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The creaking from the seat-tube/qr is getting me down.
I've always had issues - instead of making it a sensible standard size it they are non-standard with a shallow shim on the outside [Damn you Brant].
I've used finish line carbon assembly paste, swapped to a hope qr, greased the surfaces of the shim and qr, checked the bolts on the saddle. No joy.
It is a clicking sound. Much worse when seat-post at ride height extension. If lower, not an issue. I have a lay-back post which probably adds more leverage to it. It clicks on forward=backward movements - say getting up out of the saddle and sitting back down.
Any thoughts?
I had a Ragley Td1 that did this.
Best I could do was to buy a chunky salsa collar, tighten up with bolt then squeeze lever over.
Maybe used a bit of coppergrease too. Risky cranking it as much as I did.
The creak/tick eventually came back. Rinse and repeat.
Carbo grip spray cured all the creaks on my niner sir 9 (and trust me there were a lot!)
Yeah,
Usually seat coller area.
I found the Hope q/r made it worse!
Maybe try a different post with a standard bolt up seat coller.
I found the Thomson coller very good as creates less stress.
Also grease round top of seattube under coller and a good dose of carbon paste inside seattube.
Thanks,
Max
Double bolt seat clamp?
Thomson post?
I had a head come loose on my ragley post, didn't come off but spun on the top. Possibly the source of creaking my? Shame as it was a nice price and nice post
had the same problem some time ago (on the second frame..) and solved it with a customized salsa clamp...
(put it on the lathe and machined it to the right size..)
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