Great info here.....I just notice some creaky creaks on my Platy while 
riding last weekend.  It's been too wet and chilly for me to get back out 
and check it and it is waiting for me in my garage for diagnosis.  I will 
check all of the above.   Thanks for all the advice.
Kate in New Jersey

On Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 7:01:28 PM UTC-5 philipr...@gmail.com 
wrote:

> Had a lovely evening ride tonight in blissful silence. It was the seat 
> rails!
>
> Thanks for all the great suggestions, not so obvious solution.
>
> On Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 4:13:41 PM UTC-6 spencer robinson wrote:
>
>> I was chasing a creak on my Sam last year, it was driving me nuts, the 
>> creak was on every cycle of the cranks, I pulled the crank arms, checked 
>> the bottom bracket, greased and reinstalled the crank arms, swapped out the 
>> pedals, still creaking. Greased the seatpost.
>> Actually replaced the bottom bracket, creak still thereā€¦.turned out to be 
>> the rear axle moving ever so slightly in the drop-out,. I cleaned and 
>> reinstalled the quick release and the noise was gone. 
>> On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 4:28:18 PM UTC-5 Joe Bernard wrote:
>>
>>> As was advised and you may want to double-check, make sure there's 
>>> grease in the seattube. Of course it may just be a new Brooks breaking in 
>>> (if you have one), those saddles used to drive me crazy until I adopted the 
>>> same position as minor rattles in my car: "Yep, that happens."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 11:31:29 AM UTC-8 philipr...@gmail.com 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Pedals are MKS but already checked and running fine. I have had the 
>>>> shoelace issue before though!
>>>>
>>>> I did the seatpost (which was tight) and the saddle clamp (which wasn't 
>>>> particularly) so will try & get out for a test ride before my positive 
>>>> COVID test from this morning kicks in!
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 1:19:32 PM UTC-6 Patrick Moore wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Now that you mention it, yes, I've had pedals cause this sort of 
>>>>> elusive cadence-related creaking or, in my case, more of a clicking. 
>>>>> In this case it was a pair of ancient Dura Ace SPD pedals, and I 
>>>>> solved the problem by regreasing them (simply unscrewed body from 
>>>>> bearing core, filled bearing space in body with grease, shoved 
>>>>> bearing/spindle core back in and tightened down: Robert 
>>>>> Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury's yer uncle! 
>>>>>
>>>>> One more tangential but wholly not-unrelated incident: I acquired a 
>>>>> sudden, rhythmic "click" while pedaling one particular bike, and could 
>>>>> not find the source. After long fretting, I tripped over the reason: 
>>>>> the aiglet on the slightly too-long lace of my left SPD shoe -- which 
>>>>> I had just started wearing in preference to the Velcro shoes I usually 
>>>>> wore -- was hitting the dt water bottle cage. 
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:48 AM Ryan <ryte...@mts.net> wrote: 
>>>>> > 
>>>>> > or pedals if they're MKS ...had this happen to me twice 
>>>>> > 
>>>>> > On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 12:36:01 PM UTC-6 Patrick Moore 
>>>>> wrote: 
>>>>> >> 
>>>>> >> I know, it seems very unlikely, but I've found bars and seatposts 
>>>>> to cause this sort of creak after long and anguished searches, and much 
>>>>> to 
>>>>> my surprise. 
>>>>> >> 
>>>>> >> 
>>>>> >> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:27 AM Philip Barrett <
>>>>> philipr...@gmail.com> wrote: 
>>>>> >>> 
>>>>> >>> BB was installed by Rivendell and looks to be typical of their 
>>>>> high quality work. 
>>>>> >>> 
>>>>> >>> You know I thought seatpost, then thought...nah...but actually 
>>>>> that does make sense. Hex head in hand now. 
>>>>> > 
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>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>>>
>>>>> Patrick Moore 
>>>>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum 
>>>>>
>>>>

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