Brand new bike. It’s making this clicking noise when I rock the bike back and forth. Can anyone tell me if this is normal or what it sounds like?
by CharacterBunch2634
Brand new bike. It’s making this clicking noise when I rock the bike back and forth. Can anyone tell me if this is normal or what it sounds like?
by CharacterBunch2634
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Could be lots of things, but a few questions first.
1.) can you tell if it’s coming from the back or front of the bike? It looks like it’s from the front, but not sure.
2.) does it do the same thing when you’re not holding the brakes?
My first guess is something with the rotor/brakes. The way the sound resonates makes me think it’s coming from the wheel and if you have the brakes on, there may be a loose rotor bolt or loose caliper bolt. Headset would be another guess, but like I said, it could be lots of things. But if you give some more details on where the sound is from, I think we can all help you out a bit better.
Try greasing your suspension linkages. This happened with my new bike and was the lower mounting point of my shock.
Undo the shock bolts sightly(loosen it), then see if the noise is still there.
See if you can grab the rear tyre and the handle bar together and try twist the bike, it sounds like suspension linkage bolts to me
this happened with my new bike from trek once. I took it to them, they took off the headsets and stem and then lubed around the frame part that holds the fork. That worked for me.
Check your spokes. Sounds like one ore more are a bit loose and movibg around. You have that piano string resonating sound.
If not that, check all bolts on your head tube/handlebar. The sound is there when you apply force on the handlebar…
I had a clicking noise that turned out to be lose bolts on the part between tube and handlebar (no idea of name here…)
Put the front wheel against the wall and see if you can get the headset to creak or move without the brakes. Could also be dry suspension bolts or your brake pads binding. Really sounds like a headset, though.
sometimes your brake calipers can be loose
Try removing the fork, greasing the steer tube and reinstall the fork making sure it is tight
Sounds like your brakes just aren’t engaged fully to be honest.
Ah this sounds to me like it is the pads moving in the calipers..
It sounds like your brakes. Mine do the same
Can you recreate the sound without engaging the brakes?
Brakes? Try it against wall, without brakes pressed.
I’ve had headset creaks on my pretty new Sentinel. I tightened the headset which worked for about 1 ride. I continued to ignore it for awhile and finally regressed it the other day. So far so good.
I had something similar, it was brakes. The pads had some play inside the caliper, couldn’t do much to fix it without replacing the calipers with something different, but it wasn’t a problem.