Betsy
Old School Grand Master
Some musings.. which may or may not be of any help..
A couple of years ago i would have said the bb on my work bike was perfectly smooth.. there was no play/noise. I put my Honjo mudguards on ready for the winter and instantly heard an irregular twanging from the back wheel long/short it wasn't the wheel, it was the bb. The Honjo's bolt into the bridge between the stays behind the bb and they were amplifying an undetectable sound from the bb like a tuning fork, I replaced the bb and it fixed the issue...
More recently i had a consistant ticking/pinging sound from the back wheel (no mudguards this time) on every revolution, it was happening while pedaling and/or freewheeling so it had to be the wheel, i thought it was the hub.. all the spokes seemed tight. I could get the pinging noise to stop by shifting my weight away from the back end (it didn't happen on the stand, only in the saddle) all the spoke nipples are corroded, again long/short i ended up putting a small spot of 3 in 1 on each nipple and the clicking stopped so one of spokes is moving in the rim, i'm just not sure which one...
A couple of years ago i would have said the bb on my work bike was perfectly smooth.. there was no play/noise. I put my Honjo mudguards on ready for the winter and instantly heard an irregular twanging from the back wheel long/short it wasn't the wheel, it was the bb. The Honjo's bolt into the bridge between the stays behind the bb and they were amplifying an undetectable sound from the bb like a tuning fork, I replaced the bb and it fixed the issue...
More recently i had a consistant ticking/pinging sound from the back wheel (no mudguards this time) on every revolution, it was happening while pedaling and/or freewheeling so it had to be the wheel, i thought it was the hub.. all the spokes seemed tight. I could get the pinging noise to stop by shifting my weight away from the back end (it didn't happen on the stand, only in the saddle) all the spoke nipples are corroded, again long/short i ended up putting a small spot of 3 in 1 on each nipple and the clicking stopped so one of spokes is moving in the rim, i'm just not sure which one...