On 2018-01-05 13:52, Emanuel Berg wrote:
Joerg wrote:

If the steerer bearings creak they are shot,
need to be replaced.

Yes, but is that the only possible source of
the noise?


In practice yes. In theory you could also have the fork tube rubbing
inside the steerer tube but that would require one or both steerer
bearings to have completely failed and disintegrated. In that case the
whole front end slacks back and forth in the steering and I would not
ride one more foot on that bike.

Assuming you guys have checked other obvious stuff such as mud guards or
other things rubbing against the downtube. Oh, and if studded tires are
mounted lift the wheel before doing the noise test :-)

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Regards, Joerg

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