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Worth wearing ear plugs if creaks and ticks do your head in?

shimanobottombracketshimanobottombracket Posts: 376
edited July 2017 in MTB general
What are your thoughts on using ear plugs to stop a creak doing your head in? Theres a "tick" "tick" noise coming from one of my bikes, mostly when pedalling slowly uphill in a low gear. It has a PF30 BB and creaking a common issue apparently.

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  • cooldadcooldad Posts: 32,599
    Because that will fix the problem....
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  • shimanobottombracketshimanobottombracket Posts: 376
    cooldad wrote:
    Because that will fix the problem....

    Well no schit. I am unable to solve the problem so the next best thing was to mask it.
  • cooldadcooldad Posts: 32,599
    So why ask if a censored idea is a censored idea?
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  • shimanobottombracketshimanobottombracket Posts: 376
    Just fed up of spending more time fault finding than I do actually riding it seems. Dont know if its just some bikes are naturally noisy or if they are indeed faulty. My commuter bike rides nicely, but my more expensive MTB and road bike seem to suffer creaks.
  • mattyfezmattyfez Posts: 638
    I'd guess pedal bearing or bb bearing assuming it's threads greased and tightened correctly where nessesary.

    It shouldn't tick or creak at all, if it does, something somewhere is not quite right.

    What fault finding have you done? How old are the bb/pedal bearings?
  • JBAJBA Posts: 2,852
    ShimanoBottomBracket wrote:
    It has a PF30 BB

    That's your problem. Push fit is a stupid idea and the sooner manufacturers get rid of it the better.
    Could be that your BB bearings are on the way out and it needs replacing.

    Other things to check are:
    Pedals
    Chainring bolts
    Crank arm bolts(s)
    Rear wheel tight enough.
    Saddle bolt(s)
    Seat clamp.
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  • swod1swod1 Posts: 1,639
    clicks and creaks are apart of riding.

    Should be easy to fault find as if you stand up pedalling and the noise then disappears then its not bottom bracket, pedal bearings etc.

    my bike has developed a clicking noise and its the seat clamp bolts, saddle flexing to make noise.
  • Long_Time_LurkerLong_Time_Lurker Posts: 1,068
    I just mask the ticking sound with the squeal of my brakes and the clunking of my badly aligned gears.
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  • Angus YoungAngus Young Posts: 3,063
    Long Time Lurker wrote:
    I just mask the ticking sound with the squeal of my brakes and the clunking of my badly aligned gears.

    I just use my tinnitus.
    All the gear, no idea and loving the smell of jealousy in the morning.
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  • rockmonkeyscrockmonkeysc Posts: 14,774
    You've really got a problem when the creak stops. That means whatever was creaking has fallen off
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