What Should the tire look like....

Sounds like your description of what's happening during compression is
bang on. The actuall pressure, and what the tire looks like during both
riding and hopping depends on your preference for a harder or softer
tire. Weight is a factor also.

As to the click, what type of cranks do you have? They might just be
loose enough to move a bit, and only clicks once because you are
pushing in one direction during hopping. When you ride, you put some
force in the opposit direction, pushing the crank back, making it click
the next time you hop. This is just a guess, clicks can come from a
variety of place.

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yeah, well i have been reading up, and it seems tire presure is all at
the riders decision...no one seems to agree LOL....i'll try different
stuff and be prepared to break somthing and find whats best for me 🙂

As for the cranks, yeah what you described is what i think it happening
too....i need to check the cranks to see if they are tight, hopefully
someone around my college has an allen wrench set. thanks for the
help guys 🙂 Oh, as for what cranks they are...they are the KH Onza
cranks (127mm)

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Dont Ride Tighten Your Cranks Up

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Mikefule said:

If regularly pulling on a body part made it longer, most teenage boys
would trip over a lot more often.

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the clicking could be spokes... but its a pain to check ... you have to
go to every place the spokes cross and sqeeze the spokes together so
that they move, but make sure you don't bend the spokes and don't
tighten the spokes unless you know what youre doing ... take it to a
bike shop

and if it is the cranks listen to dan de man and tighten them before
you ride again ... get yourself some allen wrenches

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j5isalive said:

Ok heres my question,

Also another unrelated thing...when i am hopping i will hear a click,
and then it goes away....then i will let the pedals go a full rotation
then hop again and then it will click again when i hop. But it only
clicks once...but after i ride a little and hop again it will click
once. I'm not sure if this is a loose spoke, or crank related, or
pedal related...theres no reflectors on the pedals so it can't be
that... So that has me a little confused.

John

the same thing happends to my kh/onza hub 140mm, if i do jump on it
then rotate wheel 180 then jump on it again it makes a click...
I have the EXACT same thing, i tryied tighting my cranks and nothing
happened, and i am 97% sure it isnt the spokes. i want to know how to
solve this too, mine have been doing this since i got them which was
about 1 month ago.

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i've done my research...and there is a thread in the Product reviews
section thats from about 2 months ago....it seems most everyone has the
click problem......

it real weird....crappy. I'm gonna take my cranks off, clean, and
regrease and see if that does anything...but from what i have read it
won't and the sound will just return. maybe i will take it by UDC when
i go home, they are about 20 minutes away from me, i'll see what they
have to say. I think i'm gonna just end up living with it.

John

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is it only the kh/onza ones?? or is it all splined hubs??

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seems to be only the KH onza hubs and cranks....my thoughts on it is
that the tolerance between the spins on the cranks and the axle are
different which allow a sligth amount of movement that create the
click...you ack enough grease in there and it will eliminate the room
the crank has to move.... but this is just a theory i have yet to get
in there and measure the splines with calipers....

John

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The crank click basicly comes hand in hand with splined cranks. If it
annoys you, get some anti-seize from your local automotive supplier,
and spread it on the splines. It usually takes care of the click.

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thanks for the response...i will see how that helps the problem. When i
went to walmart tonight for a simple function calc (damn accounting
prof is making us use one for the final and all i have is a ti-89) i
tried to buy some allen wrenchs but it seems walmarts tool section is
very limited...i will go to Home Depot tomorrow. I wish i was home
where i have a full set of allen wrenchs... oh well i don't see it
costing more than 10 bucks for a decent set of metric wrenchs.

John

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madmattunipro said:

The crank click basicly comes hand in hand with splined cranks. If it
annoys you, get some anti-seize from your local automotive supplier,
and spread it on the splines. It usually takes care of the click.

is it bad for the uni if we dont use anti-sieze?? or is it just if it
annoys you? cuz the reason i dont like it is cuz i tink i am wrecking
my hub... if i know it isnt bad then i dont care.

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