What Have You Fettled Today?

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Fitted a new set of windscreen wipers to the car

tis permitted - we don't want you hitting any fellow CC'ers whilst they are actually on their bikes...

 

[mark c]

Fitted new set of 28mm conti Contacts, bit of a tight fitting but now looking fwd to giving them a run.

 

[Cubist]

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

I'll post some pics tomorrow.
Yesterday I stood over Cubester as he stripped and serviced my 150mm Revelation fork, new lower leg seals and glide rings, new o rings on the airspring internals, and damper assembly. New oil in damper leg and all put back together.
Today I changed the 26t granny on my bouncer to a 24, and converted Cubester's front tyre to tubeless. Need more stans jizz to do the rear. I also cleaned and rewaxed my chain. Fettletastic.

 

[Psycolist]

rubbed the frame down on youngests "new" bike ready for priming and spraying next weekend. have all the bits from Chain reaction now and so far has come in at £90 for parts including a clarks brake set , thats the complete set cables , blocks calipers and levers for front and back at £22 . new chain , new bearings . 2 weeks time its the big reassemble and he will be helping me ( he is 5 so please wish me luck)

Brilliant. I've been getting help from my grandson eversince I got his first bike for him when he was 2. He's only 3 1/2 now but already has his own bike tool kit. I just have to re-do everything he's done once he's gone home. But he's learning. He enjoys the basics and always wants to try something new, lacks the strength to do nuts/screws from the begining/end but he loves to finish what I start.

 

[subaqua]

Brilliant. I've been getting help from my grandson eversince I got his first bike for him when he was 2. He's only 3 1/2 now but already has his own bike tool kit. I just have to re-do everything he's done once he's gone home. But he's learning. He enjoys the basics and always wants to try something new, lacks the strength to do nuts/screws from the begining/end but he loves to finish what I start.

he loved it when i was spraying the primer on the frame. " dad , that smells great, what is it ?" "can i spray some on the fence ? " he thinks the grey primer looks good so when he sees the black frame and red/yellow forks he is going to pee himself.

 

[compo]

I looked at my leather cycling shoes and they were encrusted with 3 months of winter crud. I gave them a wash and a good polish. Does that count as a fettle!

 

[youngoldbloke]

........ Does that count as a fettle!

English
[edit] EtymologyOld English fetel.

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛtəl

[edit] Noun

fettle (plural fettles)

1. A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim.
2. One's mental state; spirits.
3. Sand used to line a furnace.
4. (Geordie, Cumbrian) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
   What's yer fettle marra?
5. (ceramics) a seam line left by the meeting of mold pieces.
6. (UK, dialect)The act of fettling.
   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

[edit] Usage notes

Outside of dialectical usage a fossil, used only in the phrase in fine fettle.
[edit] Derived terms

• in fine fettle

[edit] Verb

fettle (third-person singular simple present fettles, present participle fettling, simple past and past participle fettled)

1. (Northern England) To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
2. (transitive) To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
3. (transitive, Geordie) To be upset or in bad mood.
   Divint fettle yersel ower that!
4. In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
5. (UK, cycling, slang) To repair or tune a bicycle.
6. (transitive) (archaic) To prepare. [quotations ▼]
   • 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
     But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next...

[edit] Derived terms

• fettler
• fettling

- just about - as in to 'sort out' or 'prepare' . (From Wiktionary, other definitions are available - but avoid the 'Urban Dictionary' one )

 

[wisdom]

I think that you could certainly class that as a fettle,as they are cycling shoes it is a cycling fettle.

 

[G3CWI]

Changed pedals. So much easier when you turn them the right way...

 

[subaqua]

Changed pedals. So much easier when you turn them the right way...

been there, done that, skinned knuckles, felt stupid. welcome to the club

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Changed pedals. So much easier when you turn them the right way...

I never do my pedals up very tight, just nip them up, I also apply plenty of grease to the threads, but like you I sometimes struggle to remember which way to turn them.

 

[HLaB]

I never do my pedals up very tight, just nip them up, I also apply plenty of grease to the threads, but like you I sometimes struggle to remember which way to turn them.

The odd phrase which somebody posted on c+ and has stuck in my mind 'into the frame to loosen'

 

[JoeyB]

Fitted a new saddle. Specialized Toupe Expert Plus... Now to find out if it will break me or not!

 

[fullcycle]

Gave it a thorough clean adjusted the front break and fitted 2 lovely bottle cages, very pleased

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Been fettling my Verenti after the mucky ride this morning, its been cleaned and polished, the chains been cleaned and lubed, I'm having rear tyre problems at the moment, the B**** on the back wont seat on the rim properly, I've had two half hour sessions trying to make it seat on the rim but without completely curing it, its still bobbing up and down a bit, and I've come to the conclusion its a faulty tyre.