What Have You Fettled Today?

[DCLane]

Can't do much at the moment due to an injured finger, but the Vision Trimax Carbon clip-on TT bars arrived at lunch-time. Which weren't carbon fibre, but a carbon wrap over aluminium, despite this being printed on the ski's: trade description failure? They've been put onto the Viner Mitus which is currently on the smart turbo. Hopefully that will help with me having to keep my right-hand index finger above the elbow.

On reflection I could have got son no. 2 to swap the 11-speed cassette on there for a 10-speed and put the TT bike on instead. But he's not here and SWMBO wouldn't be able to do it, so it'll have to do.

 

[november4]

Emergency cellar fettling!

This old house has a cold, damp cellar directly below my living room. There are air bricks in the outside wall of the cellar to ventilate it and keep that damp under control.

It has got so cold now though that I couldn't stand the freezing draught through the house and I couldn't afford to turn the heating up higher to compensate.

Apart from that, with the temperature forecast to drop to -12 C tonight and tomorrow night, I was worried about the water pipes potentially freezing solid down there. I have just been down and blocked off the air flow. It made an instant difference. The temperature has risen by 1 degree in the room above already without turning the heating up.

I will unblock the air bricks in a few days time when this cold spell is over.

We had an old 1920s bungalow like that, noticed when took carpet out and sanded the floorboards. I had to patch small gaps from contraction with sawdust & glue. In warmer weather had large crawlspace to allow insulation under the floor, not expensive to do yourself.
House had no insulation in loft either omg that was instant fix, the previous owners were just burning money with heating bills

 

[november4]

Swapping 2001 kona blasts original tyres & tubes

 

[iandg]

Back home after an 18 month sabbatical commuting across Edinburgh with one of my lads. My 631 Henry Burton Audax/Fast Tourer. Stripped down and cleaned today ready for a rebuild. Looking forward to riding it again

This photo from 2007 (got the frame in summer 2005 so nearly 20 years old). It's only had 1 respray since then.