My Bird Zero is making a clicking noise every time the cranks pass 6 o'clock. The Race Face XC Race bottom bracket is 3 months old along with the rest of the bike. I have switched onto different pedals and the sound persists. The sound only occurs when I am pedaling hard, climbing or out the saddle. Any ideas to what this sound could be?
Cranks loose? BB toast? Loose headset/stem/lock one check everything!
Cranks are a really tight. The cane creek headset is good as well any other ideas?
Could be:
Rear quick release
Front quick release
Seat clamp
Seat post in frame remove and grease
Chain ring bolts
Stem spacer
Stem / bar interface
Stem / steerer interface
Crank axle
Dry BB
Mech to frame interface
Drop out to frame interface
Brake pads moving in caliper
Crack weld (very unlikely)
Seat rails / clamp
Basically as above.... Could be anything! Go ride in the rain and see if it goes away.
Doncorleoni has it!
Perhaps take everything to bits, clean, fresh grease.
Or put up with it and do any maintenance as necessary and eventually sort it by default.
Depends on how much time you've got on your hands, but mountain bikes are meant to get filthy, be generally abused, and keep rolling. Mostly.
Just to be safe I'd do a quick 'M check' as demonstrated here. This ought to make sure it isn't anything that will end up with a stay in hospital.
RF BB you say...?
I dunno, mine has done that occasionally. I resolve the issue by ignoring it.
As per the Don. Recently had a similar issue, stripped down and replaced a few bits that were due changing. Still persisted. Turned out to be the non-drive Raceface crank/axle interface. However I'd start by looking at the BB & pedals.
Thanks for the info. Will follow all these leads up.
I had a shitty seatclamp on my Dale, which I didn't look at first and had BB bearings, headset bearings and everything spread over the garage floor in trying to source it. Also Cane 'Creak' headset on my EX Trek lasted 4 rides before it died a sealess rusty death. Not saying they aren't better today than 6 years ago, but worth a punt to have a look too. Manufacturers are good at using a micron of grease in headsets, so maybe worth packing some in there for good measure.
if the creak is in a specific position when pedalling, I would start with the chainring bolts. They tend to be the only thing that loads up exactly the same way all the time. Things like duff bearings in BBs get rotated so will creak at different points of rotation over time, and crank axles tend to creak all the time if they do.