[Closed] What causes vibration through the bars?

Have you put a calliper adaptor in when you shouldn’t have!?

The adapter is a 40pm for a 2015 pike with a 200mm disc.

And just to add it’s not when braking it can be when riding along the flat.

Sorry, I was referencing my own stupidity at the weekend, see braking vibrations thread.

Have you checked the axle is tight? Or is sitting correctly in the dropouts?

tyre seated correctly? All stem bolts tight? Headset tight?

Haha, nope not that.

I think everything’s tight, will check the axle.  Interestingly it is also a pro 2 evo.

Someone else  was saying that the free hub bearings can get stick and cause back pedalling problems, that might case vibrations, could they be coming from the back?

i can’t remember what thread that was on

The back are fine, they were done pretty recently, the front hasn’t been touched and is around 4 years old.

Is you bar cracked? Someone who knows what they are talking about will be along in a minute.

I don’t think so, going to give it a good check over.

My experience of vibration and creaking through the bars is that it usually comes down to unevenly tightened stem face plate bolts. Slack them all and clean the surfaces, then do them up slowly and evenly building up clamp force diagonally and around - as if you were fitting a cylinder head or anything else you expected to end up perfectly flat...

There you go!

Hmm I think i’ve Fiddled with that recently, I’ll take a look. Cheers!

The vibration is coming from a source that moves, so its either a brake issue (rotor, pad, calliper) or a tyre issue (bulge, lump, tread, bead, dried up sealant) or a bearing issue (half seized, loose) or a failed frame / linkage etc.

Loose bolts don't cause the vibration, they move in response to it.  Clean them and torque them up by all means, but don't stop there.  Look for the cause and address that, not the symptoms.