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

I had a similar noise once, thought it was the chain ring bolts so replaced them, still happened, few days later tightened the seatpost bolt and the ticking stopped

well, the chain is pretty new, so...hmm

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

could be a stiff link in your chain, do you hear it on every 2nd revolution of the cranks?

kowalski It's yer deathclock.

Ticking.

Always.

Ticking.

+1 (click)

i had a similar thing, after a long time studying my drive train i noticed that my chainring was the only thing i hadnt swapped out and over the years and had developed a flange on odd teeth of the chainring where the chain had been pressing, when the cranks would go round the flange on the chainring would catch the chain and cause a ticking sound. swapped out the chainring, ticking stopped :)

I had an intermitting clicking once and it turned out to be a crack in the front rim around one of the spoke holes. Doesn't really explain why you only get it when pedalling hard but it's just a thought..

tighten your rear spokes. the spokes have bedded together where they cross, the resultant dents in the spokes are slipping past each other because the spokes are too loose.

maybe

Over the last week or so - since my bottom bracket service - I've been hearing a ticking sound too, Nimhbus. What's causing it is a total mystery to me, but just like you, I only ever notice it when I'm pedaling hard. As soon as my backside's off the saddle, or when I'm pulling hard on the bars...tick...tick...tick. It's quite a friendly, inoffensive noise. I mean, I've not been having sleepless nights over it. Still, it would be nice to get rid of it.

For a while, I thought the sound was emanating from my handlebars. Rather stupidly, I don't have any sort of grease at all between the bars and the clamp. That theory's been shelved, though, because I reckon I get one click for each complete revolution of the cranks. That suggests it's coming from the drivetrain, right?

Och, I dunno. Let me know if you find out the cause of your problem, please.

stevo_com tighten your rear spokes. the spokes have bedded together where they cross, the resultant dents in the spokes are slipping past each other because the spokes are too loose.

will you please stop saying that.

I dread to think what would happen if Nimh took a spoke key to his perfectly good wheels..
this site is beginning to become a mine of disinformation, like so many others.

it was his saddle rails, BTW.

My money is on headset cups.

And Flyer Boy in the 3.30 @ Chepstow.

Either that or someone has given you a bomb to deliver.

Toodle pip

Chainring bolts?

could be a washer on a string in the seat tube.... did that to a guy once took him months to find out what it was.

RPM

it was his saddle rails.

(shh about the washer, Chris. I'm hoping he won't find that one)

the best is covering a a ball barring in grese, and dropping it into some ones deep rims as your building them, when the grese wears off its so loud.

shrimps in the seat tube

RPM [quote]stevo_com tighten your rear spokes. the spokes have bedded together where they cross, the resultant dents in the spokes are slipping past each other because the spokes are too loose.

will you please stop saying that.

I dread to think what would happen if Nimh took a spoke key to his perfectly good wheels..
this site is beginning to become a mine of disinformation, like so many others.

it was his saddle rails, BTW.[/quote]

hence the """""""MAYBE"""""" at the end of my comment. I had a knocking/ticking noise that I couldn't diagnose for ages (only happened on the bike, no problem in a workstand) and tightening my loose spokes solved the problem.

What exactly is wrong with suggesting a solution to a problem that is similar to one I've had?

It was his saddle rails, good for him, that I couldn't tell from his post. Sorry for trying to help with a tidbit of experience.

you should have put the maybe at the start of the comment then, in that case.

before he tightened his spokes and fucked his wheel right up, causing a knock-on effect that resulted in half of the Fulham road being mistaken for a banana by a troupe of cannibalistic midgets (who proceeded to worship it as a Deity) and holding up traffic for two hours until the Samaritans were able to send a negotiator.

?

he doesn't have to do exactly as I say you know, and the post wasn't exactly massive so the 'maybe' can be seen by anyone with the peripheral vision of a tunnel bound blindman. Besides, an decent wheel won't be cocked by a quarter turn all round, especially if loose spokes are the problem!

you don't have an answer for the midgets though, do you?

RPM [quote]stevo_com tighten your rear spokes. the spokes have bedded together where they cross, the resultant dents in the spokes are slipping past each other because the spokes are too loose.
it was his saddle rails, BTW.[/quote]

Man, that's so fkn easy to find! I'm ashamed to have contributed to this thread. :P

midgets shmidgets!!!!! hiding behind their chaise longues!!!!!

well, it turned out to be the cheap-assed saddle i have on the bike. needed a bit of tightening up. Thanks to the Tooting Rooters for diagnosing, and i'm just relieved it was something trivial.

RPM shrimps in the seat tube

use a pole to shove used condoms down the top tube.

hello all, my new bike and i enjoyed our first fall together on monday thanks to a zero warning left turner on green lanes, at first it seemed like the only damage was grazed handlebar tape but i've now noticed a clicking sound that seems to happen every 5 or 6 pedal revolutions coming from the bottom bracket. I don't really see how the fall would have caused it but just wondered if anyone had experienced something similar? cheers