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My E5 has developed a creak from the rear. It is there when pushing on the pedals seated and not. The same creak can be heard if the bike is up-side-down and the rear wheel flexed from side to side by hand.
Any help or thoughts?
Grease your big grippers first.
+1 for grippers and the associted bolts. Next point would be the bearings/link bolts and possibly the shock bushes, just clean and use the correct grease. Good luck!
SKF LGAF 3 is the recommended grease, its about £60+ a tin (it does work though) 😯
Check it carefully for frame cracks under the shock too...defo grease the big grippers and check they are tight enough when you clamp em shut...shot of WD40 on the pivots one by one to isolate the problem may help....BB is tight yeah?
Thanks for the help folks. I am now fearing the worst.
I tried all your suggestions without luck.
I know its hard to tell where the creak comes from on a carbon box section but I now think its where the drop-out section in connected to the box section on the drive side?
Any further advice?
As you said sound resonates strangely through carbon but keep an open mind when trying to determine where it’s emanating from. I had a similar problem and took it to my LBS where it was found that the big gripper mechanism itself was loose and needed tightening. This resolved the problem.
What have you used on the drop outs? I use Red Devil Grease, which is excellent.
Good luck with that, our old demo e5 creaked like a the door to a haunted mansion no matter what we did.
Mate had a cracked frame on his under one of the pivot mounts 🙁
Hmmm... i had a creak on my e120 in the similar fashion - turned out to be 3 cracks... Whyte replaced under warranty. I think the warranty is 5 years from purchase.
Hopefully, a happy update.
In desperation I removed the rear wheel and fitted a length of pipe into the big gripper dropouts. I applied the same twist motion I did to get the creak with the wheel in, NO creak. I took out each part of the centre of the cassette, axle and wheel in turn, cleaned, re-greased and re-fitted in turn. I think I now know that the captive nuts on each end of the Through Stud must not have been tight enough. I say this because I have torqued each nut to the spec. and these were the last two I did and the creak "seems" to be gone.
I will prove this after tomorrows ride.
A big thanks to all who posted to help.