breninbeener, that’s interesting, these are bargain basement wheels, cartridge bearings pretensioned by a locknut on a threaded axle, I had dribbled some GT85 in between the bearing and the hub but maybe I need to look at the tension of the lock nuts.
I had decided it is the forks/front wheel by a process of elimination:
– It happens whether you’re pedalling or not
– It happens even if I’ve unclipped and my feet are just dangling
– It happens when stood up (i.e. out of saddle).
– (most difficult to prove) it happens even if your hands are off the bars (albeit less loudly, but I think this is just because it’s harder to put any force through the front when you’re not on the bars.
I’m going to swap the 15mm cone spacer and 25mm of wee alloy spacers for one mother of a 30mm cone spacer and one 10mm alloy spacer, reduce the scope for movement etc. there.
I will also get a shop to take the crown race off, clean, grease and re-install.
Already eyeing up new forks but Kinesis seem to be the only ones to do a reasonably priced alloy fork, and they have none available. Otherwise it’s £400 for a straight steerer carbon Whisky fork!