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Re: New kh20 squeaking ? strange noise

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  1. what's so hard about getting a shifter and tightening the spokes? no
    need for paying anyone money to do a monkeys job, and no spesh tools
    needed... maybe just a bit more patience when using a shifter. my pos
    ebay uni used to make a bad groan groan groan with each revolution and
    all it took was a small shifter, some time, my fingers to squeeze each
    spoke and test how much give it had and tighten as necessary... then
    yes ofcourse spin the wheel and check it's alignment and adjust the
    necessary spokes to bring the wheel back to center.

    dude just get your uni, flip it over, and squeeze pairs of spokes with
    your hand and see if they move. if they clearly do then there's atleast
    A problem there, and as a few have said probably THE problem. takes
    like 10 seconds to check them all and see if anythings funky or not!

    DOO EEET!!!

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  2. what's a shifter?

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  3. Noise on KH unicycles can be a problem, *IF *noise worries you. Usually
    this is not a problem mechanically. Check that you have some grease on
    the splines. Spokes can be properly tensioned but still creak. They
    won't break but can annoy you. Just learn to ride and accept weird
    noises 🙂 Check that everything is generally tight (not overdone).

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  4. I'm guessing, but it's USA wrench, UK spanner, and down under a
    shifter.

    And enough with the "take it to the LBS shop" advice , OK ? Do you
    really think we are so stupid that we don't know that we can pay people
    at bike shops to fix our wheels ?

    Buy a spoke wrench, read a little bit, and figure it out. It's like
    rubic's cube, except 100 times easier, and you got to learn to do it,
    whereas you can blow off rubics cube, and not be so lame. Get a shifter
    !

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