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Re: Creaking Carbon bar stem headset interface????

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  1. Original post
    Qui si parla Campagnolo
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    #1
    Jock said:

    Hi all,
    I have a specialized tarmac pro with full dura ace. Its only a couple


    of 100

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    k old but it has developed an annoying squeak. When riding off the


    saddle

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    the squeak occurs in time with the downward pedal strokes but it is


    in the

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    handlebar /stem/ headset interface because if you push hard enough on


    each

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    side of the handlebars (standing over the bars) you can replicate the


    noise

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    when standing still. The bike has carbon oversized specialized bars


    and

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    matching carbon 4 bolt stem. all the bolts seem tight enough (without


    a

    Quoted message said:

    torque wrench) and the brake levers are very secure.

    You said it all....take it back to the place you bought it. Have all
    the bolts greased, torques. Ensure the HS bearings are greased, where
    they live in the headtube.

    Most bikes outta boxes are assembled poorly.

    Report
  2. Robin Hubert
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    #2

    Peter,
    This guy shelled out over $4500 US. This is not an "outta boxes",
    kinda bike.
    Don't forget, even properly assembled bikes develop squeaks and
    creaks, 'specially after rain rides and time in general, even a couple
    hundred km, especially many of the new, superlight bikes.
    Anyway, if the answer was "take it back to the bike shop" we
    wouldn't need all this technical advice and discussion, which would
    make rbt obsolete, which would cause you a loss of daily entertainment.
    OP could've figured that out himself, but wanted us to help him
    figure it for himself. Our purpose here is to educate, empower/enable
    people to fix things themselves.
    Scenario: It is the future and I go to rbt to post a question, and I
    find there is no provision for it. RBT is obsolete. Now a sign greets
    me telling me to just take it to the shop and, if I want to be abused
    and misled, go to rbr (which is now a multiple choice flame war). No
    input needed!

    Robin Hubert

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  3. Bill Sornson
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    #3
    Robin Hubert said:

    Scenario: It is the future and I go to rbt to post a question, and
    I find there is no provision for it. RBT is obsolete. Now a sign
    greets me telling me to just take it to the shop and, if I want to be
    abused and misled, go to rbr (which is now a multiple choice flame
    war). No input needed!

    Oh, the humanity!

    Doomsday Dave

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  4. Mike Jacoubowsky
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    #4
    Quoted message said:

    This guy shelled out over $4500 US. This is not an "outta boxes",
    kinda bike.
    Don't forget, even properly assembled bikes develop squeaks and
    creaks, 'specially after rain rides and time in general, even a couple
    hundred km, especially many of the new, superlight bikes.
    Anyway, if the answer was "take it back to the bike shop" we
    wouldn't need all this technical advice and discussion, which would
    make rbt obsolete, which would cause you a loss of daily entertainment.
    OP could've figured that out himself, but wanted us to help him
    figure it for himself. Our purpose here is to educate, empower/enable
    people to fix things themselves.

    But- the bike shop that sold it has a responsibility to take care of such
    things, and they may be in a position to recognize what's going on very
    quickly, since it's possible they may have sold a number of them and already
    have experience with what causes what. Or, to put it another way, the
    original poster may be able to eliminate his own hair loss by taking it to
    the shop where either they've already lost hair over it and figured it out,
    or they're about to. Either way you save your own hair.

    --Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
    www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

    "Robin Hubert" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Peter,
    This guy shelled out over $4500 US. This is not an "outta boxes",
    kinda bike.
    Don't forget, even properly assembled bikes develop squeaks and
    creaks, 'specially after rain rides and time in general, even a couple
    hundred km, especially many of the new, superlight bikes.
    Anyway, if the answer was "take it back to the bike shop" we
    wouldn't need all this technical advice and discussion, which would
    make rbt obsolete, which would cause you a loss of daily entertainment.
    OP could've figured that out himself, but wanted us to help him
    figure it for himself. Our purpose here is to educate, empower/enable
    people to fix things themselves.
    Scenario: It is the future and I go to rbt to post a question, and I
    find there is no provision for it. RBT is obsolete. Now a sign greets
    me telling me to just take it to the shop and, if I want to be abused
    and misled, go to rbr (which is now a multiple choice flame war). No
    input needed!

    Robin Hubert

    Report

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