Ted, Did you use talcum powder on the inner tube when you mounted the tire? It occurs to me that you might have tire-tube friction producing the "squeaking." (I have a similar problem with the custom orthotics "squeaking" inside my shoes: a liberal does of talc immediately silences the shoe squeak.)
Jon Spangler Alameda, CA USA On Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 3:52:12 PM UTC-8, ted wrote: > > thanks for the advice folks. It does seem to be the front fender (p45 > longboard) contacting the tire. There are tell tale signs of rubbing, and > when I adjusted it further from the tire it reduced but did not eliminate > the noise. I have another bike with the same sort of fender and compass > 38mm tires that doesn't squeak but does have tell tale signs of rubbing > that I think date from before I changed that bike to the current tires. I > had changed the fender mounting hardware on that bike before going to the > compass tires. I'll probably redo the front fender on my SO in a similar > manner this weekend. Hopefully that will completely eliminate that very > annoying squeaking. > > Once again thanks to you all for the help, oh and Bill I think you > understated that probability by at lest a few hundredths of a percent. > > > On Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 1:15:40 PM UTC-8, Garth wrote: >> >> >> Well, I have saddles that squeak like that so sure, anything with >> rubber/plastic why not. You could simply deflate the tire and check the >> seating and re-inflate and see if makes any difference. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
