Andy in Germany
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- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Top, from memory.
What Have You Fettled Today?
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Top, from memory.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Unusual, it’s usually the bottom one as that’s the one taking the most load, and also exposed to water off the road if you don’t have mudguards etc.
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Thats what I was thinking.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
It may have been the bottom; I had to do it in a hurry and move onto the next job so I wasn't taking notes. Also was probably distracted by something.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Been busy, so haven't posted, but in the past few weeks I've worked on:
Viner Mitus:
Been out testing this as it'll be my new 'winter' bike. If you can call a lightweight carbon race bike that just has clip-on mudguards a winter bike. It's had a different saddle from Syncros added, plus adjustments to the bars / gears / brakes and the rear derailleur hanger un-bent. It's now working but has been fiddly.
Ridley Helium:
It was a disaster on it's first hillclimb outing; at over 400 watts the gearing set-up was struggling. Either the cable needed tightening or my attempt to fit a wide-range set-up wasn't working.
Took everything apart and, as the crank was always a bit "sticky", I replaced the Dura-Ace crankset and bottom bracket with a ceramic Rotor bottom bracket plus the original Rotor crank we had in the previous PlanetX. Everthing there was much smoother.
The rear derailleur appeared to be the culprit as it'd caught on something at some point between original build and first hillclimb event. Possibly due to quite a lot of transiting with furniture. I replaced the Dura-Ace 9000 rear derailleur and it all appears to be working. Proper test on Tuesday morning then I'm dropping it back to son no. 2 on Tuesday evening.
Raleigh Mk 6 Professional / Guerciotti:
This was pulled out and stared at. Then ridden up and down the street a few times. It may be gloss-painted in Italy colours with fake Guerciotti / Columbus decals but it rides quite nicely. Adjustments have been made to the gears and a new front tyre fitted with SPD pedals rather than the old steel ones. It'll get a proper test-ride shortly and then I'll start parts-hunting to get it back to original rather than the current bitsa.
Viner Mitus:
Been out testing this as it'll be my new 'winter' bike. If you can call a lightweight carbon race bike that just has clip-on mudguards a winter bike. It's had a different saddle from Syncros added, plus adjustments to the bars / gears / brakes and the rear derailleur hanger un-bent. It's now working but has been fiddly.
Ridley Helium:
It was a disaster on it's first hillclimb outing; at over 400 watts the gearing set-up was struggling. Either the cable needed tightening or my attempt to fit a wide-range set-up wasn't working.
Took everything apart and, as the crank was always a bit "sticky", I replaced the Dura-Ace crankset and bottom bracket with a ceramic Rotor bottom bracket plus the original Rotor crank we had in the previous PlanetX. Everthing there was much smoother.
The rear derailleur appeared to be the culprit as it'd caught on something at some point between original build and first hillclimb event. Possibly due to quite a lot of transiting with furniture. I replaced the Dura-Ace 9000 rear derailleur and it all appears to be working. Proper test on Tuesday morning then I'm dropping it back to son no. 2 on Tuesday evening.
Raleigh Mk 6 Professional / Guerciotti:
This was pulled out and stared at. Then ridden up and down the street a few times. It may be gloss-painted in Italy colours with fake Guerciotti / Columbus decals but it rides quite nicely. Adjustments have been made to the gears and a new front tyre fitted with SPD pedals rather than the old steel ones. It'll get a proper test-ride shortly and then I'll start parts-hunting to get it back to original rather than the current bitsa.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
My Thompson Capella has had a chainring switch; 52/36 to a set of Absolute Black round 50/34 chainrings. I've been wanting to do this for a while as it was designed for climbing rather than other aspects.
An adjustment to the front derailleur and it's all OK, except for being a bit slippy in 34x11. I'll have a try like this and, if I'm happy, will shorten the chain a link or two.
An adjustment to the front derailleur and it's all OK, except for being a bit slippy in 34x11. I'll have a try like this and, if I'm happy, will shorten the chain a link or two.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
tried to fit replacement quill stem to the giant but its not wide enough to go around the curve of the bars even pried apart with a screwdriver , its a 25.4 and i measured the bars at 26 ish mm. not sure whether to go for an adaptor with a normal stem or fork out for another quill stem, ideally im after 90 but might get away with an 80
some i have found
some i have found
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
or go for an adaptor ?
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Fitted some bar tape to my Stuart Sinclair
I put one of those in my commuter, much better choice of stems, and still the ease of height adjustment of a quill system.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
They are also fairly inexpensive.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Lubed the chain as the gerbils were starting to move in
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
upgraded the carbon to 11 speed rival from tiagra, gone very easy just the front mech to tweak
