Twilkes
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It feels like I’ve had a dozen or more problems with this bike before I’ve even really used it in anger (Cannondale Optimo) but I now have a rotary rubbery squeaking sound on the front wheel.
On the outside of the hub but inside of the forks there are some rubbery covers and things that seem to be acting like washers – this is what is causing the squeak. If I spin the wheel the squeak is there – if I slowly loosen the quick release the noise stops as soon as those washer things turn with the wheel, so I’m assuming the noise is caused by something rotating within rubbery bits?
Edit – in the photo, from left to right, is the skewer cap, the fork, a thin rubbery thing that presumably acts like a washer against the forks, and a rubber cone that presumably just covers some of the gubbins of the wheel. It’s the thin rubbery bit that starts turning when I loosen the wheel and the noise stops.
Anyone recognise this problem, and is there any standard maintenance/cleaning I can do to get rid of the noise, without getting into disassembling things?
On the outside of the hub but inside of the forks there are some rubbery covers and things that seem to be acting like washers – this is what is causing the squeak. If I spin the wheel the squeak is there – if I slowly loosen the quick release the noise stops as soon as those washer things turn with the wheel, so I’m assuming the noise is caused by something rotating within rubbery bits?
Edit – in the photo, from left to right, is the skewer cap, the fork, a thin rubbery thing that presumably acts like a washer against the forks, and a rubber cone that presumably just covers some of the gubbins of the wheel. It’s the thin rubbery bit that starts turning when I loosen the wheel and the noise stops.
Anyone recognise this problem, and is there any standard maintenance/cleaning I can do to get rid of the noise, without getting into disassembling things?
