I use leather washers/strips between metal on metal contact points. I ride 42mm hetres and honjo fenders. My bike is silent. It only speaks momentarily when I bear down hard on the pedals because I shifted too late.
Marc in Calgary. '07 Wilbury in Saluki silver. > On May 13, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Jeff Lesperance <jeff.lespera...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm looking for suggestions as to how you all have managed to quell: > > 1. Rattles from the zipper pulls of your Sackville Shopsacks as they sit in > your front basket and they get bounced around as you traverse uneven ground. > I resorted to singing out loud (a bit louder than normal) which was good for > me but appeared to irk those exposed to the untuned cacophony. > > 2. Squeaks from your wald basket zip-tied to your front rack - the metal on > metal likes to chirp on occasion and my previously mentioned solution of > singing and/or singing louder is not a preferred long-term solution. > > I'm considering an inelegant small wrapping of electric tape on the zipper > pulls and considering bits of an old tube wrapped around the contact points > of the rack. > > -Jeff > Silver Spring, MD > -- > 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. -- 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.