Originally Posted by
JusticeZero
I hear a bit of a aluminiummey strainey ticking noise from my cranks/BB area somewhere when I accelerate hard, would that be related? (I'd say it was a creak, but a creak is a sustained noise and this is more like a click that sounds like a creak.)
I get this too, I blame it on a slightly bent chainring/spider. To me it sounds vaguely like one of the clicky ticky pingy noises you hear when you're changing the front gear on a derailleur bike, so my guess is the noise results from the chain being pulled sideways (by bad chainline) off of a tooth right as it is clearing the chainring (uninformed opinion.)
I need a new chainring and/or cranks. For now, I just make sure there's as little slack as possible.