Thanks for the story. I never would have thought of the bottle cage. --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Mojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Mojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [RBW] Quickbeam Weird Squeek, Solved! To: "RBW Owners Bunch" <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 11:13 AM I was preparing to write to you all to help me troubleshoot a squeek that has been bothering me for 4 months. But before I did that I had to try everything I could think of. One of the nice things about a single speed is the quiet pure of the bike, so this squeek was really irksome. This was a regular squeek, not with every pedal stroke but with most and with the pedaling rhythm. Back in the longer warm days of August, I changed the cartridge bottom bracket to get a better chainline and soon after the squeek started. Riding no hands or standing indicated it wasn't the h'bars-stem or saddle-seatpost. So I Boeshield sprayed in the BB shell hole hoping to lube whatever it was. No effect. I check the chainring bolts and pedals, all tight. I carefully checked the frame over, no seperating lugs, thank goodness! So I finally pulled the crank and the BB, lubed the sleeves-cartridge interface and locktighted the sleeves and installed with good torque. I lightly 'lubed' the axle with skin oil from behind my ears as I was taught, and tightly installed the Superbe Pro crank. Hopped on and the damnable squeek appeared before I got out of the driveway. After a week or two, I tried the other rear wheel I have for this bike. Squeek, Squeek. Desperately I changed chains. Squeek, Squeek. The last month, it hasn't bothered me as much as I have been riding with earbags http://www.earbags.com/ but the squeek was still my riding partner. I was choosing to ride other bikes so I wouldn't have to hear it. Yesterday, riding the Q back from my boy's house, I wondered if the waterbottle cages were tight. In my driveway I pushed on the seattube bottle, Squeek! All this time it was a waterbottle cage! It is the $10 steel cages that Rivendell used to sell, and it seems the weld seam has come loose a bit. With the cage replaced, the bike pures. All is right in my bike world again. It was a bothersome, but kind of fun little mystery. Fun now that it is solved! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
