Markdown syntax.