Steering 'noise'

Paul Davis

I am getting a strange, but quite loud, 'noise' (a sort of cross between a
slightly tinny creak and a ping) intermitently when steering the bike. It is
intermitent and usually appears only after some time of riding, it's most
frequent when making short, sharp turns but can occur when just making
normal steering corrections when cycling straight.

It's particularly difficult to replicate off the bike although I can
occassionally do so by turning the bars to their extremes.

Using my rather limited mechanical knowledge I've done what I can to
eliminate it by tightening up the stem bolts. There is no play in the
headset which is also silky smooth. The LBS, who built the bike up for me,
have had a play around but have been unable to replicate the problem.

Although the noise appears to come from the stem/headset area I did wonder
whether turning the bars might cause a bit of flex in the rims causing
spokes to rub again eachother but spoke tension is fine.

I was wondering whether anyone might have any ideas?
Thanks,
PJay

Dan Daniel

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:30:57 +0000 (UTC), "Paul Davis"
<pjay.davis@btopenworld.com> wrote:


>
>I was wondering whether anyone might have any ideas?
>Thanks,
>PJay
>
>

I had a strange noise from the front that was caused by the metal
ferrule on the brake cable housing moving around inside a stop on the
top tube near the head tube. Greasing the ferrule made it go away. And
another bike gets a 'rattle' on bumps from the bar end shifter cables
crossing the bottom of the head tube. Check out the various cables up
front?

ZeeExSixAre

> I was wondering whether anyone might have any ideas?
> Thanks,
> PJay

If you have one, check your computer mount on the leg and the magnet in the
spokes.
--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

Nick Payne

Paul Davis wrote:
> I am getting a strange, but quite loud, 'noise' (a sort of cross between a
> slightly tinny creak and a ping) intermitently when steering the bike. It is
> intermitent and usually appears only after some time of riding, it's most
> frequent when making short, sharp turns but can occur when just making
> normal steering corrections when cycling straight.
>
> It's particularly difficult to replicate off the bike although I can
> occassionally do so by turning the bars to their extremes.
>
> Using my rather limited mechanical knowledge I've done what I can to
> eliminate it by tightening up the stem bolts. There is no play in the
> headset which is also silky smooth. The LBS, who built the bike up for me,
> have had a play around but have been unable to replicate the problem.
>
> Although the noise appears to come from the stem/headset area I did wonder
> whether turning the bars might cause a bit of flex in the rims causing
> spokes to rub again eachother but spoke tension is fine.
>
This can be nothing be than the brake/shifter cables creaking when you
turn the bars.

Nick