Cycling and your sanity

[Levo-Lon]

Been using my hard tail for work this week..
Got a rattle, you know one of them ffs rattles
Seat and post checked ,no
New BB fitted last week,no
Bars and cabling ,internal..no
Pedals ..cleats no
Cable ends ,no
Wheels no
Frame no...

Just got home tonight and caught the gate as i walked the bike in, noise happened??
Bloody bottle cage

I always have a bottle in it for trail and xc..commuting i dont bother, and breathe


All good fun

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Glad you did not lose your bottle when rattled.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Paging @Salty seadog ....

 

[Salty seadog]

Paging @Salty seadog ....

I'm mostly sane.

Cycling certainly helps.

 

[annedonnelly]

I had an annoying rattle yesterday on the way home. I thought it might be my newly fitted front mudguard but then I realised it was a spoon rattling against a glass jar in my lunch bag

 

[Swanage53]

I used to have an annoying noise in my car, sorted it after a while though. I got a divorce!

 

[pjd57]

Cycling keeps me sane.

 

[Swanage53]

I had a rattle from the front of my brnad new bike on only its second outing, took me a while to establish that the battery in the newly fitted front light is not a snug fit. Wrapped a bit of tape round and all is quiet once again.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I was teaching a lad to drive once and every time he put the clutch down there was a click. I was watching his foot on the pedal and just couldn't figure out what was causing it. Soon as he got out and I took over the clicking stopped, so I thought it must be something he was doing. No problem for the rest of the week and I forgot about it till his lesson came round again and as soon as he started driving the bloody clicking started again. I asked him could he hear it too and he told me he could, his knee always clicked like that that when he straightened it.

Doh!

 

[Soltydog]

Got a rattle, you know one of them ffs rattles

New BB fitted last week,no

Just got home tonight and caught the gate as i walked the bike in, noise happened??
Bloody bottle cage

Funnily enough earlier this year I'd just changed my BB & a few rides later had an annoying rattle/creak. Thought it must have been the BB, but no, a few days later my bottle cage came loose, tightened the bolt & hey, no more rattling

 

[Levo-Lon]

Funnily enough earlier this year I'd just changed my BB & a few rides later had an annoying rattle/creak. Thought it must have been the BB, but no, a few days later my bottle cage came loose, tightened the bolt & hey, no more rattling

These things are sent to try us..

 

[Soltydog]

These things are sent to try us..

& they certainly do try me. I hate having creaks & rattles on my bikes. The winter bike has one at the mo & can't suss out the source for the life in me

 

[StuAff]

There ain't no sanity clause. But two-wheeled travel (whether self powered or with an engine) certainly helps my mental state.

Spending money on a boring metal box on wheels, so you can spend hours in it getting to work, and then spend hours paying for it, yet kidding yourself (a) it's an interesting metal box and (b) a sensible way to live your life, OTOH....that's nuts.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I'm mostly sane.

Cycling certainly helps.

Yeah but about ‘bike rattles’ though.....

 

[lazyfatgit]

Good that you found it.

Nothing more annoying when you’re in the groove and then some random recurring noise brings you back to reality.