Can't find the source of a horrible creak
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chugsy
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- Location
- Nottingham
heh heh... still not ridden the thing in over two weeks! The closest I got was last week when I smashed the ice up in front of the shed with a hammer to gain access - cables on the old MTB were seized from the cold so I did a litte cable maintenance. Snow and ice has only really melted two days ago in my neck of the woods-just in time for the next wave :|
The bike is a cheapy Giant Escape 1 (2008) so no fancy BB or cranks - Alivio and under. I don't have tools for BB or Crank extraction - is this any good?
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/lifeline-crank-removal-tool/
Don't want to spend too much on it...
Thanks everyone for the interest - will update when I finally start commuting again (hopefully next week if the snow doesn't settle).
Cheers,
The bike is a cheapy Giant Escape 1 (2008) so no fancy BB or cranks - Alivio and under. I don't have tools for BB or Crank extraction - is this any good?
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/lifeline-crank-removal-tool/
Don't want to spend too much on it...
Thanks everyone for the interest - will update when I finally start commuting again (hopefully next week if the snow doesn't settle).
Cheers,
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chugsy
Senior Member
- Location
- Nottingham
Finally started riding again after 4+ weeks (and really feeling it :
- during the break there wasn't much I could do except perform a bodge service on the pedals (oil bath then packed with grease). I guess sitting in the shed for a further two weeks did the trick as the noise from the left pedal has disappeared! Now if only I can work out why the disk brakes have started dragging again...
Does anyone have tips on how to fully dismantle a pedal axle - I can see the knut at the end of the axle but don't have any sockets that would fit in to loosen it.... I think a new set of sealed bearing pedals are in order.
Thanks for all your advice - hopefully someone else will have benefitted from the various answers proffered.
- during the break there wasn't much I could do except perform a bodge service on the pedals (oil bath then packed with grease). I guess sitting in the shed for a further two weeks did the trick as the noise from the left pedal has disappeared! Now if only I can work out why the disk brakes have started dragging again...Does anyone have tips on how to fully dismantle a pedal axle - I can see the knut at the end of the axle but don't have any sockets that would fit in to loosen it.... I think a new set of sealed bearing pedals are in order.
Thanks for all your advice - hopefully someone else will have benefitted from the various answers proffered.
Holdsworth
Über Member
- Location
- Crewe, Cheshire
The last time I had a creak on my bike it was down to the pedal crank. It started off with a creaking when pedalling, it soon turned into a periodic creak and clicking with movement and then one night the entire left crank fell off half way home on my 5 mile commute
I had to nurse to the local bike shop, about a mile away, and kept having to kick the crank back on every couple of yards!!!
Moral of the story is, don't buy a cheap MTB from a catalogue and expect it to work after more than a year!!!.
I had to nurse to the local bike shop, about a mile away, and kept having to kick the crank back on every couple of yards!!!
Moral of the story is, don't buy a cheap MTB from a catalogue and expect it to work after more than a year!!!.
