Crank Shafted

Well, the bike is back in the shop.

Again.

On a positive note, the bike has almost been re-assembled. I am pretty sure the guy who assemblend the bike didn’t do a stellar job.

But I finally have a bike mechanic I trust on the job. And we are slowly working out all the issues.

Last night, I took the bike in to get the annoying clicking sound coming from the right pedal addressed. Every rotation, on the down stroke – “click, click, click, click”.

Every freaking time.

There was no sneaking up on anyone in my bike.

You could hear me from miles away.

It got worse on my 100 mile ride last week. Almost to the point when I wanted to scream.

I thought it had something to do with the new pedals b/c the sound became more pronounced when the speed-play pedals were installed.

But no.

Last night, me and the bike mechanic started working through the problems.

Not the shoes

Not the pedals

Not the bearing – although there was an excessive amount of grease built up on the bearing.

Apparently, my bike has a faulty crank shaft. It was loose when there shouldn’t be any give.

So I am going to get a new crank shaft on the bike.

Hopefully that will solve the problem.

We’ll just have to wait and see.