What Have You Fettled Today?

[cyberknight]

Put the Madison flux on the commuter and although it's better it still isn't perfect, I may have to bite the bullet and get a proper bike fit done as no saddle seems right

 

[Gwylan]

I can report I fettled the dehumidifier. A £20 spare refurbished the machine
I feel I have saved £180 by this action.
So I have £180 to spend (squander). But these are Thames Water pounds and exist only in the imagination of the beholder.

 

[All uphill]

New to me Shimano Deore RapidRise derailleur arrived in the post.

It looked a bit manky so I've given it a good clean, disassembled and cleaned the Jockey wheels, reassembled the whole thing and put it in my stores. It's ready for a day when I'm motivated to put it on my utility bike.

 

[Jameshow]

Put the Madison flux on the commuter and although it's better it still isn't perfect, I may have to bite the bullet and get a proper bike fit done as no saddle seems right

Try a turbo / rolls saddle?

 

[HLaB]

Went out tonight to test the rotated bars on the Gravel bike whilst it stopped the hands going numb when I last rotated them the fingers still had a numb like feeling. So I was testing the new position.

It was worse for the fingers!

So I came back and found a shorter stem fitted that and whilst it doesn't look nice it'll do for testing tomorrow.

On hindsight though, I allowed my fingers to get too cold on a low intensity recovery ride. I may need to keep things intense in future :-/

 

[sevenfourate]

Black paint in the kitchen - you are confident in your ability to avoid drips and spills!

I was touching in a few small spots with a tiny brush and / or the pointed shaft of a cotton bud - not painting the ceiling with a tar brush. Thankfully 😁

This evening I’ve replaced the 12 year old Derailleur jockey wheels (Overdue by the look of the removed items)

And also fitted some Welgo pedals for a bit more contrasting Silver colour:

Would have fitted a polished seatpost too. If the first seller had sent the right size. Or the second seller had the item In stock - and didn’t tell me / find out until they were about to despatch 🙄

 

[HLaB]

I rotated the hoods in slightly tonight and went again at circa 50% MHR . Its hard to say if it was that or that my heated gloves were on full blast but the left hand stayed good tonight and only the left hand fingers numbed up and they un-numbed pretty quick as I fumbled for my jacket zip so I could get my keys.

It may also have been that I had my front light on full and when I encountered peds circa twice a lap. I took my left hand of the bar to shield the light or that I had to take off the right glove once to fix my garmin.

 

[Gunk]

Front brakes pads changed on the S1000R, I was having some vibration with very slow speed braking, looks like I found the problem, one of the pads had disintegrated, no damage to the disc so looks I caught it just in time. I also used the opportunity to fit genuine BMW pads.

does make you wonder how thorough the MOT process is, the pads were knackered.

 

[Big John]

Got ready to go out for a ride this morning. Got on the bike ready to push off and the pedals went round but the bike remained where it was. The freehub pawls had stuck. I can't pretend I didn't suspect it was going to happen. The signs have been there for a week or two. Took about an hour to swap out the old and replace with a new one out of my 'stock' box. Finally got on the road and had to do a couple of indexing tweaks on the hoof before normal service was resumed.

 

[Jenkins]

Finally got round to replacing the metal clip at the brake bridge that the Raceblade Longs attach to - I'd bent it while attaching them a week or so ago and just left it as the mudguard could still be attached, just not completely secured. While the bike was on the stand I took the opportunity to give it a quick clean, lubricate the chain and a make a slight tweak to the front & rear derailleur cables.

 

[8mph]

A big chunk of the day spent on mechanics, by the end of which I was semi-convinced that reducing the fleet to just hardtail and touring bike is the way forward

Pedals, mech cages, chainring and suspension all tweaked. Tyres changed and a big pile of inner tubes sorted. Strips of old inner tube used to reduce chain slap and pading for stem mounted phone holder.

 

[DCLane]

I've stuck a 40cm carbon pair of handlebars on the Holdsworth Roi de Velo for a track test tomorrow at Manchester velodrome, in order to see what running a narrower set of bars feels like. I'm booked onto the 'taster' then the regular rider sessions tomorrow evening to give me up to two hours' track time. Technically they're son no. 2's which were kept in case we swapped his hillclimb Ridley Helium from a 'hillclimb' to a 'road' set-up.

Also, the Merida Cyclo-Cross was thoroughly cleaned, with a new chain and cassette. The rear derailleur hanger turned out to be loose, which explained the lack of top gears. It still needs new cables but they can wait a little bit.

My Viner Mitus also received a new chain and thorough clean ahead of going on the smart turbo.

And a re-organise of the parts and bike store so that I can access the three project bikes to do over the winter (NeilPryde Bayamo TT & Rideback Platinum to 11 speed / Principia continued re-furb), the Ridley Fenix frameset for a bike build, plus the Carlton & Harry Perry I currently have for sale.

 

[sevenfourate]

Fitted the new Polished seat-post Friday night. Along with a rear mudguard. Primarily because after the last ride - the road-grime on my jersey was so ingrained: I spent more than its value in powders, lotions and potions trying to get it out…….🙄 🤣

Picture is of the ‘After clean’ / lube / check-over after Saturdays ride.

 

[EckyH]

Fitted permanent mudguards on the Langschenkelrenner.
The advantage of wet roads is that the effect of mudguards are instantly visible.

E.

 

[cyberknight]

started stripping the vanquish i acquired for parts, i think the original owner rode it as a mtb and never cleaned it as i had to scrape dried muck .mud and oil off with a screwdriver .
Managed to get the cranks and rear derailleur serviceable so far , the shifters i know work and they are ok but i am not even going to touch the BB for the sake of a new one for what £10-15 ?