What Have You Fettled Today?

[Peter88]

New chainset, chain and cassette fitted to the commuter.

 

[HLaB]

Last night was clean; new wheels; new chain and new cassette. Tonight was replacing the jockeys and new bar tape.

 

[Cubist]

I've converted an XT triple chainset 44, 32, 22 to 36 22 and bash using a BBG superlight bashguard. I've removed the rear mech and the old chainset off the bike, swapped the 36T ring and bash onto the new chainset. I've installed the new chainset, realigned the front mech as it was a tad high and fitted a new XT rear mech. I had to recable the new mech as the old one was frayed. I then put the chain on with a new powerlink and indexed the rear mech. I then fitted a new Garmin Edge mount to the hardtail and added new assembly paste to the dropper seatppost. Fettletastic.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The Plug is fixed. Pestilential piece of garbage S2C hub ripped out of back wheel and tossed in bin. Spare back wheel and chain tug put back on.

Fixed it is. And fixed it shall remain.

 

[GTKD]

Took the old bike out of the garage (having had my new bike stolen a few weeks ago) and set about making it lovable again.

Adjusted the brakes and gears, tightened up loose rear wheel hub bearings, lubricated the chain.

Now just need to replace the battery in the computer and give it a good clean and its back to it's old self. (Still miss the other bike though!)

 

[Octet]

Newly fitted chain broke, two days and only six miles after getting it put on and a whole bike service from my LBS... I'm hoping they shall resolve the issues free of charge...

 

[SpokeyDokey]

stripped bike down and cleaned it properly.

Inflated tyres - wow!

 

[youngoldbloke]

Removed and cleaned Aksium (2007) freehub, as had begun to hear/feel the dreaded Mavic 'scream'. Seems (IMO) the hub dries out over the winter when these wheels aren't used much. All well again

 

[IncoherentJeff]

My dad & his partner have expressed an interest in cycling again. So while visiting this weekend I pulled the old bikes out the shed for a quick assessment.

Magna Extreme 500

Not quite sure what's 'extreme' about it! (Last used 2008)

Hawk Trakatak (Ladies)

No idea when it was last used, a long long time ago and rarely by the look of it!

Emmelle Grampian

Last used in 2004!

I blasted the years worth of cobwebs off with the pressure washer.
Scrubbed the chains clean with some Motul cleaner I had lying around for the motorbike.
Sorted the Grampian handlebars
Oiled everything.

Managed to work a tight spot nearly free in the Grampians chain, surprising the other chains cleaned up well!
As expected the tyres & inner tubes have completely perished, anywhere got any bargain 26" tyres & tubes?

Might take the Grampian for a long test ride when I visit again on Sat. Pub/town bike potential, as I always paranoid about my road bike getting stolen. I doubt anyone would steal it!

 

[derrick]

Lubed up the fixie, had a slight creek on the way home could not find anything that would cause it, so everything got lubed and tightened, will see if i have cured it in the morning.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

MTB - Cleaned, lubed, tweaked the gears and it's running buttery smooth. Swapped the crappy 'made of cheese' crank bolts for some proper Shimano ones (at £9 a pop ). All ready to get muddied up tomorrow

Road - Cleaned , chain shortened by one link, lubed and gears tweaked (for more buttery smoothness). Greased the pedal bearings. Fitted some 4 degree reach adjusters - which is the best £3 I've spent this year - and adjusted the brakes accordingly

 

[Pumpkin the robot]

Removed the chainset and cassette to clean them and also the steering stem to take some measurements so I can design a new, improved one that will include a mount for my Garmin and a detachable bar for my lights.

 

[wisdom]

Mickled the chain on the commuter,and tried a couple of new to me products on the roadie.These were fenwicks foaming chain cleaner and cleaning sponge.Applied fenwicks stealth lube,i'll see how it fares.Using the roadie all week for work as its forecast a dry week.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

New chain on my fixed, cleaned the winters accumulated crud of the places its difficult to reach, and whilst I was doing that I changed the chainring, put a 46 on to replace the 44, gives me 68 inches instead of 65, added a half link to the chain to get the chain length where I wanted it and adjusted the rear brakes to take account of the different wheel position. Whilst I was working on the bike I had the front wheel off tyre tube and rim tape off and debured the spoke holes where the tube was damaged, The flat tonight was two small holes, pin pricks, rim side about a half an inch from the valve, some sort of damage to the tube, though I'm not sure what caused it, I debured the spoke holes just incase, the rim tape is in good condition and the spoke holes looked OK.

 

[thegravestoneman]

The cable covering on my 30 year old clarkes easyglide gear cable has started to peel and was gumming up the rear derailleur outer, so removed and peeled it off completely. On refitting managed to strip the thread on the clamp of my equally old Suntour Superb derailleur so stripped that to basics and re tapped it with an ugly old bolt that fitted the bill. So much for a sneaky round trip to York. Still all seems to be working well now