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I seem to be speaking another language. What does your hope do or not do for that matter?

I do have Echo forks but it only started clicking, wenn I swapped the stem. Before that I didn't have any noise. I was wondering if a carbon bar would get rid of the noise (if it comes back) as there isn't metal on metal.

I'm just wondering. My Hope Pro II Evo Trials is much louder than my Echo TR FFW and you want it louder still?

Thanks! Only you don't have the stem I'm talking about. Still, it might be my last resort. I just figured out that this time, it wasn't the clamp at the bar but the one at the steerer making noise. As I put all my weight onto the bar and then just took the shaft into my hand* and pulled it up it made a loud click. So it couldn't possibly be the clamps at the bar. I took the bolts off the stem, greased them, put a light coat of grease onto the steerer (here I'm not really afraid as there will hardly be any slipping upwards of the entire stem) and put everything together with the bolts being tightened at 6.5Nm. The clicking noise has disappeared for now but it wouldn't be the first time that it came back again after a short session. For now I'm positive though. *Please don't quote this.

Like what? I don't really want to grease the clamping area. I don't understand. Instead of using a screw only, you fixed it on the downside with a nut as well?

Well, I sanded off the anodizing but it's still making that noise and this only 15mins. into the ride. I am kinda annoyed as I have cut the steerer in that stupid angle and now I can't fit any 4bolt clamping stem anymore. Are there any 150x30 that have a sloping top but a 4 bolt clamp? edit: I haven't been able to move the bars but haven't tried much either.

That would be +60mm.

Would that count for a 5'11'' guy as well?

Thank you. Well, I can't say that I've been practicing as much as I would've liked. With two children at home there is basically no time to do nothing. The sidehop was the easiest thing for me to learn. I know it's far from the perfect technique I have but I didn't have any problems doing it. This was the third time I practiced it. It took me ages to do some back wheel hops and even more to learn the pedal up. The sidehop only three days. I guess it's positive transfer from the other two things.

I kinda got the impression that your line has been written by somebody else. It's a pity though. I know that loctite will fix the (not so big) problem but still... one would expect... I guess I should forget about my expectations when it comes to trials stuff. "Normal" bike parts are being tested before hitting the market but as you guys told me, this just isn't the case for trials parts. I wonder why that is so. Would it cost twice as much in the end? My Tocco lever was faulty so I went for the Racing line. It is performing flawlessly but I am still surprised that I have to "fix" sth. with loctite.

And you would be complaining about it now wouldn't you?

I don't think that was on purpose. Still awesome!

Why not? A lever that costs twice as much as it's counterpart on the left should at least perform equally but then again, trials parts aren't very good anyways even though you pay a lot.... unfortunately.

Thank you! I really don't know much as I've just started last year in October. My latest vids are these: http://videos-static-1.mtb-news.de/videos/8/0/7/7/2/1/_/video/14.03.14_7b14b8_03e048-h.m4v http://videos-static-1.mtb-news.de/videos/8/0/7/7/2/1/_/video/15.03.14_bb3a95_1d016c-h.m4v As you can see, the bike is much better than me.

Micro notched cams.

I know but whenever I need to bleed the brake or whatever, I'll have to re-loctite it. The saint lever has a much better mechanism.

Pretty annoying for a 100€ lever. Again... trials stuff isn't the best quality even though the racing line performs perfectly (if it wasn't for the above mentioned issue). The Saint 810 lever I've got on the other side is perfect!!!

Just one quick question. I've got the Racing Line lever and whenever I ride more than half an hour the little screw to adjust the reach of the lever turns itself out again so that the lever is too far from the handlebar. I had the same problem with the Tocco lever. Anyone can tell me how to fix it? Loctite?

I wouldn't have been able to state the torque if I hadn't used one. I've got the Syntace. I'll try sanding it tomorrow.

I think it doesn't have to do with the anodizing but rather the rougher surface created when sanding it. I'll do it then and will keep you guys updated. Only thing I dunno is how to sand the inner side of the shims. Can't really reach it I mean...

I don't really understand your dialect. What are you saying at the end? That is the sound of your bars ... So you're saying that getting rid of the anodizing will get rid of the clicking?

Hm... I don't know about the anodizing part though. I can't imagine that this is really causing the issue. I've got some 800 here but will wait until maybe some other guys have responded. I'm not sure but I think that an alu/alu connection is prone to make some noise under great amount of force.

Yeah I kinda know about the disclaimers but I haven't had to tighten any stem more than 4Nm in my life especially when using carbon paste. I'm not worried about stripping the bolts but rather braking my bars. I wonder if it's a problem of the bars being very shiny (I mean the finish of the bars, don't know the English word for it). With "grit" you mean sandpaper? What number would you recommend? 400? 800? Also, I was thinking of mounting TryAll Carbon bars but am afraid that these wouldn't stand the clamping mechanism of the brother stem.

I don't think, that this would solve the clicking issue and as stated at Tarty the "maximum bolt torque [is] 6Nm, over-tightening can crack the clamp".

Hello, so I've got a Brother CNC stem which I bough used in this forum. I use it with a Tensile 99 bar and can't get it to be quiet + the bar slips. Here's how I've mounted it: - cleaned the clamping area and put some dynamics carbon paste on it (w/o it would slip even with higher Nm). - changed the bolts for some with a washer and greased the threads plus the head of the screws - clamped it to 5Nm Today I went out riding and it still makes this clicking noise and as I did a sidehop it made a louder click and the bar slipped a tiny bit. The bar is almost new and hasn't done this noise w/ another stem. I really like the geo of this stem but the clicking/slipping drives me nuts. Since many of you guys are using the TryAll stem, which uses the same clamping mechanism, I was wondering if any of you had these problems and if so, how you got rid of them. Thanx, Nico.