Embarassing LBS moment
oscarbudgie
Posts: 850
So at 11.30 last night I decide to get round to fitting the new stem I bought months ago. All's fine until I notice a very discernible creak when I moved the bars. Hmmmm. Dismantle the stem, grease everything, bolts, spacers etc. Creak still there. And still there the second, third, fourth, fifth time I stripped it all down and reassembled. 2am. I give up but have another go this morning. Still no joy so I concede defeat and beat it shamefacedly to my LBS worried that I'd at the very least knackered the headset or worse. 'There's a really bad creaking coming from the headset' 'Its the cables' he says. 'Are you sure?' Sure enough a tiny squirt of GT85 onto each of the cable stops on the steerer tube and creaking gone. 30 seconds and some very dented pride. Boy I felt a prat. God bless LBS's everywhere.
Cannondale Supersix / CAAD9 / Boardman 9.0 / Benotto 3000
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Had that the other week. Had just spent the afternoon with the bike upside down while I replaced the back wheel & gears. Turned it back over, and as the handlebars turned, they clicked and crunched. As they did when I lifted the front wheel and turned it side to side. Shiiiiiiiit more spends.
Found out it was the cables before I put any more orders in to Wiggle.0 -
Really worried after the Evans sportive - hit a pothole coming down hill and the whole front end went 'creeack' - my first experience of carbon forks so thought I'd done serious damage - went out last week and had a similar experience - got onto the workshop on here and explained - certain well know Yorkshireman asked if my headset was tight - checked and found it was OK but I'd forgotten I'd adjusted the angle of the bars just after I bought the bike - checked the four bolts at the front to find that I needed between a quarter and half a turn on each - tightened up - rode today and guest what - silence :oops:0