http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Clicky clunky paranoia en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:48:24 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313981 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 19:34:28 +0000 I were right about that saddle 313981@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Put back together? Oh yes I see. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313979 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 19:21:27 +0000 Frenchy 313979@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Longer than a bike should be allowed to go unridden. Particularly if you count putting it back together correctly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313968 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:33:16 +0000 I were right about that saddle 313968@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchy</p> <p>Just how long does it take you to strip a bike? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313967 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:30:16 +0000 wingpig 313967@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"except the pedal seized" works a bit better, syllable-stress-wise?</p> <p>I swapped my pedals across then back again in July 2018, so they're probably still removable. The crank bottom bracket nut on my loft-bike-frame is a different matter. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313959 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:22:58 +0000 gembo 313959@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Regrets I've had a few<br /> but then again, too few to mention<br /> except the seized pedal<br /> I've seen them through without exception </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313958 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:22:38 +0000 Frenchy 313958@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Every bicycle should be atomised and remolished every year</em></p> <p>No bike should be unridden long enough to be taken to pieces. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313957 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:15:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 313957@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, I am regretting your choices in years gone by. Every bicycle should be atomised and remolished every year but few are, including mine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313956 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:06:29 +0000 gembo 313956@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS, your reasoning is impeccable except I cannot get the pedal off to give it the service on the Crank side. Yes on the LHS </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313949 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:56:24 +0000 I were right about that saddle 313949@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One of the advantages of doing a bearing service on your pedals is that it forces you to take them off. Doesn't force you to copper grease them before they go back on but you can. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313947 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:37:39 +0000 Baldcyclist 313947@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Most clicking can be fixed with headphones. Only real downside is that component failure often comes as a surprise, but at least months of paranoia can be avoided. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313946 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:34:09 +0000 CycleCommute.CC 313946@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Same thing happened to me @gembo a couple of months ago. RHS pedal was clicking and then went really wobbly, but couldn't get it off. Hart's tried heating it and all manner of tools but it was gubbed. Whole new chainset needed as well as new pedals :( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313944 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:25:40 +0000 I were right about that saddle 313944@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>pedal is making intermittent ticking noise so is going to break at some point</em></p> <p>Might just need a bearing service. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-313938 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:41:41 +0000 gembo 313938@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>resurrected as lot of the old crew in run up to 10 year anniversary</p> <p>oh yeah and bike shop of very high repute cannot get RHS pedal off. Can get LHS pedal off but not RHS. Have tried heat.</p> <p>This was prep for swapping pedals tomorrow. </p> <p>pedal is making intermittent ticking noise so is going to break at some point. @CHDot pointed out bargain pedals about 5 years ago - clip in one side, flat tother that were a bargain - so I have been waiting.</p> <p>Bike shop say new crank</p> <p>I say Feck </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-32834 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:18:32 +0000 crowriver 32834@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The ticking noise that seemed to come back on my hybrid has now (apparently) disappeared following removal of the bracket for a child seat, which was clamped to the seat tube. Maybe it was clamped too tight, causing some stress on the seatpost or frame, or it/its fixings were flexing causing the noise. Nice to have a quiet bike back! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-32210 Thu, 26 May 2011 22:24:06 +0000 crowriver 32210@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Went for a quick jaunt on the folder at sunset this evening up to Dunsapie Loch. Not one single creak.</p> <p>This is interesting. I was travelling unloaded, save for waterproof jacket/windproof and some gloves in the handlebar bag. So if I can do a fairly steep climb like that (not even in lowest gear, 2nd was as low as I went) without creaking noises, then I imagine it is not the BB or cranks.</p> <p>If the load I carry for commuting (from 4kg up to 8kg, sometimes more) is causing the bike to creak, then what is the cause? The carrier stays? The frame hinge? The frame itself flexing? Or is it just the increased flex causing seatpost, hinge, BB etc. to creak?</p> <p>It's a mystery... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-32191 Thu, 26 May 2011 12:29:20 +0000 recombodna 32191@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I suppose now i come to think of it I never questioned that broken crank. was chastised by a mechanic at williamsons for greasing the tapers and always lived by that rule ever since. If I remember rightly it was a deore lx biopace and it cracked in the inside corner of the taper then just snapped of as I was riding fairly slowly. Could have just been a freak accident. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-32183 Thu, 26 May 2011 10:54:19 +0000 chdot 32183@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"surely the crank bolt threads are not stronger than the crank?"</p> <p>The bolts will be steel and the cranks aluminium - not that it's as simple as that. </p> <p>Cranks will be under constant, variable, stress from pressure on the pedals. </p> <p>Overtightening the bolts - with a tapered crank too - will add further stress. Whether this is more likely with grease is (I suspect) a matter of conjecture rather than experimental fact! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-32182 Thu, 26 May 2011 10:47:54 +0000 Dave 32182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Notwithstanding recombodna's experience, I've always greased my tapers because I can't see any reason not to. What I don't understand about the crank splitting idea is that surely the crank bolt threads are not stronger than the crank?</p> <p>If I had a sacrificial BB I'd try this by cranking up the bolt until one or the other went, but I don't. Maybe I've been living dangerously all these years. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-32180 Thu, 26 May 2011 10:18:12 +0000 recombodna 32180@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>and what if your BB spindle is non-tapered?</p> <p>Too modern for me! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953&page=2#post-32179 Thu, 26 May 2011 10:12:47 +0000 kaputnik 32179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>and what if your BB spindle is non-tapered? (i.e. Shimano Hollowtech)</p> <p>Oh, I've now read the link from Its_Me_Knees - apparently they get greased. Good-oh </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953#post-32176 Thu, 26 May 2011 09:36:35 +0000 recombodna 32176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yeah I'm just going by personal experience. Used to grease my mountain bike tapers back in the day until the drive side crank split on me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953#post-32155 Wed, 25 May 2011 20:37:14 +0000 Its_Me_Knees 32155@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@recombodna: I used to think the middle east saw the clash of the most irreconcilable of opponents known to mankind until I started reading about greasing tapers. Online forums have folk coming to blows, and there's no middle ground between the greasers and the dry joiners. See <a href="http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-173471.html">here</a> for an example of when two worlds collide. Even the manufacturers can't agree apparently...</p> <p>However, as the dry joint appears to have worked for me, I'll stick to that <em>modus operandi</em>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953#post-32113 Wed, 25 May 2011 11:32:53 +0000 crowriver 32113@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The creaking is still there, albeit not as loud or frequent as before. Possible culprits: saddle clamps (need to check all the bolts etc. as I just greased the bit that clamps onto seatpost); folding pedal on right side (the foldy bit); cranks; bottom bracket.</p> <p>Should have some time next week to do the necessary surgery! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953#post-32090 Wed, 25 May 2011 09:34:12 +0000 recombodna 32090@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>" I greased the tapers slightly, but the second time I wiped the tapers and the cranks clean " </p> <p>Never grease yer tapers!! It can cause the crank to be driven on to much and eventually crack..... good job wiping them clean. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953#post-32074 Tue, 24 May 2011 19:35:08 +0000 crowriver 32074@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So I found a spare hour to grease the seatpost, saddle clamp, and pedals. Quick test ride, including giving a backie to my son on the rear carrier for a few hundred yards.</p> <p>Glad to say most of the creaking seems to have disappeared. I'll see how it goes on the commute tomorrow. I suspect the bottom bracket will need an overhaul at some point, but maybe later... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953#post-31878 Sun, 22 May 2011 23:06:42 +0000 wee folding bike 31878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can use fancy pants grease or get a big tub of Castrol LM from Halfords or a motor factors. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953#post-31871 Sun, 22 May 2011 20:46:10 +0000 Its_Me_Knees 31871@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another 15 miles this morning, and this time the clicky-clunk didn't return. At the end, I found that I could tighten the crank securing bolt no more than another 1/8-turn on each side. During the first reassembly I greased the tapers slightly, but the second time I wiped the tapers and the cranks clean - not sure if that made any difference or if my more enthusiastic tightening second time around did a better job. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953#post-31867 Sun, 22 May 2011 19:39:29 +0000 crowriver 31867@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wfb <em>If you've got the tools you might as well have a bash at the BB yourself.</em></p> <p>Should have the tools. I need to get the right grease though. Also a bit worried I'll just make a hash of it. I suppose there are various tutorials online that I can try. </p> <p>Anyway, will try the other bits of the bike first, no harm in making sure they're greased properly... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953#post-31862 Sun, 22 May 2011 17:03:08 +0000 wee folding bike 31862@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you've got the tools you might as well have a bash at the BB yourself. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2953#post-31861 Sun, 22 May 2011 15:52:05 +0000 crowriver 31861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for the tips folks. I'll get the copaslip out and look into the seat post/clamp/saddle clamps. Next the pedal threads.</p> <p>If that doesn't fix it, it's probably the BB. When I bought it, noticed the left hand lockring was rotated out of the thread a bit, I could tighten it by hand! Ordered the appropriate Park tools wrench and tightened it, but maybe if it was not quite tight, laying in a garage for a year, the grease may have dried out a bit. Might just take it to Eastside bikes and get the BB overhauled. Nice chaps and the prices are reasonable... </p>