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That one weird click from my bottom bracket took me 6 months and 3 bike shops to figure out
Honestly, I started hearing this faint click every time I pushed hard on the pedals, and it drove me up the wall for half a year. I brought my commuter to a shop in Portland and they said it was my cleats, so I dropped $40 on new ones and the noise stayed. Then another guy told me it was the seat post, so I greased that thing like crazy and still heard it on my ride to work every morning. I swapped pedals, checked my chainring bolts, even replaced the rear wheel bearings because someone on a forum swore that was it. Ngl, I was about ready to just live with it forever. Turns out it was the bottom bracket cups, which were slightly loose and had dried out, and a mechanic at a tiny shop in Beaverton found it in about 10 minutes. Took me 6 months of guessing and around $120 in random parts to fix a problem that cost $15 to solve. Has anyone else chased a tiny noise for way too long and felt like a total idiot after?
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