What Have You Fettled Today?

[deanE]

packed my Sirrus into bike box ready to be picked up later in week. Off to John O Groats on Friday 3 May for End to end. More concerned about the bike making its way safely to Wick than I am about the trip back to Cornwall.

 

[Psycolist]

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

I had exactly the same experience with those adjusters, it must be a dodgy design, it cant possibly be that we are both as daft as each other.....! anywayi'd rather be riding.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Just changed the tyres on our lasses bike. I reckon the old ones had been on it at least 13 years

 

[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.

I have the frame back this morning and have refitted the headset and forks. The headset fitted easily and would have been a good job if I hadn't reversed the cups. I didn't notice that the top cup was over the crown race and vice-versa. I was puzzling why the stack height was so far out before the penny dropped. 5 minutes later all was sorted. The crown race went about three quarters on before stopping. I removed it and let it sit in some boiling water for a couple of minutes to expand it then it just dropped all the way on with no persuasion. Within a few seconds it was stuck in place solid. That'll do for today. I have just ordered a pair of wheels. Time I have finished it would have been cheaper to have bought a half decent bike in the first place! This way though I can do it bit by bit as I can afford it. The bit that looks like a paint run just under the upper race is in fact a small blob of weld. I was going to grind it out before giving it to the painters but forgot so now I have to live with it.

 

[Fuzzball]

I cleaned my fixie, but only to take photos before putting it up for sale, never used since I rode it home

 

[fossyant]

Reset the headset on the fixed. Started making alarming clicks on the way home.

Popped off the stem, removed upper pre load cap and then took out the preload split washer. Cleaned and greased and refitted, noise gone.

 

[Archeress]

I have just fettled the bottom bracket for the first time ever. Never had the tools before, but now I think the Lidl worshop tool kit has almost paid for itself.

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Modified and fitted a pump bracket to the knockabout bike. It's the sort that fits on to bottle cage mounts and sits the pump to the side so it's out of the way of the bottle cage - okay, nice idea but not what I wanted.

A couple of extra holes drilled in the mount and it fits with cable ties instead and doesn't stick out to one side. I've also cut down an old helmet strap and buckle to make sure the pump won't pop out of its clip on rough ground.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

fixed 3 inner tubes that had been hanging off a dining room chair for "a while". 1 had 2 holes which was news to me... should have only had 1.... and another inner tube completely fails to repair though and I am now down to my last patch.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Fitted my lastest ebay bargain (£10), which will hopefully cure my magically descending seatpost

Serious clamping power!

 

[Blurb]

Adjusted front derailleur on commuter.
Patched\rebooted a couple of servers remotely.

 

[derrick]

Fitted a Campagnolo carbon crank, and new saddle looks great, that's a few more grams saved.

 

[Cubist]

Swapped the SLX shifters on my Cotic for a used (but nice) pair of XT shifters. Not much weight difference, but much smoother action, and nice looking alloy paddles. Needed new inner cables though, and the ones on weren't all that old.

 

[Psycolist]

I have the frame back this morning and have refitted the headset and forks. The headset fitted easily and would have been a good job if I hadn't reversed the cups. I didn't notice that the top cup was over the crown race and vice-versa. I was puzzling why the stack height was so far out before the penny dropped. 5 minutes later all was sorted. The crown race went about three quarters on before stopping. I removed it and let it sit in some boiling water for a couple of minutes to expand it then it just dropped all the way on with no persuasion. Within a few seconds it was stuck in place solid. That'll do for today. I have just ordered a pair of wheels. Time I have finished it would have been cheaper to have bought a half decent bike in the first place! This way though I can do it bit by bit as I can afford it. The bit that looks like a paint run just under the upper race is in fact a small blob of weld. I was going to grind it out before giving it to the painters but forgot so now I have to live with it.

Thats a sweet lookin job. Love the tip with the water and the crown race. Any similar gems of knowledge about crown race removal ? Aso like the colour, there is just altogether too much silver and black on modern bikes IMHO.

 

[billy1561]

New chain fitted to my cube.