My bike has a click. It seems to be triggered by pedaling, but only when a reasonable amount of force is placed on the pedal while in motion, because it cannot be replicated by pushing the pedal by hand. It’s not a critical click, just a present one, and because it only occurs when I’m moving along at some speed there’s no way I can get down and figure out exactly what it is that is doing the clicking. A solution would be to have someone traveling alongside me at exactly the same speed with their head about a foot off the ground, but since the click isn’t terminal I’m not going to bother sorting that out.
My website currently has a click, or at least my installation of Movable Type does, but they’re pretty much one and same as far as you’re concerned. Every so often this evening I’ve been getting the dreaded “Internal Server Error” informing me that the server “was unable to complete your request” which usually happens after installing some new widget and forgetting to configure it properly, only I haven’t installed anything. And the server is completing the request. Everything is rebuilding as required. So it’s a click. Mildly annoying but not apparently critical.
I have set up a new template for the Google Sitemap but that’s just producing an (admittedly quite large) page of pretty ordinary text so shouldn’t be causing any problems. Stopping it rebuilding does stop the click, but I’m at a loss as to why it’s clicking in the first place. The ever useful error logs tells me that there was a “premature end of script headers” in my mt.cgi program which is like saying something metal is rubbing against something else metal and making a clicking noise. I guess what I need is for someone who knows about such things to watch it going through the motions and gently prize those click causing routines apart. Or I could just rebuild the Sitemap manually every week or so.
Why did I start writing this again? Oh yeah – neat analogy. I’m a sucker for those…
My bike has a click too. But not my website. Not helpful, I know. just sharing. :)
Might be the spindle (I think that’s what it’s called – the pin between the two pedals) starting to give way, though I’d expect you to feel it as you pedal as well as hear it if that were the case. You should be all right for a goodly while regardless.
Oh, and note: pedal, not peddle.
Corrected. Damn this illogical language of ours…
Sounds like your pedal has loosened a bit.
Tighten it with a sturdy spanner.
If it doesn’t work then you might need to replace the ball bearings in the clicking pedal and regrease them.
Another explanation could be that your bottom bracket (the spindle bit) is f***ed and needs replacing.
I have no idea what any of this means. Maybe I should take a photo and you can all annotate it on Flickr…
That sort of click sounds a little like a loose crank, but it’s devilish hard to be certain, since other things make that kind of sound (like a worn bottom bracket, tho this is less likely now than it used to be).
Some crank designs are very easy to tighten with the appropriate hex key, others need a special tool. If you’ve got one of the easy ones, it might be worth trying tightening it anyway. If it is “felt” as much as heard, it *might* be that.