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- From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: Pinging noise
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.015129.25018@kestrel.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:51:29 GMT
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- In article <727984935.AA00305@f262.n620.z3.fidonet.org> ben.elliston@p1.f262.n620.z3.fidonet.org (ben elliston) writes:
- >Has anyone ever worked out what that pinging noise is when your weight is over a front wheel? It sounds like spokes shifting.
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
- >Cheers, Ben
- >
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- Check the roughness of the front bearing.
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- If it's bad enough than the hub winds up as it momentarily hangs up on the axle
- and then releases a millisecond later. The noise would sound like spokes
- twanging because the spokes are the only things that have enough air contact
- for their noise characteristics to be heard.
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- This is just a guess. However, it's an easily testable one.
-
- -dk
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