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I have an anoying creak on the front end of my bike and it's driving me mad.
I have a carbon Devinci Spartan with pike forks, carbon stem spacers, Renthal carbon bars and apex stem.
Today I swapped stem spacers, bars and stem for aluminium and cleaned and greased headset all torqued to the recommended setting and the noise is still there.
It happens when I compress the front forks, also when I pull on the bars but the most annoying is when traveling over rough ground.
Any ideas what to try next???
It may be the CSU on the pikes. Take the wheel off upside down and hold the bars with your feet..then wiggle
Saddle rails (where they meet with the plastic of the saddle) and cable entry points to the frame (for internal routing) have both caused creaks for me. Â A quick squirt of WD40 every so often cures this.
headsets can be a source of the most annoying creaks. Not sure of your frame design, but if you've ruled out the other things I would seriously consider checking the cups for fit. On an old frame of mine i had this issue and could only resolve it with loctite 641 bearing retainer.
Cheers folks I will investigate.
Was just about to start a thread about this very thing!
Have just stripped/cleaned/greased the BB and headset on my Bossnut V1 and still have the fekking  annoying creak when I pedal, and not sure what to try next!
I share your madness robidoo
Saddle rails have often been to blame when I thought it was crank, bottom bracket or cassette/hub.
Easy to test.
Greased my maxel today and torqued my air chamber top cap and its loads better.
Tried the upside down wheel out wiggle but no noise present, what I did notice was my outer cables tapping together on the rough ground so will sort that later.
Cheers for the tips, good luck crazyjenkins.
The little wedge that locks the aheadset up caused mine,I put grease on the steerer where it sits & it solved my creak that sounded like I'd cracked my carbon frame !
Could be your knees. How old are you?
You need to think laterally to work out where it is - the fact that compressing the forks causes the creak to happen doesn’t mean the forks are the root cause.  I had a similar thing which seemed to happen when compressing the suspension.  Turned out to be the rear brake mounting...
Bottom bracket was the cause of mine, back to stealth mode now 😎