Clicking Sound

The Sarge
The Sarge Posts: 6
edited August 2010 in Road beginners
Dear all,

There is an annoying clicking sound coming from the pedals/cranks/chainrings. It disappears when freewheeling or when spinning the pedals when the bike is on a stand. Could this be the pedals need adjusting??

Any thoughts?

Sarge

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  • danowat
    danowat Posts: 2,877
    Saddle or seatpost could be making that noise
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    danowat wrote:
    Saddle or seatpost could be making that noise

    +1
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • DCowling
    DCowling Posts: 769
    Bottom bracket when under pressure
  • soveda
    soveda Posts: 306
    edited August 2010
    Could be:
    Pedals
    Cranks
    Bottom bracket
    Saddle
    Seatpost
    Headset
    Handlebars
    Quick releases
    Or almost anything else on the bike!

    Check all bolts, grease everything that should be greased, try to use a torque wrench so you know everything is at the correct tightness
    After all that you may find it's still there but at least you will know that your bike is working at an optimum function!

    ETA: also cleats in shoes may be coming loose
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Source of the clicking noise on my bike was the BB.

    Constant 'click click' when turning the cranks?

    Do you not get the sound though when turning the cranks by hand?
  • The Sarge
    The Sarge Posts: 6
    No sound when turning the cranks by hand so maybe that suggests that it is only when pressur eis being applied.

    Thanks to all for feedbac so far!
  • bilirubin
    bilirubin Posts: 225
    What type of shoes are you wearing???

    The reason I say this is because I had a strange clicking sound coming from the front of my bike earlier in the year, I discovered it was the type of trainer I was wearing moving inside the toe clips on the pedals.

    It used to start after 5 or 6 miles for some reason and drove me nuts.

    I finally found the problem but have since changed to clipless and cleats anyway so problem solved.

    Could be a long shot but if you cannot make the noise happen when you are off the bike and free wheeling the cranks the only thing that has changed is you not being on it.

    Good luck
  • vorsprung
    vorsprung Posts: 1,953
    Two most likely things are

    1) crankarms hitting the front derailluer cage. But only in the big ring
    2) pedal bearings.

    1) you can see and just needs an adjustment to the cage angle or cable tension
    2) is more tricky :)
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  • gregster10217
    gregster10217 Posts: 469
    I had a similar problem when I got new shoes, Northwave, from the left side only. Changed back to my old Diadoras and the noise went.
    Another source of the problem?
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  • Dunkeldog
    Dunkeldog Posts: 138
    Had exactly the same problem. BB was shot - LBS did a nice job of replacing and only charging me a fiver for labour! Nice. I rode for about a month with the noise until the embarrasment of seeing people turn to look what was coming up the road forced me into action!
  • ian_s
    ian_s Posts: 183
    Try pedalling out of the saddle - if the noise stops, its likely to be the seat post or saddle rails. A likely candidate for the source and one of the easiest to fix - undo, slight film of grease and tighten up properly.

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