2025 Canyon Aeroad. Posting a video of tightening the seat post (no sound replicated) to show the sound isn’t coming from the tool. I can ever feel slight vibrations with every creak/cracking sound.
Creaking/cracking sound when applying torque to my seat post.
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by Blindobb
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That sound shows that it reached the nm you set up.
What you make is go more and over the nm and put higher nm in it.
Thats how these nm wrench works
YOU ARE ALREADY OVER THE SPECS 😀
Learn how to use the tool please
Not sure where the cracking come from. But a torque wrench should be held only on the dedicated handle and not with the finger up there like you do.
Edit : by 5nm it could still come from the handle, but on the saddle there isn’t enough hollow room for it to be as loud
can you take the post holder thing out and see what happens what you tighten it outside of the frame? From the video the sounds are more like clicking than creaking to my ears it might just be the part against the frame (that’s how it work on specialized, not familiar with canyon)
You’re using the torque wrench incorrectly so who knows what torque you are applying.
You should hold it by the handle, no higher up and gently apply pressure.
What’s the minimum torque you can set on your torque wrench?
People tell you it’s wrench because their wrenches make exactly the same sound when clicking, but they haven’t watched till the end of the video of course.
Take your saddle post out, generously lube that seat post holder (if it’s in 2 pieces put grease between them), then apply carbon paste on the seat post itself. This creaking sound can absolutely come from that small movement when thightening but it will sound like you’re tearing something apart. It’s usually more of a creaking while your “clicks” but that can be just audio thing.
To be honest I use this kind of torque wrenches as you show in the video for everything beside bicycle bolts.
For bicycle bolts I use the simplest torque wrench you can find -like in attached photo.
https://preview.redd.it/m9buqj7lwkwe1.jpeg?width=1220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4153a075360042b9d5638791a8a2f3b20cb63047
5 Nm is really low torque to tighten the bolt.
It’s hard to tell from your video, but I once cracked bicycle bolt totally by using the same type torque wrench as you use and I remember hearing some cracking noise before I totally screwed up the bolt – from that time I use only above kind of torque wrench for really low torques as I no longer have any trust in other.
After you feel that bolt is starting to tighten, you need really little amount of rotation to reach 5Nm.
please tell me this is a meme
I have the same bike and had / have the exact same issue. I contacted canyon about this and they had no solution about this. They’ve sent me another clamp / wedge and first the sounds were gone – but they reappeared again. I didn’t do anything about it in the end and am using my bike normally.
RIP carbon frame
From a comment I made last week:
Where you hold the wrench can dramatically affect how the wrench works, and even more so with adapters.
Make sure you’re gripping it at the end of the wrench, using only the handle. I’ve seen others and done similar myself where I’ll hold near the head of the wrench when doing work like this.
And before anyone ats me, here’s some sauce: https://youtu.be/-hSmtLVESSM
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I see your finger is up quite high in the second shot. Don’t do that.
I don’t get it? Its a torque wrench so it let u know you are at that torque setting???? Whats the question?????
Its like “i boil the kettle but it turns off itself when it’s hit 100C”
Because the head of the wrench is offset from the pivot point you must hold it in the right place, often indicated with a line. And only in that place. Your thumb is almost on top of the pivot.
Dude clearly have no clue what a torque wrench does.
Ps: if you have to exhale like you doing 20 reps of pull up. It surely over the torque of any seat bolt clamp.
The only time i use that much force and breath like that is when i need to remove a crankset.
Small fasteners don’t take much to tighten down ingeneral, the snapping torque for them is pretty low and easily achieved if not giving slight attention. remove the bolt check the threads on both bolt and clamp, make sure everything looks as it should.
5nm isn’t much torque at all. Since it looks like your struggling moving the bolt to tighten the clamp, compared to your seat post clip. You either set the wrench wrong, aren’t realizing you have reached torque, or torque wrench has found its way out of calibration. Assuming threads and installation of clamp checks out okay.