What have you done to your bike today?

Santapez said:
Did you swap your pedals? I'm assuming you did.
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Swap my pedals? Da faq you talking bout?

Steve Vai said:
It's always the chainring that creaks. 20 out of 10 times.
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After cleaning and regreasing my perfectly good headset and BB, checking the torque on all frame bolts, checking the chainring / power meter was torqued to the crank, cleaning and greasing the seat post clamp, friction paste on the post, I went to clean and regrease the cassette on the free hub, I found the issue. My rear skewer was a little loose. LOL.
I still cleaned and anti seized the cassette on the free hub threads.
 
jShort said:
Swap my pedals? Da faq you talking bout?



After cleaning and regreasing my perfectly good headset and BB, checking the torque on all frame bolts, checking the chainring / power meter was torqued to the crank, cleaning and greasing the seat post clamp, friction paste on the post, I went to clean and regrease the cassette on the free hub, I found the issue. My rear skewer was a little loose. LOL.
I still cleaned and anti seized the cassette on the free hub threads.
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I’ve been chasing a creak on my Allez and after basically rebuilding the bike I found it was the derailleur hanger. It’s always the dumbest shit.
 
Steve Vai said:
I’ve been chasing a creak on my Allez and after basically rebuilding the bike I found it was the derailleur hanger. It’s always the dumbest shit.
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Reminds me of a post I just read on an STI forum:

I have a 2011 STi, 30k kms on the chassis, IAG built motor, G30-770, ETS turbo kit, yadda yadda.

I recently started driving the car again, and had to get the IAG motor because my cosworth one had failed. I decided to upgrade the turbo then from a GT3076 to a G30-660. I had this weird whistling noise when I was driving. The speed shop told me "oh thats just the noise the turbo makes, nothing to be done about it" I talked to a turbo supplier "yeah well it can kinda make that noise because of the compressor housing" "if I go to a larger housing will the noise go away?" "maybe" so I swapped to a G30-770. Noise persisted. I tried a different BOV, adjusting the shit out of that, still, this whistling noise.

I had a diff exhaust fabbed (but I did that for many reasons) trying to track down the source of this whistling noise. It was absolutely ear piercing and was there any time the engine was under load. You could hear it in the cabin, especially if you had the window down. it was very unpleasant. It'd do it briefly on cold start, and always kinda sounded like it was coming from the cold air intake. I tried different air filters to try and muffle it a bit. I replaced my Alternator and PS pump (PS Pump was making a different whining noise) so I quieted down the engine bay a lot, but I was still getting this whistling noise. It was so annoying I didn't even want to drive the car I'd sunk a ton of money into in the last 16 months.

Oh, I also replaced the AOS twice.

So the other day I had a moment of inspiration, and ordered a replacement oil filler cap gasket. It cost $2.

The noise is gone.
 
Been busy this week. Built new wheels (Nextie Xiphias 27.5”x70mm, DT Swiss hubs, Sapim race spokes) complete with grape stems to match the frame logos. Switched out the 12 speed to 10 speed at the same time because personal preference. The original wheels/ tires will get studs for winter use, also when the wide range 12 speed stuff might be needed. Ditched the pink bottle cages for some stainless steel ones, proceeded to lose a full bottle on today’s ride.

Didn’t expect to get one so soon but grabbed a Mastodon comp on close out. Totally understand now why those who have ridden both knock on the Bluto. The fork is set to 120mm travel, I love the feel of it now even more, especially with the slightly taller wheels. First steel trail bike since 1992/93 and very happy with it.
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sundaydoug said:
Reminds me of a post I just read on an STI forum:

I have a 2011 STi, 30k kms on the chassis, IAG built motor, G30-770, ETS turbo kit, yadda yadda.

I recently started driving the car again, and had to get the IAG motor because my cosworth one had failed. I decided to upgrade the turbo then from a GT3076 to a G30-660. I had this weird whistling noise when I was driving. The speed shop told me "oh thats just the noise the turbo makes, nothing to be done about it" I talked to a turbo supplier "yeah well it can kinda make that noise because of the compressor housing" "if I go to a larger housing will the noise go away?" "maybe" so I swapped to a G30-770. Noise persisted. I tried a different BOV, adjusting the shit out of that, still, this whistling noise.

I had a diff exhaust fabbed (but I did that for many reasons) trying to track down the source of this whistling noise. It was absolutely ear piercing and was there any time the engine was under load. You could hear it in the cabin, especially if you had the window down. it was very unpleasant. It'd do it briefly on cold start, and always kinda sounded like it was coming from the cold air intake. I tried different air filters to try and muffle it a bit. I replaced my Alternator and PS pump (PS Pump was making a different whining noise) so I quieted down the engine bay a lot, but I was still getting this whistling noise. It was so annoying I didn't even want to drive the car I'd sunk a ton of money into in the last 16 months.

Oh, I also replaced the AOS twice.

So the other day I had a moment of inspiration, and ordered a replacement oil filler cap gasket. It cost $2.

The noise is gone.
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I was expecting the guys buddy taped a whistle under the car. That would have been amazing.
 
sundaydoug said:
Reminds me of a post I just read on an STI forum:

I have a 2011 STi, 30k kms on the chassis, IAG built motor, G30-770, ETS turbo kit, yadda yadda.

I recently started driving the car again, and had to get the IAG motor because my cosworth one had failed. I decided to upgrade the turbo then from a GT3076 to a G30-660. I had this weird whistling noise when I was driving. The speed shop told me "oh thats just the noise the turbo makes, nothing to be done about it" I talked to a turbo supplier "yeah well it can kinda make that noise because of the compressor housing" "if I go to a larger housing will the noise go away?" "maybe" so I swapped to a G30-770. Noise persisted. I tried a different BOV, adjusting the shit out of that, still, this whistling noise.

I had a diff exhaust fabbed (but I did that for many reasons) trying to track down the source of this whistling noise. It was absolutely ear piercing and was there any time the engine was under load. You could hear it in the cabin, especially if you had the window down. it was very unpleasant. It'd do it briefly on cold start, and always kinda sounded like it was coming from the cold air intake. I tried different air filters to try and muffle it a bit. I replaced my Alternator and PS pump (PS Pump was making a different whining noise) so I quieted down the engine bay a lot, but I was still getting this whistling noise. It was so annoying I didn't even want to drive the car I'd sunk a ton of money into in the last 16 months.

Oh, I also replaced the AOS twice.

So the other day I had a moment of inspiration, and ordered a replacement oil filler cap gasket. It cost $2.

The noise is gone.
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Did the engine blow after changing the oil filler cap gasket?
 
iman29 said:
great color. My friend in the UK has a bunch of bikes from On One he loves them.
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They had a fire in their US warehouse when I was ordering my fat bike. They ended up shutting their US operations afterwards and I had to have it shipped from the UK, but was terrible in shipping charges or wait time
 
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