Vibrating & noise when pedaling - pitted cones?
 

Recently acquired an '05 Specialized Allez Sport Triple, and after taking it to REI to get some platform pedals for it, the friendly guy put them on for me and adjusted my cassette free of charge. When I was about to ride home, I noticed that when I started to pedal, I felt my pedals vibrating, which was something that didn't happen before.

I brought it back into the store and the guy looked at it again, this time looking into the hub and came back and told me that the noise/vibration felt was caused by a pitted cone in my rear wheel.

Are these common side effects of a pitted cone? At first, I thought the derailleur was off, which was why there was that noise, but when thats happened i've never felt such an intense vibrating before.

How safe is it to ride on pitted cones?

sounds arousing

Quite. Insight?

Read Sheldon Browns.com series on replacing cones and bearings.The parts are cheap,unlike sealed bearings in newer bikes.

The folks in the mechanics forum will always help.

"death before disco"

Spyro the dragon. you sure like racking up that post count.

Stick around here a while,You'll also develope a blank stare and droopy jaw.

Hey,are we going to fix the dam bike or not?

Trying, posted in the mechanic forum.

Read Sheldons site also.

Can you direct me to the page on the site? I wasn't able to find it.