Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
Sorry to ask but what is an air tag?
I don't know either.
Sorry to ask but what is an air tag?
Tracking device.Sorry to ask but what is an air tag?
Seen many of those in the shop, the Rozone washer usually gets them looking half-decent again.
Would it also put new teeth back on the sprockets ? One had none left.
I completed the installation of the new BB on my Devon bike and have just been out for a short test ride.
The good news is that I now have a nice clean new BB on the bike.
The other good news is that I think I have a decent used BB to put in my spares box here.
The bad news is that that's because the ticking/creaking noise on the bike is still there, so the old BB will probably be reusable after a good clean!
No harm done (except to my bank balance!) - clean is good, spares are good. It just means that I have to carry on looking for the cause of the noise.
I now suspect that it would be good to whip the cassette off, grease the splines on the freehub, and reinstall the cassette with the lockring nice and snug. Maybe I didn't tighten the lockring enough when I fitted the cassette? I don't have a torque wrench and have a history of overtightening things, so I have been trying to avoid it. I might have gone too far the other way.
The other thing I saw suggested was to lube the spoke nipple/rim holes. I would be surprised if noisy nipples are to blame but it is easy to check so I will do that now. I don't have a cassette tool or chainwhip here so I can't tackle the cassette this visit.
Chainring bolts maybe?
Does sound like the cassette now; trouble with these sort of noises is they could be from anywhere as the sound source is hard to pin down.They had Loctite on the threads but I undid them, cleaned the chainring (it is a 1x11 bike), bolts, and cranks and then reassembled everything.
I also noticed that the headset was not quite as tight as it probably should be. Even though there wasn't any obvious play in the headset, there was a creaking from the front end of the bike when I stood behind the bike and pushed and pulled against the front brake. I tightened the headset a little and checked that there was not any problem turning the bars after that.
I greased the QRs.
I also heard a little rubbing from the disk brakes which I almost entirely got rid of by adjusting them. (A bit of a compromise there because the static pads have to be close to the rotors for efficient braking so they do still occasionally brush against the rotors but now not enough to annoy me.)
The bike is significantly quieter now, but the main noise is still there. I am fairly sure that removing the cassette, cleaning everything, greasing the freehub splines and reassembling with the correct torque on the lockring will fix that. (Famous last words! )