Noises upon noises.

After I bled that brakes on the Felt, I put the Eddy Merckx on the stand and tried to figure out what that damned noise was. Plainly it wasn't the chain lubrication. Finally I discovered that I hadn't quite tightened the front derailleur down quite enough. Since this is a clamp on derailleur you have to be pretty careful tightening it up so as not to tear the paint off of the downtube.

This allowed the front derailleur to touch the tops of the big ring. It also somehow caused the front derailleur limit crews to move. I suppose the vibration. With this all straightened out, all of the noise disappeared. And it was nice being able to touch the rings and the chain without getting grease on my hands.

With the Eddy finished I can get back to the Felt and properly adjust the derailleurs, install the chain and it is ready to roll. I had a new set of Look SpD-type pedals and they work well.

I have a gold chain for the Felt but it is dirty and I have to wait a week for the new ultrasonic cleaner to arrive. And then I have to figure out a want to permanently seal the tub from the rest of the assembly.

I use a very powerful soap-like cleaning compound that you can get at Auto Zone. What the hell if I was using some sort of flammable cleaner and I left it overnight and it shorted itself out like it did with the non-flammable soap?

While these cleaners are fairly cheap, I can't see a difference between the Chinese and the American versions.

I do have a normal cleaned and waxed road chain so I'll put that one on.

While I'm at it, I was looking around for a Dog Fang chain guard and ran across on of those old Shimano 600 rear derailleurs.