Your least favourite sound on a bike?

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  • JackPozzi
    JackPozzi Posts: 1,191
    The rumbling sound of someone's else disc wheel who is about to catch me in a time trial
  • izza
    izza Posts: 1,561
    Any click or screech that is intermittent - you know you'll never find the source without spending too much money.
  • DavidJB
    DavidJB Posts: 2,019
    The sound of bikes crashing.
  • housemunkey
    housemunkey Posts: 237
    Revdarny wrote:
    The creak of a bottom bracket

    This. Closely followed by almost everything else mentioned.
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  • rosavillewill
    rosavillewill Posts: 25
    Buckie2k5 wrote:
    My clicky bb30 that i have done everything too try remedy ,slowly driving me insane.

    +1 !
  • SpainSte
    SpainSte Posts: 181
    Lycra-Byka wrote:
    AchillesLeftKnee wrote:
    SpainSte wrote:
    That annoying clicking noise my bike has developed over the last couple of rides whenever I press too firmly on the right hand pedal :cry:
    Not trying to derail the thread, but have you tried tightening the pedal (as in, to the crank)? In my experience, a slightly loose pedal makes precisely that noise.


    I can second this advice. Just done the same. Pedal not tight enough and a bit of lithium grease and noise-be-gone.


    Great! Thanks for the advice fellas, I'll give it a try when I get home from work!
  • Skinner2k3
    Skinner2k3 Posts: 310
    Deffinately agree on BB30 creak!

    Also hate the sound of a car sitting behind after about the 3rd perfectly adequate place to pass me.
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,980
    Found a new one last night.

    The "Bzzzzz" coming from the bug that just flew into your ear and is now seemingly taking up residence in your brain.

    GETITOUT...GETITOUT...GETITOUT!!!!!!!!!!
    "Avan-TT"
    F*cking Fast 29er
    Rapid Rose Roady
    Bionicon Beast
    Rockhopper Communter
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    That ping when you pull on something and a cable snaps.

    This noise is somewhat more harrowing when you only have one cable on the entire bike and it is for your only brake :shock:
  • Ron Stuart
    Ron Stuart Posts: 1,242
    When my carbon bike exploded like a bomb when hit from behind by a hit and run driver :evil:
  • stephenlinden
    stephenlinden Posts: 66
    The clunk from the frame as a pothole forces your saddle up your bottom. :shock:
  • ajhapps
    ajhapps Posts: 16
    The crunch of a dropped chain at the start of a climb. . . mostly because it was entirely my fault for not changing gears sooner!
  • binkybike
    binkybike Posts: 104
    clickitty-click-click-click-clickitty-clickitty- click-click-thunk.

    and then I know one of the silly clumsy people at work has smashed my rear derailler while trying lock their bike up next to mine and i know i am going have to straighten the hanger and index AGAIN!
  • wheelie-bin
    wheelie-bin Posts: 124
    Spokes snapping :x
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    My least favourite sound is the complete silence that follows losing control of the bike and leaving the ground. Soon to be followed by a selection of crashing, pinging, squelching and snapping sounds as bike and rider land in a heap.

    Second least favourite is the tinkling sound of the rear mech hitting the spokes. Most recently when I fell off while clipped in at the end of the drive and was too embarrassed to abandon the ride. Only discovered I'd bent the mech hanger when I got to the first proper hill and couldn't use the 2 biggest sprockets :shock:

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