Punkawallah
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There are only two words that terrify me in the English language, 'just' and 'only'. As in 'it will just be a ten minute job', or 'it will only take half a day'.
What Have You Fettled Today?
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There are only two words that terrify me in the English language, 'just' and 'only'. As in 'it will just be a ten minute job', or 'it will only take half a day'.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
The post tour tandem fettling continues apace* - basically now doing all the things we did before the tour on the original tandem again on the new to us one.
Yesterday took everything off the old tandem; today was crank and BB greasing on the new one. (a) because it should be done and (b) in the probably forlorn hope of solving a couple of the creaks that have manifested themselves.
Naturally it all took far longer than it should have.
Without going into gory details, ended up taking forever to get crank puller to engage in one of the three, finally got cranks off, decided to replace with the old ones whose threads are in good nick for the future, swapped over timing chainrings on those, found dampness and rust down to eccentric BB (who knows from where) so poured WD40 down seat tube, cleaned and greased everything.
Next up: swap handlebars, replace all cable inners and outers (new inners and compressionless outers have just arrived). Should be about a 10 minute job I reckon.👍
* i.e. a very slow pace
Yesterday took everything off the old tandem; today was crank and BB greasing on the new one. (a) because it should be done and (b) in the probably forlorn hope of solving a couple of the creaks that have manifested themselves.
Naturally it all took far longer than it should have.
Without going into gory details, ended up taking forever to get crank puller to engage in one of the three, finally got cranks off, decided to replace with the old ones whose threads are in good nick for the future, swapped over timing chainrings on those, found dampness and rust down to eccentric BB (who knows from where) so poured WD40 down seat tube, cleaned and greased everything.
Next up: swap handlebars, replace all cable inners and outers (new inners and compressionless outers have just arrived). Should be about a 10 minute job I reckon.👍
* i.e. a very slow pace
