A few weeks ago I was riding in the snow, i then sprayed down my bike with water in the shower and since then my pedal stroke always get "stuck" at the same position. I can push through it, but you always feel a short resistance at the same point of the pedal stroke.
I have a chain wear tool here, that tells me my chain might be ready, to exchange, but its at the exaxt line between replace and being okay. But as the pedal always stops at the same point on the chainring regardless of the gear, I am thinking it might be the chain ring?
How do I verifiy what needs to be fixed, I am a bit confused right now.
Pedal Stroke getting stuck at same position every time. How to fix this?
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by Fuzzy-Active5583
3 Comments
Seems like you might’ve washed out your bottom bracket bearings. I’d take off the crank n check those, or get a shop to do it if you don’t have bb tools or a torque wrench.Â
The only consistent location in this system is when your cranks are at 90 degrees. This isolates the problem from your cassette and derailleur to something going wrong with the crank. Chain rings are fairly easy to diagnose, if something’s unaligned or broken it’s typically easy enough to visually confirm. I’ve destroyed and pitted bottom brackets in the past n this can be what it looks like. Maybe an individual ball bearing exploded, and the result is getting caught on a specific part of the crank arm spindle.Â
Take the chain off the ring and try again. If it binds at the same place you may have some damage to the bearing race in the bottom bracket. If the crank spins free, it’s probably damage to a tooth on the ring.
Cadence sensor hitting the chain stay?