Should i go Back to Decathlon and Try to Not cry in front of Decathlon mechanic ?
Brand new bike, barely 200 kilometers on it, and it's already creaking from the bottom bracket.
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by whentheskycry
Should i go Back to Decathlon and Try to Not cry in front of Decathlon mechanic ?
Brand new bike, barely 200 kilometers on it, and it's already creaking from the bottom bracket.
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by whentheskycry
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I installed the pedals with the manufacturer-recommended grease and torqued them to spec, so it’s definitely not coming from there.
Doesn’t sound like bottom bracket to me
Check rear axle tightness, seat post, bottle cages
Check the seatpost and saddle rails are tightened up properly.
This video is just too short to tell me anything, that sound could come from anywhere, by the way it’s rarely the bottombracket, sound travels along the whole frame. It could for example be the saddle.
Video is too short to diagnose. I recently solved a creak by adding more preload to Shimano non-drive side crank. Not sure if applies to your problem tho.
Yeah, bring it back.
Does not have to be the BB at all. But in any case it is a warranty they have to look at. If you don’t get this fixed, it will break so definitely valid for waranty
200km? Its normal to retorque all the bolts then
I silenced a creak recently by (after checking everything I could think of) discovering the rear derailleur hanger was not torqued to spec. I removed it, cleaned it and the frame, applied a little grease and torqued to spec. Squeak gone.
It’s actually 100% expected and totally normal for new bikes to develop creaks and such in the first few hundred KM of riding.
Even if the mechanics who assembled the bike did everything perfectly in the shop, brand new parts are going to settle in a bit as you ride, the only way to prevent this would be for the mechanics to ride your bike a ton before giving it to you, which isn’t practical, so instead most shops just offer a free/discounted tune-up on bikes they sell, giving them a chance to address issues like this, and get you in the habit of taking the bike in for maintenance.
I have no clue, i’m not a mechanic at all. I just came to beg you not to ride your bike with slippers. A family friend of mine used to do that untill she fell and her big toe got wedged in the chain.
Long story short. At least she still has 9 toes.
Don’t bike without shoes, people.
Probably like me you had a lazy assembly requiring regreasing / retorquing
Tighten your saddle, your seatpost and try again. Sounds like a loose saddle to me.