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I've just given my bike a right good seeing to: new chain, cassette, derailleur, chainring, cleaned and greased the bearings in the pedals, BB, both hubs. New tyres: SB8s after 2 years on PR Cinders, wowsers. I even cleaned the frame, which almost never happens.
Everything's working beautifully, except I can't get rid of the clicking in the pedal bearings. They're 9 year old V8s and they still get the job done perfectly: they're attached to cranks, and when I push down on them, they go round and the bike moves. And they're grippy, so my feet don't slip off. The noise makes no difference whatsoever to the function.
They've probably got another 9 years of doing this job perfectly, and I could even get some new pins to make them grippier.
But there's the noise. New V8s just for a bit of piece and quiet? New v12s for longer-lasting piece and quiet?
It's Golden.
I thought the V8 was re buildable?
I would change them, because that noise is incredibly hard to eliminate and it does my head in too. 🙂
New bearings? Fiddly to do but about three quid IIRC.
I thought there was a grease port on V8s? Pump them full of goodness!
I've pumped so much that its spurted out the end and now there's mess everywhere.
Can you get replacement races too? Mine must be pitted to hell.
the shim round the seatpost on my p7 creaks all the time and after 18months i still can't get rid of it. i've learnt to see it as part of the bike's character. maybe i need to lose some weight....
new V8s
ive got V12, and the carts dont fit the axels properly, they are a bushing at the crank end and generally not worth the hastle.
look after V8s as best you can and replace them in 4 yrs.
Can you get replacement races too?
The race is part of the axle, and replacement axles are pretty cheap. Or just overtighten them and let them grind the races smooth again. Loose bearings are ace! 🙂
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£10K.
For that amount I know a fella that will sort out whoever it is thats blabbing. Chicken-wire, concrete mix and a lake in Cumbria; hey presto! your problem is sorted....
If this isn't the type of silence you're after, can we just forget this ever happened? ❗
adh, is that for my ears, or to wrap me up in for being a diddums about the noise?
10K to have my pedals "taken care of" sounds a bit much.
I might as well just buy new ones.
Or just overtighten them and let them grind the races smooth again.
Does that really work? Sounds too good to be true!
Both ned, both 🙂
Does that really work?
As a random bloke on an internet forum who has never really bothered to check this hypothesis, you have my solemn word.
V8's grippy?
I thought that too, then i saw the light and bought some burgtechs 🙂
At £140, I should bloody hope so!
Mr A. Thanks, that's good enough for me! Flawless logic behind the hypothesis and backed up by solid peer review.