trail-blazer
Retro Guru
Last few rides out on my old road bike I noticed an annoying creak, not excessively loud but annoying all the same. 99% of the time it would only do it under load. I tried a few things to silence it starting with greasing the saddle rails, checking the BB shell wasn't dry, I changed the pedals and it was still there.
Anyway my next step was to swap the wheel over for a modern one and the bike runs silent again so the wheel was the issue all along. The wheel is a Rigida rim with a Shimano Exage hub, nowt special but it matches the front and is in good nick with low usage. The hub/freehub is in good condition, is adequately greased and has no play so I'm putting it down to the spokes. I had another noisy wheel which I silenced by dropping some oil where the spokes cross each other but this one isn't playing ball.
The wheel was trued earlier this year and was fine so I'm at a loss. Spoke tension isn't massively tight though. :? Is it worth oiling the spokes at the hub and the spoke nipples to see if that helps?
Anyway my next step was to swap the wheel over for a modern one and the bike runs silent again so the wheel was the issue all along. The wheel is a Rigida rim with a Shimano Exage hub, nowt special but it matches the front and is in good nick with low usage. The hub/freehub is in good condition, is adequately greased and has no play so I'm putting it down to the spokes. I had another noisy wheel which I silenced by dropping some oil where the spokes cross each other but this one isn't playing ball.
The wheel was trued earlier this year and was fine so I'm at a loss. Spoke tension isn't massively tight though. :? Is it worth oiling the spokes at the hub and the spoke nipples to see if that helps?