Rear Wheel Noise - click - tick etc...

What are you peddling? Drugs? 

Perhaps you should be pedaling...

Seriously, you need to give more information such as frequency etc

One man's creak is another's click. I read this and live this.

Because the noise resonates in the BB area does not mean it's the BB.

Well meaning ideas, sometimes are isolated, or way down the list of likely. Don't discount them.

Duplication is a priority in figuring what and where.

JimLangley. net has a super article full of ideas and fixes.

Made a contraption inspired by an auto mechanic buddy, to help pinpoint exactly where the annoying _____ noise is coming from. You fill in the blank.

M.

Some excellent suggestions here, especially from LonelyOne, very useful.

I had this once which disappeared when I tried spraying WD40 on the spokes around the hub. When that wore off it started again. It turned out to be a spoke with a tight bend where it came out of the hole in the hub, meaning (I think) that it rubbed ever so slightly on the adjacent spoke every time the tension was taken off and came back on again as the wheel turned. Tightening all the spokes quite a bit cured it.

Update Mostyn?

I eventually found the cause of a recent one was the allen bolt fitting on my mudguard wasn't quite tight. Anything creaking attached to the frame will sound like its coming from anywhere/everywhere.

Have you got a quick link? Make sure it is joined properly.

It would be helpful to know the frequency of the noise - is it every wheel revolution, every crank rotation, or seemingly unrelated to crank and wheel?

First thing I'd check is the indexing of the rear mech. If the indexing's out, the chain can make that sort of noise as it rubs on the sprocket next to the one it's on. This is pretty common on new bikes after a few weeks as the cables stretch a little

On my bike - same drive train as yours - causes of such a noise have been:

• Rear skewer not tight enough and/or grit between clamp and frame.
  Cleaned the clamping surfaces of the skewer bolts and axle bolts with a toothbrush, and the frame, and applied a token smear of grease to the frame surfaces.
• Lockring on cassette not tight enough.
• Plastic grommet in the top tube where the internally-run rear brake cable emerged by the saddle clamp. 
  This wasn't seated right, and the ever-so small flex in the frame whilst I moved about through the pedal stroke was enough to make it move about and click/tick/click. Again, a touch of grease and a firm push to seat it properly cleared it. Took four months to find that one.
• Loose chainring bolts 
  Clean, grease, re-tighten.

Whilst researching possible solutions to my symptoms, others have claimed:

• For lace-up shoes, check that the taped lace end isn't making contact with the seat tube or front derailleur.
• Front derailleur cable end-cap tapping your shoe, as bechdan says.
• Spokes rubbing against each other - but only when pedalling.
• A loose spoke.
• Saddle clamp and rails need greased.
• Seatpost and clamp need cleaned and greased / carbon grip paste as appropriate
• A dangly zipper on your jersey.
• Handlebar/stem interface needs a touch of grease - not convinced that this solution is any better than the problem, personally.
• "It's the bottom bracket" if you've got press-fit.
• "It's never the bottom bracket".

Best advice was - make one change and trial it before changing something else. Then you'll know exactly what to do the next time you hear the exact same noise.

Good luck!

first thing id check is that the front derailleur cable isnt tapping your pedal as it passes, ive had this lots of times, simple fix!