Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
Thanks. I have never hear the clanking before on any bike. Quite disconcerting.
In the 42 years I've been taking racing bikes apart and putting them back together again, (usually without anything left over), I have seen great improvements in the cycle engineering of standard parts: hidden cables, indexed gears, clip-in pedals, cassettes instead of freewheels, straight-pull spokes, gear levers in the brakes, lots & lots more gears etc.

Sadly, it hasn't all been progress in the right direction, and bottom brackets and wheel bearings, (and it always seems to be the rear wheel), now have a habit of making strange noises after a relatively short amount of use.