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My new chainset arrived on time as expected and I have to say, excellent service from chainreaction. Will defiantly be ordering from there again.

So here is where the fun begins. Now if any of you read my other Post with the issue that I had little to no thread inside my crank, making it near impossible to pull my crank off, well this issue just got a whole lot worse. This time I tried to pull it off it striped all of the thread leaving with no thread for the crank puller to grip onto making it impossible for me to remove the crank.

Just places an order for a new crank for my bike after the last incident with tightening up the bottom bracket.

The crank set I ordered is a Downhill RaceFace Diabolus Chainset
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=4191

You may be thinking why a downhill chainset when I rally don’t to down hilling.
Of course it will add unnecessary extra weight to my bike the total weight for the Bottom Bracket rings and crank at a  1197g , but am willing to leave with that.

The model designed for all style mountain biking was only 245 Grams lighter then the Downhill chain set, but the downhill chainset is a lot stronger. And since I have a habit of bashing my chainset of rocks I thought I might as well get one stronger then I need.

I was thinking of trying to compensate the weight by trying to lighten up the load by upgrading other components on my bike, such as forks and handlebars

I have been getting this knocking noise when I pedal for a while and I have not really done anything about it until it started getting worse. So on Friday, I decided I’ve had enough.

I have asked a few people of what the problem could be. I was 90% sure it was my bottom bracket as that’s where the sound seemed to come from.

Most of the people I asked said it sounded like a loose bottom bracket and is most likely to be that but I should try to eliminate the other possibilities first, such as the pedals or crank.

Not knowing how to remove the bottom bracket, as I have never done it before and not having all tools, I asked Matthew to give me a hand.

This weeks Sunday morning ride was a short but good ride around Haworth and Stanbury, we set off from Andy’s house just after 9:10 riding up Mytholmes Lane, then right at the top on to North Street/West Lane, this was a bit of a slog for me, seemed to be having an off day. We took the left fork onto Cemetery Road and cycled to the end and turn right down the hill (41mph) then across the top of the dam then turned left on to Sun Lane and up the hill to Stanbury, once through Stanbury we turn left onto a single track lane (Back Lane), after about half a mile the road turned into a dirt track which we continued on for a further mile at this point we turned left through a gate and completely off road down the hill to the stone bridge at Bronte Falls. We crossed the bridge and climbed the other side till we reach the track that lead us back to cemetery Road and then retraced our run back to Andy’s house, 5.8 miles in total.

Now will probably be a good time to mention my new toy, I’ve got a Sporty cam to video our outings, this being the first one, there was plenty of learning, hopefully they’ll get better as we get more practice, but for now here’s our first one please remember to use the right click and save target rather then just clicking on the link

Small Video 19mb

Haworth Photos Available Here