Mysterious clicking turned into grinding

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  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
    Imposter wrote:
    SkeetAM wrote:
    Check and grease the contact points of both front and rear QR skewers. Had clicks with both before.

    Not your best idea. As already pointed out.

    How would you know? And it is a good shout BTW.
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Milemuncher1 wrote:
    Imposter wrote:
    SkeetAM wrote:
    Check and grease the contact points of both front and rear QR skewers. Had clicks with both before.

    Not your best idea. As already pointed out.

    How would you know? And it is a good shout BTW.

    Because, as had already been pointed out, lubricating something that moves when it shouldn't simply promotes/enables the movement of the thing which shouldn't be moving. It's a stupid idea. On that basis, it comes as no surprise to learn that you think it's a 'good shout'...
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,811
    First Aspect wrote:
    Am I the only person who can see the word "grinding" in the thread title?
    Not the only one, but one of the few judging by some of the answers. Although one man’s creak could be another man’s grinding perhaps.
    I’m still in favour of the crankset being a possibility.
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  • 964cup
    964cup Posts: 1,362
    OK, here's a really unlikely one. I went through three seatposts trying to find the source of a creak on one of my bikes before I realised it was the seatclamp moving on the frame. Titanium frame, alloy clamp. Carbon, then alloy, then titanium posts. Solution - a smear of anti-seize around the clamp where it fits over the seattube. Problem solved. Fortunately the spare carbon post then provided a good excuse to buy another bike to use it on.
  • JackR88
    JackR88 Posts: 10
    redvision wrote:
    If you have checked everything else my money is on the wheels.

    thanks all for your input. Got it back from LBS today and basically the wheels were dead.....hubs and rims, i am a heavy rider and they have done 10000km which the guy said was about normal.
  • skeetam
    skeetam Posts: 178
    Imposter wrote:
    SkeetAM wrote:
    Check and grease the contact points of both front and rear QR skewers. Had clicks with both before.

    Not your best idea. As already pointed out.

    What would you do with clicking/squeaking QR skewers on a carbon frame, other than tightening them even more? (which FYI didn't solve it)

    The idea that the wheels will fall out, is not a good one either :lol:
  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
    JackR88 wrote:
    redvision wrote:
    If you have checked everything else my money is on the wheels.

    thanks all for your input. Got it back from LBS today and basically the wheels were dead.....hubs and rims, i am a heavy rider and they have done 10000km which the guy said was about normal.

    I’ve had a couple of issues in the past, with creaks being due to badly worn out rims. If you’re not careful, the rims can disintegrate quite spectacularly. It makes a hell of a bang when it happens too :shock:
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,142
    SkeetAM wrote:
    Imposter wrote:
    SkeetAM wrote:
    Check and grease the contact points of both front and rear QR skewers. Had clicks with both before.

    Not your best idea. As already pointed out.

    What would you do with clicking/squeaking QR skewers on a carbon frame, other than tightening them even more? (which FYI didn't solve it)

    The idea that the wheels will fall out, is not a good one either :lol:
    Personally I would try another set of skewers.

    The problem is no so much that the wheels will fall out but that by disguising the problem, which is all you would be doing, you will ultimately make it worse. You are after all just stopping the noise, not the movement itself.

    And actually it’s not that hard to twist a wheel that’s not held tightly enough and end up with rather more braking force than you expect. Or alternatively you could get home and find the tyre has worn a chain stay or something like that.

    I’ll keep an eye out for the next “is my carbon frame fooked” thread.
  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
    First Aspect wrote:

    The problem is no so much that the wheels will fall out but that by disguising the problem, which is all you would be doing, you will ultimately make it worse. You are after all just stopping the noise, not the movement itself

    .

    True, but as a diagnostic method, if you find that lubing the skewers ( or more commonly in my experience spoke crossover points / spoke nipples etc) and the noise stops, you then have a better idea where the issue is, and where to concentrate on.

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