I have this clicking sound in my KH24 when I ride with a bit of power. When I have almost all my weight on the seat there is no sound, but when I put more weight on the pedals, the sound becomes clearer and clearer.
My cranks are very tight, so I have ruled out that, my pedals are tight so if it is something wrong with them it must be inside them.
What can it be:
Wheel needs truing
Bad bearing
Bad pedal
Something else
And something else, the “cap” that is between my crank and frame, almost covering the hole for the bearings. Should this cover it completely so no mud gets in there, because mine doesn’t
I’ve had the same thing, do you feel it through your pedals? I get it sometimes when thrashing over this rough ground when I’m just about stood up the whole time. It’s not really an issue the rest of the time. Grease may be the answer. Or my intitial thought was bearings, but I really have no idea.
Ooh, about the spacer thing, KH posted here a while ago that some of the unis had them on the wrong way around, so take the crank off and flip the spacer around (assuming it’s the weird ‘dish’ shaped spacer?)
I rode with Kris H. last week at Venice and my KH was making horrendous sounds that I wrote off to having Muni’ed through several creeks the previous weekend. Kris thought it was the bearing caps that screw into the bottom of the frame (too tight), but that wasn’t so. I had to do what was suggested earlier on in this post–pull the cranks, clean and grease everything and reassemble–something I hadn’t done in 3 months.
Some folks claim that greasing is not advised, but if you grind through streams et al, like I run into here in the Santa Monica mountains, a little bit of grease can help.
There are several areas that the creaking can come from.
Pedals
Cranks
Bearings
Spokes
If it is a pinging sound as said, it could be the spokes. A creaking sound is likely the splines/cranks. Instead of using grease, try ant-seize. Anti-seize works as a lubricant, but is less likely to be squezed out under pressure.