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Canyon Ultimate seatpost noise
Hi All,
I got myself a new Canyon Ultimate CF SLX this summer for my 40th birthday, one minor irritation is the seatpost making a "ticking" noise occasionally when seated.
It's a wedge based system on the Ultimate, suggesting no more than 2nm of torque.
For the first 1500km or so - using the red carbon Canyon supplied the bike with - it was silent. It then started making a clicking/ticking noise with increasing regularity, which I eventually identified as the seat post.
I took it out, gave it a clean and replaced it (this time with some Tacx carbon paste) which did the job for another ~1000ish km.
I've done this three times now, roughly once I month I have to re-seat the seat post. It's hardly the end of the world, but it is a little irritating. Has anyone experienced similar issues or have a longer term solution?
Thanks,
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Canyon Ultimate seatpost should be 5Nm. If you're only at 2Nm that's why your post is creaking. That said I have had to reapply paste a little more frequently than my old bike.
I had this with my Ultimate, its gone now (I've had it a year). I cleaned the post and refitted it with carbon paste to the correct torque setting which on mine is 5nm. Are you sure it's only 2nm on yours? That sounds very low for a seat post
Hi, did you find a solution to this issue? I have Grail with flexi seatpost and I had a similar issue so I tried cleaning everything one step at a time and figured that it was in connection with saddle and seatpost one screw was making craking noise.