Mountain Bike Headset Clicking

It s time to look at your headset.

Mountain bike headset clicking. Is your bike making a creak or click but you re not sure where it s coming from. Jon takes a look at six things that could be causing your noisy bike and what you can do to sort it. Mountain bike maintenance duration. Attila a hungarian now living in switzerland wrote about a clicking noise he figured out my bike was making clicking noises when i was out of the saddle or pushing the pedals hard while seated the noise had no relation to crankarm position or cadence simply when putting pressure on the crankarms the bike made approximately 1 5 clicking noises in some random pattern.

Results 1 to 10 of 10. It s a chris king ti headset on a moots ti cinco frame bike shop seems to think it s just locktight needed in the headset. And make sure they are correctly torqued. This is more noticed in steering but if the headset is over tightened enough it may click into place.

Check for a loose headset by placing your bike on the ground engaging the front brake and rocking the bike front to back. The bike has been great so far but there is an annoying clicking creaking sound that comes from the headset or the fork which is not the stock blue alternator fork but a gloss black aftermarket alternator fork when the trail gets bouncy or when i am pedaling hard and get some side to side swaying. Get the latest mountain bike reviews news race results and much more by signing up for the mtbr newsletter. Seeing as you have changed the stem and bars i would suspect the noise is coming from this area though.

If your bike is creaking and clicking at the front end this is the video for you. This occurs when the ball bearings usually in the lower race wear evenly spaced dents into the bearing surface of the lower frame cup. Headset sizing and standards the external cups are called this way for the simple reason that the bearings are situated outside the bike s headtube respectively at its ends. The other two types enable the housing of the bearings within the head tube the two being different in the sense that the integrated standard doesn t use cups at all therefore requiring a specially designed frame.

How to fix a rattling bike headset. Headset bolts can loosen over time resulting in wobbly steering and rattling noise. Another headset issue that may be causing your clicking is indexing or brinneling. Clicking sound or popping sound from headset.

Hold the front brake and rock the bike back and forth see if there is any play in the headset. Undo all the bolts perhaps dab some copperslip on them before tightening.