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Gags
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Well......it took me a while but I finally located the source of the noise
on my roadie.
As per previous post.....I replaced headset bearings after finding them to
be pretty dry and rusty...no good.
I then undid all of the bolts in the headset, cleaned and lightly greased
them......noise was still there.
I pulled out the bottom bracket and it was pretty well stuffed......was
quite hard to spin around and was grinding a bit. Put in a new one that I
had lying around (I also took off the cassette, chain, deraillieur,
chainwheels and gave them all a degrease). Got everything back together and
the noise was still there.
Now I am getting a bit worried that there might be a crack somewhere in the
frame that I couldn't see....I did a couple more laps up and down the street
and realised that I couldn't get the noise to happen when I was standing
up!!
Took the seatpost out of the frame.....cleaned up the clamp and greased the
bolt before putting it all back on the bike.....Noise is gone - woot!!
I am a bit ****** that all it was in the end was the seatpost clamp but I am
glad in a way as I ended up catching the rusty headset before it got beyond
repair, discovered the bottom bracket was stuffed (I think I only got about
13,000km or so out of it), and did the driveline. All in all it cost me
about $5 or so for the two new bearings for the headset (I had bought the BB
as part of a bulk lot from Ebay some time ago).
Thanks to all those who provided advice although I am sure that I could have
done it a lot quicker if I had half a dozen or so people around telling me
what to do (like changing a tyre in front of the BR crowd)
Ride On,
Gags
on my roadie.
As per previous post.....I replaced headset bearings after finding them to
be pretty dry and rusty...no good.
I then undid all of the bolts in the headset, cleaned and lightly greased
them......noise was still there.
I pulled out the bottom bracket and it was pretty well stuffed......was
quite hard to spin around and was grinding a bit. Put in a new one that I
had lying around (I also took off the cassette, chain, deraillieur,
chainwheels and gave them all a degrease). Got everything back together and
the noise was still there.
Now I am getting a bit worried that there might be a crack somewhere in the
frame that I couldn't see....I did a couple more laps up and down the street
and realised that I couldn't get the noise to happen when I was standing
up!!
Took the seatpost out of the frame.....cleaned up the clamp and greased the
bolt before putting it all back on the bike.....Noise is gone - woot!!
I am a bit ****** that all it was in the end was the seatpost clamp but I am
glad in a way as I ended up catching the rusty headset before it got beyond
repair, discovered the bottom bracket was stuffed (I think I only got about
13,000km or so out of it), and did the driveline. All in all it cost me
about $5 or so for the two new bearings for the headset (I had bought the BB
as part of a bulk lot from Ebay some time ago).
Thanks to all those who provided advice although I am sure that I could have
done it a lot quicker if I had half a dozen or so people around telling me
what to do (like changing a tyre in front of the BR crowd)
Ride On,
Gags
