Greetings, Turns out Jim's thinking was spot on. Today the mating call occurred again despite having re lubed the bottom bracket and pedals. Today took the wheel out and removed freewheel to get to inside of hub. Dried out elephant snot was found. Cleaned and re lubed. Now when I coast, it is absolutely silent! I was told that this should be done every 30 hours of riding! So I was just around 2000 hours past due. Oh, well- ride & learn.
Cheers, Chris On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:27 AM, zrainryder <zdree...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Upon the last 10 miles of a 3 day excursion with quite a bit of > climbing, my bike emitted a loud sound that sounded like an elephant > mating call. At first I thought it was the front wheel. The bike > makes the sound when going 15 mph+ and when coasting or when pedaling > backwards at that speed. Otherwise it sounds serendipitously. I now > suspect that the cause is in the bottom bracket. I'm using Sugino > cranks with a Tange bottom bracket which has around 5,000 miles on > it. I have not performed service to it of any kind. Any thoughts or > suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks, Chris. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
