Originally Posted by Jason Curtiss
In addition to Sheldon's excellent advice, you might want to check your seat adjuster. I recently experienced similar symptoms on my 1980 Schwinn Voyager. I tightened up the dual-nut, micro seat adjuster and the noise vanished.
Good point. Bicycle frames can act as a "sounding board" so that it can be difficult to localize things by sound.
I used to be really annoyed when my bike would make noises, but now I have an iPod, so there's no more problem...
Sheldon "Eh?" Brown
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