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[urban_biker]

I am a bit obsessive about bike noises and find it hard to understand how some people can live with some of the creaks and rattles I hear on rides.

You're talking about my creaking groaning Galaxy aren't you? I established eventually that the noise was coming from the Brooks saddle. Once I oiled the underside, rails etc it went a lot quieter. I think I need to oil again as the noise now seems to be coming back.

[Greenbank]

I am a bit obsessive about bike noises and find it hard to understand how some people can live with some of the creaks and rattles I hear on rides.

a) The noises keep me company. They're more interesting than some people I've been stuck with on Audaxes...

b) Headphones

[clarion]

I don't like noise.  That's why I have Shimano hubs...

[TimO]

I don't like noises either, but with London traffic it's often not easy to hear things!  When I've been trying to adjust new gears (slight tweaks to the barrel adjusters), it can be difficult to do it on my commute, the only places which are really quiet are about a mile from my house, and the short bits across Tooting Bec and Clapham commons.

[clarion]

That's very true.  Normally, if there's a noise, I can pick it up and diagnose as I'm going along, and adjust promptly.  In London's roar & clatter, you could be riding something out of tune for miles & miles before spotting it.

EDIT: Note how I still use 'normally' to describe not being in London, though I've lived hear nigh on two years, and probably have at least five years before I can even think of shifting

[LEE]

Mudguard "fettle" has worked a treat.  4 holes and 2 zip-ties later, no tyre rub.

The creaking bottom bracket that took a couple of B/B removals, greasings, tightenings, test-ridings..was..in fact.. my (not tight enough) seat pin clamp ! DOH!

Bike is getting quieter by the day.

Maybe I should just relocate to inner London.

[Frenchie]

Baby G's new bike

She's making quick progress with it too.

[alan]

Baby G's new bike

She's making quick progress with it too.

 

[mike]

Baby G's new bike

She's making quick progress with it too.

my new desktop:

[LEE]

Wow, awesome !, simply timeless , weathered and beaten by the forces of nature for millions of years, something witnessed by our ancestors and witnessed, seemingly unchanged, by us, all those years after.





The Carradice Barley, you really can't beat it can you?

[clarion]

Oh...  I thought you were talking about mike

[Oaky]

Mudguard "fettle" has worked a treat.  4 holes and 2 zip-ties later, no tyre rub.

The creaking bottom bracket that took a couple of B/B removals, greasings, tightenings, test-ridings..was..in fact.. my (not tight enough) seat pin clamp ! DOH!

Bike is getting quieter by the day.

Maybe I should just relocate to inner London.

I had a similar bottom bracket dismantle/degrease/regrease/tighten/lather/rinse/repeat cycle recently where the noise turned out to be a combination of

1. the front wheel creaking in the fork dropouts (in time with pedalling, only when out of the saddle, and sounding for all the world like it was from the BB!), solved by putting about an 1/8th of a turn of extra tension on the skewer

and

2. something in the stem/handlebar clamp region - strip/degrease/lightly regrease/rebuild fixed that one

[DrMekon]

Could someone link me to wherever the advice on this drilling and ziptieing mudguards is? There's a fair bit of space between the fork crown and the mudguard on my Aravis - I am guessing it's a case of an extra hole in front and behind the two that you get by driling out the rivets for the fork mounting bracket, then running zip ties between the front two and back two, and each pairs respective hole on the fork crown - is that right? If so, what do you do if you want to mount a light on the fork crown?

Also, does it make the mudguards less flappy compared to the fork mounting bracket?

[border-rider]

Could someone link me to wherever the advice on this drilling and ziptieing mudguards is?

Mud guards and close clearances

Also, does it make the mudguards less flappy compared to the fork mounting bracket?

Not that I've noticed - I've always put that down to flex in the guard itself, not the mount

[DrMekon]

Thanks for that.  I am fine for clearance, despite running 37mm tires... think I'll just have to learn to live with occasional buzz from the mudguard clips.

[GruB]

During my 32 mile spin yesterday I thought of Mike's weathered and worn photo so I stopped and took this one 

[mike]

 

That'd be yellow bar tape then? I wonder who bought that... 

[David Martin]

During my 32 mile spin yesterday I thought of Mike's weathered and worn photo so I stopped and took this one 

Something seems to be seriously off with the colour balance in that shot..

..d

[eck]

Something seems to be seriously off with the colour balance in that shot..
..d

 
That'd be yellow bar tape then?

[fuzzy]

Baby G's new bike

She's making quick progress with it too.

Is that some fettling I see going on?

If so, Nutty- pay attention to a master (mistress) at work

[Regulator]

Baby G's new bike

She's making quick progress with it too.

Is that some fettling I see going on?

If so, Nutty- pay attention to a master (mistress) at work

Are you suggesting that Nutty should wear a helmet whilst fettling? 

[clarion]

Of course.  And do it in French where possible.

[Woofage]

Of course.  And do it in French where possible.

Whilst downloading instructions for Shimano transmission on his Apple PC

[alan]

& then test riding on a Sustrans route

[LEE]

Am I correct in thinking Frenchie has got Baby G plugged into the mains via an extension lead?