Originally Posted by
MSchott
Here’s an update. I followed most of your suggestions. Tightened the cleats, lubed and tightened the pedals, chainrings and other driveline components. Made sure the FD cable was out of the way. Checked the seatpost and more.
Problem is is still there. It doesn’t show until after about 10 miles but it’s still there. It’s more prominent under heavier load and relatedly up hills. The sound is between a creak and a click and is worse as the load increases like in the big ring, 13 tooth sprocket. Any more thoughts?
Did you try 1-legged cycling?
Does the click occur at the same point in the clock relative to the pedal positions, and if it is, does it change if you change gears ? Or is it completely random when the noise occurs?
To fully eliminate pedal/cleat possibility, you could swap in some platform pedals and see what happens.