Originally Posted by rms13

So I have been riding my CAAD9 for a few weeks now. There is a horrible creaking noise whenever I put a lot of load on the pedals. Mostly seems to happen in the big chain ring. Climbing hills in small ring I rarely hear it, hammering the cranks on the flats in a high gear I hear the creak at the bottom of each pedal stroke.

I've posted a couple of threads but just curious from the CAAD owners if you have dealt with this. Searching the net, it sounds like a common problem. My bike has BB30 with factory installed adapter and I am running SRAM cranks with GXP bb. I have taken out the cranks and bb twice and cleaned an regreased everything. I just regreased my headset bearings. I have checked and tightened every single bolt on the bike. I have checked for visible cracks in the frame and there is nothing obvious.

I want to just ignore the noise but it's very disheartening to hear it every peadal stroke.