Front wheel creak
09-27-09 | 09:24 PM
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Front wheel creak
so earlier tonight i was riding my fixed gear and noticed a sort of creaking or tinking...for lack of a better word. i've narrowed it down to my front wheel as it spins... when i lift the wheel off the ground and set it into motion i hear a creaking or tinking...cant necessarily tell if it is rhythmic or not...i thought it may be the spokes...i squeezed the corresponding spokes together to see if any ahd been moved out of place.what should i do?
09-27-09 | 09:50 PM
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sounds to me like your front hub may need repacking / adjusting. my rear hub was recently making a ticking sound. just repacked and cleaned - new bearings and grease. dead silent.
09-28-09 | 11:35 AM
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the wheels are practically new...i got hit by a car in may ona different bike while still building this one. while i do ride at the very least a few miles daily i've probably only been riding the bike since late june or july
09-28-09 | 02:31 PM
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new wheels doesn't mean hubs or spokes come from the factory adjusted correctly or they could have loosened up in a few months. or if you ride in sloppy weather water could have seeped into your hub. its hard to diagnose but if you have it narrowed to a spinning front wheel - that'd be my guess.
09-28-09 | 04:29 PM
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You see, their morals, their code...it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these...These "civilized" people...they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve
09-28-09 | 06:44 PM
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If you lock up the front brake and pull/push the bike forward & back, does it *ping*? Thats the typical loose headset. More common than most other issues, too.
09-28-09 | 11:33 PM
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meaning if his front wheel is off the ground and its making noise its got nothing to do with the headset.
