"Uh-uh. Respek Knuckles."
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: CA
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Bikes: '06 LeMond Versailles, '04 S&M Beringer, '03 Quamen Bowls, '68 Raleigh Grand Prix (converted to fixed gear)
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Also never hurts to have a buddy ride alongside and behind you while you reproduce the sound...it's often easier to pinpoint a sound from several positions around the bike rather than up on it yourself. I would have sworn I had a noise coming from the BB because of the way I could 'feel' the sound, took the entire thing apart, cleaned out the threads, ran the facing tool over the shell, regreased and reassembled the whole mess to no avail...buddy rides alongside and in 3 seconds goes, "Oh, it's definitely coming from the front wheel."
Carbon frames seem to be the worst to diagnose...a lot of times if a faint tick or creak can sound like it's coming from everywhere and nowhere all at once. x_x