Soloutions for creaky cranks.

[pete_mcc]

Axle tapers should be bone dry. If you grease them your crank tapers will wear and become rounded.

Only with steel bb, using copperslip/anti-seize on ti bb is standard practice, just not grease. You then tighten up using a torque wrench rather than by hand to avoid over tightening.

 

[scant]

Hi all.

Running Middleburn RS7 XC Duo

in my experience of middleburn cranks the spider tends to creak against the actual arm over time. strip it down, clean it & use threadlock on the spider lockring to stop it from working loose.

 

[Lion]

Creaking cranks

It's worth applying a small amount of grease to the inside face of the non drive side bottom bracket cup. Stops any creaks from the bottom bracket also