What Have You Fettled Today?

[Night Train]

Cleaned and lubed the chain, sprockets and bearings on the Brompton and then adjusted and lubed the twist shift. Then I made a luggage socket to fit on a motorbike pannier so I can have different luggage.

 

[Cubist]

As it was raining I turned an old water bottle into a battery holder for my lights. Discovered that the female end of the cable join fitted the rubber insert perfectly, so have a neat waterproof solution.

 

[thegravestoneman]

Just to show off a bit , my bike has 'work stand' built in at least for the rear end very handy for fixing my newly acquired p#nct*re. I had to take the dog out of the basket first though. Not quite fettling but I do need to adjust the gears and brakes again while it is up there.

 

[compo]

My rear mech wasn't changing up (to a higher gear) cleanly. Click the lever and there was a delay before the chain switched sprockets. I decided not to mess about trying this and that and just change the cable and outer, which I know from many posts on this group is a common fault and cure. Once done there was no way the gears would index properly, they would go up and not down or down and not up or jump a couple of sprockets or none at all. My new outers were 5mm whilst the originals were 4 mm. In the end I took all the new stuff off. Squirted a load of GT85 through the original outers, and refitted them with a new inner cable. The gears indexed almost immediately with only a half turn on the adjuster.

There must be a difference between pukka Shimano outers and generic outers other than simply the diameter of them.

 

[G3CWI]

Decided on a rest day so fettling. Fettled children's BSOs. Yuk. I suppose you can't expect much for £120 each. They cleaned up nicely and the gears sort of work as do the brakes (now). Cycled round the block on 18yr old son's ATB; 16 minutes. I do it in under 10 mins on my bike. The riding position seems all wrong and the frame is too small. On the plus side I feel confident in challenging him to a race, and now he's 18, the loser can buy the beer.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

After trying bar ends on the knockabout bike I find I like them so have put some on the Raleigh as well, along with a pair of new alloy pedals (just some inexpensive BMX style ones for the time being) as I know the bearings are kaput on the old ones.

Updated cockpit.

 

[jazzkat]

I decided to put my aerobars back on my road bike to get used to my TT position before the TTing season starts.
Took the bars off only to find the carbon spacers had siezed onto the steering stem, due to sweat I guess .
So out with my two favourite tools - big wooden hammer and WD40

1/2hr later my ten minute job is finished and I've got it all back to together without breaking anything.

 

[HLaB]

My bike has been cleaned two day in a row, it'll not know what's happening but yesterdays ride was extremal wet and today's was in snow.

 

[biggs682]

my fettling today was dry asembley of stem and bars to decide what mix i want on stem length etc etc , and fixing a puncture on the wheelchair .

 

[Deleted member 1258]

No bike fettling for me today, though I did polish the fixed tonight, I was drawer fettling, we brought a new unit for the dinning area this time last year, the big drawer on it is standard modern design, hardboard bottom fitting into slots in the sides, it lasted about six months before I had to reinforce it, last week I noticed one of the bars I had fitted had come off and I was in danger loosing the contents into the cupboard below., a trip to B&Q for a wooden batten and half an hours work to fix it.

 

[subaqua]

decided against truing the wheels on the commuter myself and p[opped them into my LBS ( biketrax wanstead) they were sorted within 2 hours of me dropping them off on a busy saturday !! glad i did as the dish was wrong apparently hence the numerous loose spokes.

got home fitted them and new blocks to the Maguras, spent 20 mins yesterday adjusting the magura brakes while cooking lunch ( roasts are easy and give u lots of "free time" ),.

primed the frame for the boys bike and next thing is to rub down lightly ready for top coats

 

[Trail Child]

Raised the seat and filled up the tires of the city bike I haven't ridden since November. Loved getting out on it today, but I don't know how I managed to ride around with it with the seat so low. The back brake feels "spongy" but I have free spring tuning from the LBS for the life of the bike, so I'll let them deal with it.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Got home from work today to find a freshly delivered box of goodies from CRC, which immediately instigated a pre-tea fettle-fest.

First job was to fit a new chain to my MTB after suffering a snappage last week. So I've ditched the old Shimano one and gone for a KMC 9XL Silver, and very swanky it is too. My road bike got treated to a new 9XL chain as well... just to keep it happy.

Then I fitted a Topeak saddle bag bracket clip thing to each bike so I can swap the same bag between each bike, which will make my life easier

Final fettle was to fit new inner pads to my MTB helmet as the old ones have seen far too many better days. It's supremely comfy again and feels like a new helmet now

The last two items will have to wait a while before they get used - a 'flop stop' for when the bike's on the workstand, and a brush for cleaning in those awkward places.

And I finished just in time for tea... Happy days

 

[RedBullet]

As it was raining I turned an old water bottle into a battery holder for my lights. Discovered that the female end of the cable join fitted the rubber insert perfectly, so have a neat waterproof solution.

That is a brilliant idea, never thought of using another water bottle and holder to put my mechanical bits in. Will look loads better than my naff saddle bag

 

[TheDoctor]

Fitted a new set of windscreen wipers to the car