Noises...

fred_oakley said:

So... Ever since I got my custom unicycle put together, I've heard some
odd noises come out of it. It's always made a noise like something is
loose, and rattling around, but I check, and everything seems fairly
tight. Sometimes there's a creaking sound when I pedal with my left
crank. My Bedford trials frame moves back and forth (horizontally) on
my Koxx ISIS hub about a centimeter or two.

Do I have any real problems, or is any of this normal?

any pictures of the uni?

also, you might be missing a spacer or two.

if pedals are loose they make a rattly sound. sometimes they will move
a little on the spindle too.

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Spencer said:

well, at least I'm not drinking my own blood, I only drink other
people's blood...

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One one of my koxx hubs the bearings don't crimp to the axle and the
spacers that it comes with don't do anything because they arent long
enough to touch the bearing and crank at the same time. So any frame I
put on there would rattle back and forth.

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Spencer Hochberg said:

One one of my koxx hubs the bearings don't crimp to the axle and the
spacers that it comes with don't do anything because they arent long
enough to touch the bearing and crank at the same time. So any frame I
put on there would rattle back and forth.

Sounds like a quality product to me!

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mscalisi said:

We only need one 36" rim, one that doesn't suck. A properly sized KH rim
(like the 29er only larger) would be awesome.

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Spencer Hochberg said:

One one of my koxx hubs the bearings don't crimp to the axle and the
spacers that it comes with don't do anything because they arent long
enough to touch the bearing and crank at the same time. So any frame I
put on there would rattle back and forth.

So that's not a real big problem then?

mornish said:

any pictures of the uni?

also, you might be missing a spacer or two.

if pedals are loose they make a rattly sound. sometimes they will move
a little on the spindle too.

I tighten my pedals about ever other ride, so that's not what's
rattling. I tightened some spokes today, and that seemed to help the
creaking, but I didn't ride it for a while afterward. I'll check if
that just fixed everything tomorrow. What are spacers?

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thats a cool uni you got there.

spacers are liek little shims that seperate the hub and the frame and
the cranks.

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argh my new uni is creaking too, that seems to be going around
lately.....

maybie the spokes are loose?

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ah ok my cranks were loose....
tightend em up and i think its ok now...

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hmm the pedals seem to be loose as well, that was mostly what was making
the noise with my uni, not sure how to fix em....

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