Echoing lum gim fong: Check each and all components. Might be cracked. Maybe even the bb shell/chainstay/downtube area. I had a creaking sound coming from the bb area of my Surly Cross-Check. Finally found it: Relatively loose square taper bb (Velo-Orange). Once I even had about-to-be cracked chainring bolts on my mountain bike crankset! They were those stupid-light alloy types (FSA-brand IIRC). Immediately replaced with steel.
As far as loosening/tightening, lum gim fong I think is referring to this: Shimano or Park make them. They work pretty well. BTW: I realize grease is probably perfectly fine (I used it for almost all threads up til now) but I recently switched to Finish Line Anti-Seize. I switched when I was building up two Divide bikes (his and hers) early last year.....the torque range for the chainring bolts on the Shimano SLX crankset were quite high, at least in my opinion. That being said I didn't want to have future problems replacing the chainrings. Ooops, now I just jinxed myself!!! Good luck! Jeff On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 3:21:59 PM UTC-8, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > Sugino cranks and those fiddly, hard to tighten, hard to loosen chainring > bolts. I’m swapping chainrings to play with fixed gear inches (loving 71” > after fifty miles of riding) and range possible between high and low gears. > I lube things well with Paul grease. > > Ideas for making this job easier? Ideas for tightening chainring bolts and > still being able to get them apart? > > I’m wondering if White Industries Square Taper Road Cranks might be the > way to go when it’s time to replace my cranks. Experience with them? > > With abandon, > Patrick > > www.CredoFamily.org > www.MindYourHeadCoop.org -- 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.
