Why does my bike make a clicking sound when I am not pedaling?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I had the opportunity to cut open a rear hub and show you how it works.
It is a commonly asked question on why your bicycle makes a ticking noise when you are coasting and I hope the video helps explain why.
Let me know what you think in the comments below
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It's so cool how anyone can just view and learn about things like this on TH-cam for free from people like you that have taken the time to both show and explain all of this. I guess that makes me sound like an "old head" but seriously this was an excellent explanation and demonstration of how the clicking sound happens, what goes on and the design behind it. I have loved bicycling for years both casual and on a road bike and it amazes me how complex a seemingly simple bicycle is. I can't believe there are actually people that gave you a thumbs down on this video. I think you did a great job! Thanks!!!
Glad I could help you
Agreed
What was you born yesterday. Some people were born with computers so its weird for you to come here with your prehistoric competence🤦🏾🤦🏾
As a mechanic in the bike industry thank you for this video i know how these work and how to work on then but i cannot explain it to people you did a great job explaining the details for people to understand bravo!!!!
Thank you for explaining that two identical bikes can sound differently. That's exactly what I have. One is almost silent, the other clicks very noticeably. I was afraid there was something wrong with the clicking one. Thank you for the great explanation!
I personally love the sound and I'm glad I know the what/why/how behind it. Thank you!
Nice!
Me too I love the noise and the new bike I got now is not doing it lol so I need to investigate like he said maybe to much grease but anyway very good explanation 👍
It take real skill to explain a subject so well and to have people listen to the whole video. Thank you.
*God knows how much love I have for that freehub calming sound*
I'm gonna change my perspective of the sound thanks to you! I have a lot of hearing sensitivity and all I could focus on was each click being so loud, I never thought of it as calming but realized, you know, I can change it to that through associations with music, feelings, and words. Riding always feels so freeing.
Best explanation of this mechanism I’ve ever seen. Better than any animations and with the close-ups it’s really easy to understand. Really nice work!
Glad you liked it
Thank you for the great explanation. I kinda knew what the mechanism was but it’s so great to see it inside out in detail like you explained! Keep up the great work! Thanks
Excellent explanation, James. Thank you so much.
Glad you it helped you
Thx James!! I glad you clarified that because I was literally grabbing my keys to the car to go and return the bike I just bought 👍
Glad I could help!
LMAO...
Lolll
Excellent. Thank you for this. Been riding bikes for 40 years and could not answer the question when a good friend asked me "what is that clicking sound". Now I know and so will my friend.
Nice, glad to solve the mystery!
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Thanks James. Just bought a new bike that clicks, whereas my others never have. Now I understand why!
I literally felt like I was going crazy trying to find out what was wrong with my bike dude, thank you a lot for this vid
A very good explanation of the hub and how it actually works. Thanks, James for sharing your knowledge with a novice.
Thank you, great video! I originally wanted to get rid of the sound somehow but when I saw some ppl find it calming, I decided I'll do my best to make it calming for me too since it's supposed to happen, and there's really no way around it. I like the free feeling of riding so I'll connect that sound to it😊
Great easy to understand video. You answered my question!
I was just wondering what’s happening mechanically when you coast on a bike! Not something you think about often but interesting. Good explanation.
Glad to help!
Thank you James, your explanation and visual demonstration made perfect sense! Ride on!
Glad to educate
Clear explanation James, I have been searching for working principle of a freewheel, your video gave me the best results. Thumbs up
Glad it helped
Thanks for the info. I was ready to take my bike back as my brand new mongoose had the click noise and my old Diamondback had none.
I have a Diamondback I just bought and it doesn't make the click. Is this normal?
I am 58, all these years and now I know how the noise happends. Thanks bike guy a million
Thank you for the explanation for my 7 year old son to learn the mechanics! Him and I enjoyed it!
This helped me a lot. I thought there was something wrong with my rear wheel! Thank you!
Awesome video, I can't imagine a better way to explain it. Gracias!
That is awfully kind of you
And am now smarter than I was when I woke up this morning. Thank you for taking the time 👍🏼
At least more informed ;-)
Your video is perfect! It has good camera work and and naming of the parts was very professional. I'm so glad I took the time to research this component that i've wondered about since I was a kid.
Thank you so much!
My Rocky Mountain Instinct Alloy 30 2022 new makes the pawl ticks that are way loud! TICK TICK TICK!.......annoying! My wife's bike is not quite as loud and she has the Instinct Alloy 10.
A year or so has gone by and mine doesn't click as loud as it use to thankfully.
The engineering on these hubs looks so intricate that it is a wonder how they made these things many years ago. Obviously not as intricate so many years ago i think, but a search told me that the freewheel hub was invented in 1869. That is amazing!
Thank you so much, dude! I've been banging ym head vs. the wall trying to figure out what the noise - was! Thank you!
Thank you!! Bike noise was driving me crazy and no other video explained it like this with a clear example using the actual part. Perfect video!!!
Very cool and great advice, mine sounded ridiculously loud... LBS greased the hub w some kind of lubricant and NOW NEAR SILENT !
This kind of stuff is what makes youtube great
THANK YOU! Saved me a trip to the bike store
I love the bell 🛎! Great video thanks. I had a mind to stop the clicking but now I’m glad to hear it because I understand what it is and how important it is. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
THE BEST LESSON VIDEO I've seen!
Thanks for that, I was after a silent hub but think I'll stick with mine now knowing that its healthy to have a click. Great vid 👍
Glad you liked it, and enjoy the clicking!
Take it a part, put some grease in there, it will make it quieter. Not too much or it won't work properly.
Just bought i new bike "Cube Agree C:62 Race Disc" .
Such a loud clicking noise, going to take a while to get used to it. The attention is nice for the bike because of the sound ;)
Me and my GF have the same bike and I was wondering why her bike makes that sound so loud and I can barely hear mine. Thanks a lot for the video!
Thanks for this video. I was worried about this since my bike is from Amazon and I have no way to get it to a shop 😂
Great video! I learned something today!
Sweet that is the goal!
Great video on how a hub works. Thanks.
Good job Jame
I thought something wrong with my cassette.
After I watched your video... I know why my rear hub clicking noises .
Glad I could help!
Add lub and the clicking will be more quiet.
Thank you I have been wondering to know this since childhood
Glad I could help.
Excellent video James The Bike Guy. Very good explanation. I've learned something. Thanks
Glad I helped you learn something!
Beautifully explained!
Glad you liked it
Thank you for the explanation. This makes a lot of sense for the woom 3 bike we just bought for the kid.
Exactly what I needed 👍🏼
Took my gravel bike out for the first time in a while yesterday and I really noticed it was much louder than my road bike. Thought I was going nuts and something was wrong - this explains it. Thanks!
Thanks James! I was wondering for the longest time whats making that distinct sound in my bike!
Great explanation.
I have had several 10 speeds that have made that sound and I actually like it. I recently purchased a 10 speed, it's an older one, from what I could find it's an early 1970's. It's a Nishiki Olypiad. It was really dirty and I had to replace tires, tubes, rim straps to protect tubes. Spent a week doing some detail cleaning and ordered a cassette removal tool do I can take the wheel apart and clean it real nice. I noticed today it has a bit of side to play in it. I really like the fact it came with quick releases on front and rear wheels. The play and remembrance that there is no clicking sound brought me here. Do when my tool arrives to remove the cassette, having access to free wheel is there a lock ring or something keeping the hub attached to wheel? Just trying to get an idea of what I'm getting myself into and if I'll be able to possibly restore that clicking sound.
Excellent job in explaining this! Thank you for taking the time to educate us, I appreciate. Other than adding grease, is there anything to quiet it down?
I finally found a good explanation
Glad to have helped a happy riding.
Great video and a very good explanation of how the hub works inside. 👍
Wow this was helpful. I have a ten speed road bicycle and wondered what made that unique noise when I spun my tire...
I looked up on my computer “what makes that unique noise specific to a ten speed” and “What makes that clicking noise on my rear wheel” and the computer kept returning that my bicycle was broken or i stretched my chain....! ......
Thanks for the “break down” !! 👍🏻😎
Sure thing, glad I could help!
Thank you for the video . So , it really turns out my hub bearing needs replacement
Thank you! Best explanation and video for freewheel mechanism. please update your title, then people who search for freewheel mechanism will get this video.
Well, this isn't a freewheel mechanism so I wouldn't want to mislead anyone. This is a freehub. Similar function but different type of parts.
Thanks James, excellent explanation..
Glad it was helpful!
Best explanation Video on TH-cam, Thanks A lot!
You're too kind! Thanks for watching.
Great explanation on how a hub works. Enjoyed this video.
Loud hubs save lives! 😄
Wow I had no idea. Awesome video!
Excellent video and explanation. Thank you.
Thanks. Very nice explanation
Glad you liked it
Excellent and very clear explanation, Thanks bro. 💐✌️
Just what I was looking for.
Thanks man
Excellent video
My hub is silent my bike is like brand new all my friends bikes all click lol was wondering why mine didn’t as daft as it sounds which led me to your video!
I bet you have a shimano hub!
I have a french road bike and probably one of my favorite things about it is that it is silent at all stages of pedaling or coasting. I can be riding right next the person I am riding with (my front tire by their rear before it) and unless they turn to look if I'm there they wouldn't know.
Their bike makes enough noise for both of us.
My favorite ride is an 11mi stretch of paved bike path between two cities and i can easily pass who I'm riding with and then I can ride in complete silence. We both have head/tail lights on our bikes. Mines the original 12v theirs is battery. We ride mostly at night because i am unable to perspire, so i get overheated just standing in the sunlight, that makes a 22 mi round trip in daylight impossible. In middle of the Midwest it seems like even though we both have our headlights on my bike is silent so I disturb the wildlife left but they hear them coming and have about wrecked them a few times buy suddenly running out in front of them. Animals react to me as well however they don't run out in front of me. I don't want to hit a deer or a raccoon in my car let alone while I'm on a bicycle.
It's I'm sure so quiet because i have packed the hubs with high temp red grease because that is what I have to use in the hydrologic commercial paper cutter, I figured if it works to keep a 44-inch razor sharp knife blade from jamming up it should be able to keep up couple inch hub from jamming up. Guess it was just a bonus it made everything silent. The bike was given to me 2017 but the person who gave it to me brought it to the United States when they moved here from the Netherlands in early 80s and they have not ridden it since. When they gave it to me it still has the nipples on the tires I have since written those off now, but I'm still on the same tires from late 70s.
Nice, some hubs make noise some don't, glad you like the silence.
Maybe it uses a cone clutch. Like on those old singlespeed coaster brake hubs.
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Any old single speed coaster brake hub. Some are still being made but they tend to be bad quality. There were some multi speed hubs with silent freewheeling mechanisms like cone clutches back in the day (50s and older) but those are hard to find and expensive. Any hub can be used on any bike if it has the right amount of spoke holes. Also keep the width in mind.
Well shown and described - really good!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for explaining the noise on my bike.
Glad to help
Really great explanation! Thank you!
asked this question many times, first time i understood the answer:) thank u
Great video. Thank you.
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Actually the noise your hearing is the Paws switching between points and landing on the next point etc etc, the springs are to make sure the paws have enough strength to move and engage the next point when they pass over each point and lock in place when you pedal forward.
As explained
Hi great explanation, if the sound of my hub when free wheeling Is clicking but then at a certain point makes a louder sound would this indicate broken pawl?
Well if the louder soud occurs when you are coasting at a higher speed it is absolutely normal, but if the sound is more like a little bang, metaly pop or a grinding sound, that can indicate a broken pawl of some other issue in your drivetrain.
Thank you for explaining! What does it mean when my normal clicking sound changed (slightly quieter) after I removed the wheel and put it back on? I’m wondering if I did something wrong.
Probably got quieter because the new wheel hasn't worn out enough to change the shape of the connecting parts yet. It's new and has its original shape and pressure where the pressure is supposed to be. When things get off in shape in any mechanism running it makes a different sound... Quieter meaning running properly? Or Noisier means running properly? Usually quieter means better, but depending on the device... Some devices are deliberately designed to make noise... Sorry for babbling on explanation...
Thanks! I was worried about the clicking.
Glad you know what that is all about.
Very good explanation, a great video! Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
thanks for explaining! Got a new higher model bike and noticed this when cruising. Glad it’s just how the bike works. I’ve been finding it useful when cruising on busy shared paths. Less annoying noise for people in front to know a bike is behind them instead of ringing my bell
Glad it was helpful
Jamesthebikeguy and do you only get this noise on high end bikes? Because my new high end bike makes this noise while my older cheap Walmart bike doesn’t.
Amazing video!
Thanks for sharing James! Can the hub be switched out to make the clicking noise or to stop the noise or is wheel replacement the only option??
Very well prepare and explanations, Thank you...
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful video 💯💯💯💯💯
Glad you found it helpful
@@Jamesthebikeguy Thank u For Sharing your knowledge...💯 Everything makes sense now..🚴👍
Excellent explanation. Thank you.
Thanks for watching
Nice video.
Thanks
Thanks for the video
Is the clicking sound different from brand to brand? I recently changed my standard, factory, Merida set I bought the bike with, with a Campagnolo set. The clicking sound changed. I didn't pay much attention, I just find it slightly annoying, as the new click is a little louder. :)) Anyway, brilliant video, very clear, very well done. And I learned something new today. Thanks!
Clicking noise changes with each brand as they all have slightly different designs.
Socks my bike is quit wife bike is making that sound both 3 speeds and was 600 a pice I hade that sound
The noise is not from the spring in the pall or from the movement of the pall up and down by itself. It’s from the palls springloaded action gliding and then hitting onto the drivering grooves thats making the noise, there is no noise from the palls by themselves.
The spring is powering the pawl to hit the drive ring.
What if i put grease inside those little spaces that have the little springs.....will it block it? Thanks
Thank you perfect explanation.
Thanks, very informative!
I loved your video! Very nice explanation! Now I understand why my bike makes such a loud clicking noice.
I have a question, are you allowed to add more grease/oil to your bike? (The oil you mentioned in the video.) If so, what is the grease/oil called?
It depends. Most hubs play nice with extra grease or oil, but you need to check with the manufacturer. I usually like to use Dumond Tech, Pro-x free hub grease.
@@Jamesthebikeguy Thank you so much!
Thank you!!!! I just bought a bike and it’s making that sound…. I thought there’s something wrong with it 😅
My mtb was making this noise but now it does not should I take it in to get looked at or just leave it?
Excellent explanation!!!
Thanks and glad I could help!
Hello. Thank you for your videos. One question. I have an BMC Amp city bike. Since day one i hated the noisy sound. The dealer said it was normal and that actually meant it was a good hub. But just because of that ive been for one and a half year with this noisy hub that i just hate. I do believe is a DT 370. Is there anything i can do? I was so desperate that i was even thinking just to change the entire wheel set. I dont necesarelly need completely silent. But not that loud so i can enjoy my evening rides around my town. Please help me.
Bravo thank you for the video I want my clicking back lol 👍
Great explanation!
Glad it was helpful!
Please make a video about examples of loud hubs😊
What hub do you want to see?
@@Jamesthebikeguy i have a giant brass 2 and my hub doesn't make noise what i should change hab or the cassete
I was looking for a source of a non normal single click per wheel revolution , sort of like a bad spoke , or maybe something on the hub that makes a click - tick sound , but can't be duplicated in the workstand with no weight on the wheel / hub …
Stop by your local bike shop they should be able to figure out what the noise is