New bike, rear wheel has started clicking per revolution after a few rides. Happens under load and when freewheeling so ruling out freehub, cassette or mech.
Have removed thru-axle, re-greased and tightened, no difference.
Spoke tension or wheel bearings perhaps? I've checked the spokes by hand and I can't find any obvious loose ones, but I'll be the first to admit I don't have a sense for these things.
Does it happen in every gear?
Does it happen on a stand (or when upside down on the ground)?
Does it happen with the brake pads removed?
Does it happen in every gear?
Does it happen on a stand (or when upside down on the ground)?
Does it happen with the brake pads removed?
Yes.
No, it needs rider weight to make it happen.
Not tested, but it doesn't sound like the 'Ching-ching-ching' of brake rub.
Is it a press fit BB?
Is it in time with the pedal action or crank revolution (front or back of the bike)?
Saddle rails?
Bars and stem?
Threaded DUB bb.
It happens irrespective of whether the cranks are turning or not.
Not saddle related as standing up changes nothing.
The sound is fairly easy to pinpoint as coming from the rear wheel.
Not bar and stem.
Valve stem?
Loose spoke? (Or rubbing between two spokes)
I didn't think of the valve stem, but I've put on a lock ring and tightened it down, still the same.
At this point I'm still thinking spokes or bearings. None of the spokes feel loose, but maybe I should just add a 1/4 turn of tension round the wheel and see if that helps.
Given that is started after the first section of rough single track I rode, it seems more likely that something has worked loose.
Just a few minutes ago someone pulled up next to me to lock his bike outside Tesco, there was a massive great screw sticking out his rear tyre! He said he wondered what the clicking had been...
Was that you OP?
Derailleur cable end hitting the spokes?
The button of the jacket that you tied around your waist hitting the rim? (It's happened to me!)
If it's Maxxis tyres, and doing the fashionable thing of fitting the biggest possible tyres that will fit, then a stone stuck in the side knobbles that's hitting the chain stay.
Couldn't manage a single ride without having to stop and find the offending clicky stone.
Solved that by fitting unfashionably skinny 2.2 fast rolling instead of 2.3 rear tyre that also has the side knobbles a smidge further apart.
I had this with a wheelset and it was a small metal support inside the rim where the joint was welded opposite the valve. Apparently it is there to align the rim whilst being welded. Shoved some silicone down a spoke hole and all is good.
I was going to say valve stem as that was what was making a noise on my front wheel. I tried everything inc new bearings.
Had a similar thing recently on a new bike and it was driving me mad. Turned out to be the little bobbly bits that stick out of the sidewalls on new tyres hitting the chainstay protector 🙄
I’ve the same problem, so I’m interested to know if you solve it. Please 🙏 keep us updated 😀
I had this with a wheelset and it was a small metal support inside the rim where the joint was welded opposite the valve.
I've also had this on a Bonty wheel.
I could make it click by weighting the wheel and rolling it slowly.
Every time the joint rotated across the ground it clicked.
Also cured with silicon.
What i can think of is spoke rubbing,check if the spoke tension is enough,nomarally rear drive side should be 120-130kgf.
Did some closer inspection and as a few of you have suggested, it is the joint in the rim that seems to be the issue. Slowly rolling back and forwards with the joint on the ground produces the click every time.
Issue now is getting the stock Panaracer Firesports off, they seem to tighten their grip like the face-hugger in Alien every time you touch them.
Got the tire off at the cost of snapped lever. Is the idea that I stick some silicone lube in there to ease the metal on metal action or are we talking silicone sealant to create a pseudo-rubber wedge between the sleeved sections of the rim?
I used a no nails type adhesive. I put a dollop on a bent coat hanger and inserted into spoke hole. I didn't want to increase the weight too much 😁
Cheers, after posting I watched a couple of videos and had a crack at it. There were a couple of very weak indentations where they had obviously punched the inner rim to secure the sleeve. I've re-punched those points, plus added a couple more, then shot some superglue into the gap between each surface (accessible through the spoke holes).
Tire is back on at low pressure for now to allow the glue to go off, then will pump it back up and see what happens.
I just used sealer again in through the spoke holes either side.
Hope you got it sorted else you will be needing some new tyre leavers !
Shoe laces ends hitting the crank arms?
