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I’ve had a set of hope evo cranks (no spider) for about 6 months and I cannot get them to stop creaking - they’re pissing me off now and about to be replaced for a set of anything else that doesn’t creak!!
I’ve stripped them down, greased, torqued and adjusted them and replaced the bearings in the 30mm (Hope) BB and I cannot get more than 20 miles without the creak starting again.
The adjuster on the non drive side always seems to need tightening (yes, I have the right number of 2.5mm spacers for my 73mm bb shell).
Running out of ideas and patience now - am I alone in this with Hope cranks? Does anyone have any other ideas?!
Bike is an Orange crush and I’ve “checked” that the creak is coming from bb - stuck an old 24mm shimano bb and crank on and it’s silent!! 😢
Last thread like this they'd snapped but turned out to be user error.
Sounds like you've checked everything so you already know the answer. Sell them and replace with shimano cranks.
Love a good hope Product but I don't get why anyone would use their cranks over a pair of xtr cranks.
Mine creaked at one point, it was the lockring for the chainring not being tight, but assume you checked that
Per George’s experience, my RX crank’s creek was solved by cleaning and copper greasing the crank/ chainring interface
I've never known a crank to creak. A BB on the other hand...
I had a new Hope Evo crankset for 4 months and had to swop it. It repeatedly came loose, creaked and required constant attention. The small bolt to fix the adjustment ring didn't seem to 'lock' it. Went back to Shimano XT and no more irritation. Fit and forget.
I had similar issues recently and found that I’d put the bearing shields on the wrong way round. Time will tell if correcting this has sorted out the creaking.
usually the chainring/spider not being tight on the crank, as said above.
Usually user error in setting them up as the design is horrendously complicated to do it right!
If you clean and grease all the interfaces, then read the instructions twice, then put it together, then read the instructions again, then reassemble to correct the mistakes you made then that should sort it.
If that fails give up and buy some different cranks.
The Evo's like the OP's are easier to set up, but still need to take care of the ring piece.
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still need to take care of the ring piece.
If ever there was a motto to live by
So is it the crank or BB that is creaking?
setting them up as the design is horrendously complicated to do it right!
PULL ARM ONTO SHAFT, FIT TAPERED PLUG, FIT END CAP, ADJUST PRELOAD COLLAR..
Nope - It's an Evo as OP said. Arm on axle, tighten Hex bolt, adjust preload.