Single speed making noises (HELP)
HELLO!!!
I have been the proud owner of my specialized langster for nearly two years now. I have had ALWAYS had it in the free wheel side of the "flip flop" hub. I would estimate we have done 1500 miles together in that form. And she has been good as gold, never touched it maintanance wise, bit of a grease/re grease but nothing serious
THEN
The other day I decide "I wonder what it is like as a fixed gear"
So I do my short commute to work and back, no dramas, but having nearly launced myself into oncoming traffic a couple of times I decide to revert back to the comfort and safety of the free wheel again
Well, my bike radar forum chums, my once quiet, steady running Langster now sounds like it is dragging a bag of bolts behind it. This horrible cruching noise when I put any power through it makes me think Im about to dissapear in a cloud of chain links!
What have I done????
Is this the end, have i stretched the chain and gone and ruin the drive train, is this a common thing, why oh why???
I seem to have brought early maintenance on my once maintenence free bike!!
Can one of you lovely people please explain....
I have been the proud owner of my specialized langster for nearly two years now. I have had ALWAYS had it in the free wheel side of the "flip flop" hub. I would estimate we have done 1500 miles together in that form. And she has been good as gold, never touched it maintanance wise, bit of a grease/re grease but nothing serious
THEN
The other day I decide "I wonder what it is like as a fixed gear"
So I do my short commute to work and back, no dramas, but having nearly launced myself into oncoming traffic a couple of times I decide to revert back to the comfort and safety of the free wheel again
Well, my bike radar forum chums, my once quiet, steady running Langster now sounds like it is dragging a bag of bolts behind it. This horrible cruching noise when I put any power through it makes me think Im about to dissapear in a cloud of chain links!
What have I done????
Is this the end, have i stretched the chain and gone and ruin the drive train, is this a common thing, why oh why???
I seem to have brought early maintenance on my once maintenence free bike!!
Can one of you lovely people please explain....
All about the aggregation of marginal gains (or marginal losses, depending on who you are!!)
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If I vote no, does that mean no to both or no to the first and yes to the second?
EDIT: make sure the wheel is straight in the drop-outs. If the plane of the freewheel is not parallel to that of the chain rings then I imagine that will generate quite a lot of noise.0 -
go back to fixed ??? a week or two riding a fixed and you'll soon be cruising"I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
--Jens Voight0 -
I ride an old fixed thing and it constantly makes a racket and sometimes the chain falls of and i crap myself. Meh0
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a situation where the chain falls off or i indeed "crap myself" or for whatever reason/run the risk of going into a road/on coming traffic/a bus is one i am trying to avoid, just to be clear on that
for the record i have taken the wheel out several times for whatever reason and it has never made this noise before...
im gonna try to take it out again and put it back and see "whaguan" as my yr 11s would say...All about the aggregation of marginal gains (or marginal losses, depending on who you are!!)0
