What Have You Fettled Today?

[XRHYSX]

Fettled my garage, took the day off, assembled bike stand, wall mounts, washed and cleaned all bikes:

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Love it, no more excuses for a dirty bottom
bracket,

I like that style of garage door, I loose so much wall space with the common up and over type. I do like a tidy work space

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've had the wheels of my fixed tonight, cleaned up the rim, removed some sharp edges and put new rim tape on, should stop my run of rimside flats.

 

[HLaB]

Put a new rear wheel on the fixie tonight (the old one had been driven in to).

 

[wisdom]

Wow nice set up.How are they supported?

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Test fitted a pannier rack in readiness for a 4 day ride I'll be doing in a few weeks time.

 

[Sillyoldman]

Decided it was time to pluck up courage and have a first try at truing a slight rear wheel buckle. By Jove it worked. Thanks You Tube.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

My new wheels (Fulcrum Racing 7 CX's) arrived on Thursday evening, (only ordered from Germany on Monday afternoon). New cassette (SRAM PG850 11-28) & chain arrived on Wednesday, but I was out all day yesterday, so after the weekly shopping was done, it was time to assemble and fit to the Triban 3. No need to adjust the rear derailuer - but I have had to adjust the brakes quite significantly and had one considerably fight with the SRAM quick link which just down right refused to close shut... Had to call in help on that front, but my OH finally managed to get it to click shut. Pray I never had to remove it again! One issue that has surfaced is that my cateye sensor & magnet are going to have to be moved to the non-drive side of the wheel - but I have no small cable ties available. I also plan to change the red water bottle cage over to another black one.

A quick test of around 1/2km has shown nothing to have fallen off, so hoping (fingers crossed) for a longer test ride later today, but I may need to get some new tyres as well because these ones are showing all the signs of perishing...

(yep - I know the rack & the mudguards are not the prettiest in the world, but they work more or less.)

 

[Deleted member 23692]

The rack is cool - I fitted one yesterday (two posts up form yours) Wheels look great too!

Today's task was to sort out a scuffing disc brake on my MTB, which should only be a two minute job... with bike on the work stand I gently spun the wheel and listened for the scuff, scuff, scuff sound. But as the wheel slowed down every scuff was accompanied with a mystery 'slosh'. So dropped the tyre and tube off and it very wet inside. Water had got in through the spoke eyelets so that's all been left to dry out.

Whilst cursing the rain god for flooding my rim a parcel arrived, so I had some extra fettling to bide the time whilst the tyre/tube/rim dried out. So I set to work and fitted my new saddle to my roadie, and very nice it is too

 

[RussellZero]

Wow nice set up.How are they supported?

Do you mean the garage?

http://m.evanscycles.com/products/delta/leonardo-wall-mount-ec009787

 

[gaz]

Cleaned the bike, readjusted brakes, removed pie plate. Still can't figure out how to use the jagwire barrel adjusters, they don't want to turn :/
Eugh just realised I was trying to turn the wrong thing, the adjuster for the rear-derailer is by it. Just re-indexed my gears, all working now

 

[compo]

I am doing up an old Raleigh road bike. It is totaly stripped and the frame and forks are with the powder coaters. Yesterday and today I dismantled all the equipment and cleaned, polished and lubricated where needed. The brakes and cranks have a nice lustre now I have removed the tarnishing and polished them, and the chainwheels gleam. It looks like years of grease or dirty oil protected them from the weather. That's as far as I have progressed so far. I need new pedals. the originals are too rusty to salvage, as is the chrome seat post, so if anyone has a 1" ally seat post I would be interested before hitting Ebay. I will do some photo's when I get the frame back.

 

[biggs682]

fitted some koolstops and changed wheels over on 60's Holdsworth then took it for quick 2 mile spin

 

[thegravestoneman]

Little bit of a session on the old Sara, new head set fitted, block stripped and greased, front and rear brakes dismantled cleaned and greased. It is amazing what the lack of anything on tele can make you do.

 

[thegravestoneman]

Also just acquired a 'new' Sara (tour) one from the Madison days so is a bit modern for me (probably 1990s) as it still has down tube shifters), it is a bit of a high mileage shed at the moment but with alloy frame it will do for a winter hack to replace the unliked Raleigh I have at the moment. I have started to strip it down and have to replace or rebuild a lot of parts. I might even see if I can get some handlebar shifters and the like for it to see what the fuss is about? I will probably go for an 8 speed if the prices are favourable on ebay etc. This is all if my beloved doesn't buckle and lets me loose with our holiday money down at the local Bianchi dealer .

 

[wisdom]

Yes i did thanks for the link.
Wizz