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  1. #1
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    Apr 2006
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    I know I should take it to my LBS but I HATE having to go there for everything. I wish I were more knowledgeable. But I guess knowledge comes with experience and until I experience all of these things I won't know. Ahhh...a metaphor for the circle of life.
    As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." ~Benjamin Franklin

  2. #2
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    Apr 2006
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    Although DH is confident that his bike is sound after more than one of those large cracking noises, his new bike will have a steel fork.
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  3. #3
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Location
    WA State
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    My carbon frame has some minor BB creak. LBS reassured me that the noise is harmless and that I only need to pursue it if it is driving me crazy. It scared me at first, since if the BB was loose it could ruin my frame.
    "Sharing the road means getting along, not getting ahead" - 1994 Washington State Driver's Guide

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  4. #4
    Join Date
    Jan 2004
    Location
    San Diego
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    not sure what you ride, but PLEASE get it checked at your LBS! If it CF you may not SEE the crack... I had a friend how had a minor crash... checked the bike and didn't see anything... continued riding.... and the seatpost BROKE OFF... her saddle just fell off the bike while she was still rolling... I don't know HOW she kept from getting cut up! We were doing the CoolBreeze Century and were 58 miles in...
    There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness".

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Location
    San Francisco, CA
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    My carbon bikes don't creak at all. However, my titanium cyclocross bike drives me nuts! It's a breakaway, and I can't figure out if it's that or something else but it creaks like crazy under load (climbing on a mtn bike trail).

    I hate creaks!

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
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    Just to mention, when I can, I try to take my bike to the LBS when I can stay and watch what they do. Fortunately, they don't care if I sit and watch and ask dumb questions. They even let me behind the counter.

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    Illinois
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    Maybe it was something in the computer set up, and not structural?

 

 

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