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Clatter over uneven pavement when cold
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<blockquote data-quote="ThwartedEfforts" data-source="post: 1400285" data-attributes="member: 91431"><p>Well this is embarrassing. Turned out the rear hugger was completely loose, i.e. lacking all four of its bolts.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://foxav.co.uk/upload/hugger.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>You can see there is damage both to the plastic hugger and to the paint on the bike. On the other side the plastic has had an edge worn where it's come into contact with the shock reservoir.</p><p></p><p>The noise coincided with road imperfections because (fair obviously) it's on an unsprung part of the bike not to mention in contact with the tyre. I can only imagine it worked its way looser and looser over an extended period of time, the loosening bolts giving the sound a metallic edge. I really cannot explain how I'd not noticed this previously: the hugger is an obvious section that gets dirty and gets a wipe when the bike is cleaned.</p><p></p><p>Has reminded me though how it's so often the case that if you try too hard to hear a squeak or rattle, or make some sort of connection between what you're hearing and what you're doing or how you're doing it, you often miss the stark bloody obvious <img src="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/weirdsmiley.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThwartedEfforts, post: 1400285, member: 91431"] Well this is embarrassing. Turned out the rear hugger was completely loose, i.e. lacking all four of its bolts. [IMG]https://foxav.co.uk/upload/hugger.jpg[/IMG] You can see there is damage both to the plastic hugger and to the paint on the bike. On the other side the plastic has had an edge worn where it's come into contact with the shock reservoir. The noise coincided with road imperfections because (fair obviously) it's on an unsprung part of the bike not to mention in contact with the tyre. I can only imagine it worked its way looser and looser over an extended period of time, the loosening bolts giving the sound a metallic edge. I really cannot explain how I'd not noticed this previously: the hugger is an obvious section that gets dirty and gets a wipe when the bike is cleaned. Has reminded me though how it's so often the case that if you try too hard to hear a squeak or rattle, or make some sort of connection between what you're hearing and what you're doing or how you're doing it, you often miss the stark bloody obvious [IMG]https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/weirdsmiley.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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