Originally Posted by baxtefer
Re. you cranks: are you just saying that the gap between the left crankarm and BB shell is larger than the gap on the right side? If so, that's completely normal.
oh, sweet... guess that takes care of that worry. thanks.
Originally Posted by drac_vamp
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Originally Posted by drac_vamp
dammit! stupid seat. that's what it was for me too. like a million times. we always think its the most complicated problem involving bottom brackets and tapers and its as simple as right under our dumb-lazy-assses.
check your bottombracket/cranks anyhow. take it all apart and get to know it. its fun
as for your bars: tighten stem in both places then if still creaking - have fun with the headset!
as i've had pointed out to me, i can't get my cranks off without a crankpuller, and that's one tool i don't have
also, how do i make my seat stfu?
finally, i have tightened and retightened my bars, they still creak incessantly. as for the headset, i'm pretty sure it's fine and that if i put my old fuji drops back on (which i don't like-- those newfangled 'ergonomical' drops are strange), the sound would cease immediately. which leads me to this:
Originally Posted by onetwentyeight
Get better bars
I think it might be just the metal flexing. Do they bend a little when you put all your weight down on them?
edit: stem might be flexy too. I used to have a cheap modolo stem to some flexy aluminum bullhorns that were similar in stiffness to a large rubber band. if i put all my weight down on them they would flex about 1/2 - 3/4 inch. they were noisy. Then again on that bike the headset was garbage too.
they don't bend or flex under my weight, but i do feel slight vibrations with the creaks on occassion. my bet is that i am in fact riding a ****astic set of bars. i want to get some real bullhorns anyway. gotta start saving up. the only thing about these chops is that i've become attached to them; they were my first ever tape job and i'm actually pretty proud of it:
this image is huge, but i'm too lazy to resize and reupload. so yeah. that's my bars when i first taped them. man, the brake looks weird now. i finally took it off a few weeks ago after i hadn't touched it once since the week that i got it. i was keeping it around as a safety measure, but i've started skipping and stuff like that so i don't really feel that it's ever going to do me any good. if anything i probably would've just ended up going over the handlebars. so anyway. yeah. that's them.