After the last two winters, I’ve entered spring with a creaking noise coming from the rear of the Dummy. Last year, I found that it was spoke nipples that needed some lubrication, but that didn’t help this year. I then tried tightening the spokes, based on advice from a repair guy during Minneapolis Bike to Work Week, but that didn’t help either.

Even though I rebuilt the Dummy’s rear hub last spring, I decided to do it again by gutting the bearings, cleaning the hub, and packing with new bearings and grease and boom, back in business! So glad to have a silent, non-creaking ride again.