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• Clickety click when pedalling

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• Riding fixed is like flying kite without a string

  in General • 11 years, 5 months

  

  Riding fixed (downhill) is like jogging on the spot on an escalator.

• Clickety click when pedalling

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 11 years, 5 months

  

  chainring bolts

  I checked these again. Seems I missed one. Last time I probably check 4 of 5 and thought the other must be tight too. It was not. Lesson learnt there. I tightened it best I could with a kitchen knife and an allen key. It was a helluva lot better, but started clicking again after around 3km on up hills. Gonna order a chainring nut wrench today and give a real good tighten :)

  Saddle.

  Check your wheel bearings. Had a persistent/click creak until I took off the rear wheel and span it whilst holding the axles. Crunchy as hell and would help explain why it happens when you freewheel too.

  Before you dismantle your hubs though grease saddle bolts, threads and seatpost. Eliminate the easy things first!

  yeah I had the wheel bearing problem like se1derful...

  For some reason I was convinced that it was my chain ring bolts.

  I replaced chain ring bolts (2 sets), BB, and pedals before realising that it was the rear wheel bearings. The bearings were pitted and causing an awful lot of noise while riding. The fact that it doesn't happen under load (when on the stand) might indicate a bearing problem.

  Thanks for all the suggestions!

  Will grease up the saddle bolts and seatpost tonight. If I still have noises I'll check out the wheel bearings too. I had suspected something up with the rear hub, I went down a sandy cycle track in the wet a few months back and am sure that was not a wise move. I did attempt to get in there once, but could not figure out how. It seemed a sealed unit. It's a "Formula TH 51" that came with the bike.

  The BB bolts are insanely tight - I was standing on my BB tool! I was trying to fix a previous creaking sound that I was convinced was the new BB not aligning with the cranks, anyway that turned out to be the old chain. Fixed the grinding from the old BB though. Strange how noises seem to not come from the source, they must be amplified through the frame to some other place.

• Riding fixed is like flying kite without a string

  in General • 11 years, 5 months

  

  Riding fixed is like shooting pigeons in a barrel. Blindfolded.

• Riding fixed is like flying kite without a string

  in General • 11 years, 5 months

  

  Well as a rocket surgeon, you would fail. The kite would be launched and forever drift pushed by thermals and differing breezes. Till one day the kite bio degrades and dies with only the spirit of the kite forever drifting in our souls.

  Indeed I'm a failed rocket sturgeon.

  I'll battle on in the hope one day a kite spirit will enter my soul, free my mind and elevate my knowledge of the cosmos.

• Clickety click when pedalling

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 11 years, 5 months

  

  mine had the same issue as yours.. but then discovered that my clipless pedals needs some lubrication on the 'clip-springs'.. after that clicking noise is gone.. it's a look keo 2 max btw..

  Thanks man, I think I can rule that out though, here's my pedals

  

• Bike parts you hate.

  in Bikes & Bits • 11 years, 5 months

  

  

  I didn't realize charge make double ended dildos.

• Bike parts you hate.

  in Bikes & Bits • 11 years, 5 months

  

  space bike

• Recommend me a podcast

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 11 years, 5 months

  

  High Times presents Danny Danko's Free Weed

  RSA podcasts are pretty varied and on the whole interesting

• Clickety click when pedalling

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 11 years, 5 months

  

  Thanks will check both.

  I'm pretty sure chainring bolts are tight as it was on Sheldon's list but it won't hurt to check again.

  Dumb question, but if I just stand in the pedals whilst pedaling and it still clicks will that rule out the saddle?