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Rear wheel issues and/or BB/crank ones from your test.
Common rear wheel issues are axle/bearing/securement in drop outs and spoke tension ones. Crank/BB ones can be bearing, cups in shell and crank arm fit on axle being typical issues there.
What I am unsure of is which noise you're talking about. There's a squeak and a click/tick that I hear.
An easily overlooked cause of wheel clicks can be the spokes get indented at their last cross (closest to the rim), where the spokes contact each other. Over the miles this contact point can wear and the spokes develop a notch and the two notches engage each other. With wheel flex these notches rub and move against each other, sometimes making a click sound. Placing a tiny square of a something hard (like an old credit card cut up) between that contact poing will tell you if that's the issue (and the notches are isolated from each other). Andy
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