Originally Posted by
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So I took the bike back up to the shop and believe it or not the thing was dead silent. The mechanic even rode it up the street a few blocks to see if he could hear anything. When he didn't hear anything he rode another bike and followed me for a few blocks and not a sound was present. I'm completely perplexed. He did oil my chain, tighten my spokes and adjust my brakes but he didn't think they would cause the sound I recorded in the video. He put it on a rack and looked for some chain rubbing but couldn't get it to do anything out of the ordinary. Even did some short sprints inside the shop and its as quiet as the day I bought it. I'm kind of at a loss really.
This reinforces my speculation that the noise was chain rub. If it had been contacting the ft der cage then a simple trimming (or moving of the shift lever) might well relocate the cage and eliminate the rub. I have many customers who don't know about the real function of their shift levers or sometimes even if they have "done anything" when something changed. Andy