What Have You Fettled Today?

[Punkawallah]

Seems to be OK; I’ll call that a win.

Or not. Went out to do an hour yesterday, flat again.
So, stripped the wheel off, went round the spokes checking for correct length, replacing or shortening likely culprits, smoothing off spoke nuts, truing the wheel and putting it all back together again. Bike is in disgrace, hanging on the wall sans rear wheel, while I wait to see if said wheel behaves. Working on ‘carrot and stick’, I have also bought two new tubes - but only to be used if the tyre remains inflated. S’that sykerology, innit?

 

[Gwylan]

Well, I fudged the heavy chain to fit my U bolt.
Now I can carry an extra 3 kg worth of weight to protect the bike
This is the bike I spent many hundreds of pounds extra on to lose 3 kg of unnecessary weight.
Funny old world.

 

[Punkawallah]

Well, I fudged the heavy chain to fit my U bolt.
Now I can carry an extra 3 kg worth of weight to protect the bike
This is the bike I spent many hundreds of pounds extra on to lose 3 kg of unnecessary weight.
Funny old world.

Yer. S’a giggle a kilogram, innit?

 

[HLaB]

Put a cleat spacer under the spd cleat on my new mtb/gravel shoes. My road bike spd-sl is shimmed by 2.5mm so I could have done with a second spacer but one will have to do just now until I get longer cleat bolts.

 

[ColinJ]

Put a cleat spacer under the spd cleat on my new mtb/gravel shoes. My road bike spd-sl is shimmed by 2.5mm so I could have done with a second spacer but one will have to do just now until I get longer cleat bolts.

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I would do that but I don't fancy having the cleat sticking out beyond the 'bumpers' either side of it.

 

[HLaB]

I would do that but I don't fancy having the cleat sticking out beyond the 'bumpers' either side of it.

Yeah, there is that disadvantage but it's outweighed by pain if I don't shim.

 

[cyberknight]

Im undecided whether to continue with the cx build i have , the frame might have been decent in the day but it is so abused and tatty i wonder if its worth the effort .

 

[Punkawallah]

Or not. Went out to do an hour yesterday, flat again.
So, stripped the wheel off, went round the spokes checking for correct length, replacing or shortening likely culprits, smoothing off spoke nuts, truing the wheel and putting it all back together again. Bike is in disgrace, hanging on the wall sans rear wheel, while I wait to see if said wheel behaves. Working on ‘carrot and stick’, I have also bought two new tubes - but only to be used if the tyre remains inflated. S’that sykerology, innit?

O me miserum, delicti puerii/puellii!
The gods of Physics and Comedy have laid me low again!
3/4 of the way into this morning's ride, the back tyre is flat again!

On post mortem, the hole is this time found on the outside of the inner tube! After turning the tyre inside out trying to find the cause, behold! 2-3mm of curved wire, which retracted into the tyre when . . . outside in. Cunning (catting?), or what?
(Another) puncture fixed.

It seems the gods must first drive me mad before destroying me. Tomorrow is another day.

 

[DCLane]

Clipped a hidden tree trunk on the way into work this morning on the Merida Cyclo-Cross - a cross-country route to Leeds canal appealed. The result was the left crank at 90/270 degrees which wasn't ideal.

Dismantling it revealed worn crank threads on both sides: it's an old Ultegra 6800 which has been used for a lot of commuting and off-road stuff. So ... scoot-a-bike home and a replacement was needed.

A hunt in the parts shed found an unused Ultegra 8000 crankset with the same 50/34 chainrings that I picked up a couple of years ago from memory. The same length as well since we run two different lengths across our bikes - son no. 2 uses different length cranks to me as his mum's a Leprechaun.

SPD pedals off, old crankset off, bottom bracket facings cleaned, greased, new crankset on, pedals back on and all seems fine. I'll know for definite on tomorrow's commute.

 

[sevenfourate]

Clipped a hidden tree trunk on the way into work this morning on the Merida Cyclo-Cross - a cross-country route to Leeds canal appealed. The result was the left crank at 90/270 degrees which wasn't ideal.

Dismantling it revealed worn crank threads on both sides: it's an old Ultegra 6800 which has been used for a lot of commuting and off-road stuff. So ... scoot-a-bike home and a replacement was needed.

A hunt in the parts shed found an unused Ultegra 8000 crankset with the same 50/34 chainrings that I picked up a couple of years ago from memory. The same length as well since we run two different lengths across our bikes - son no. 2 uses different length cranks to me as his mum's a Leprechaun.

SPD pedals off, old crankset off, bottom bracket facings cleaned, greased, new crankset on, pedals back on and all seems fine. I'll know for definite on tomorrow's commute.

You stayed in the saddle I take it ? I bet that was a ‘whack’……😳

 

[Jameshow]

You stayed in the saddle I take it ? I bet that was a ‘whack’……😳

Surprised you did t puncture a tyre?!

 

[DCLane]

You stayed in the saddle I take it ? I bet that was a ‘whack’……😳

Definitely a whack, but stayed on OK.

Surprised you did t puncture a tyre?!

Agreed. I've been running Cinturato Hard 35mm tyres and they're been quite impressive.

 

[HLaB]

I think when I extracted the pin to size the new chain I made the mistake using the open backed Topeak chain tool and allowed to slip slightly (Every other chain tool I have has an adjustable screw back which holds everything tight). As a result I pushed out an inner plate the roller fell out and even though I'd put it back, the quick link wasnt running smoothly round it and was sitting at a slight angle instead of running straight especially in the small ring. So I reopened the quick link and marginally pushed the inner plate square and clamped everything up before refitting the quick link. 🤞 Everything seems to be running taught/ smooth now and the QR is running straight.

 

[roley poley]

Another case of picking out discarded fishing line from the freewheel cogs and derailleur on the tow path ...I now carry a mounted razor blade in the puncture patch kit box for this repeating event

 

[si_c]

Replaced a bunch of sensor batteries on two bikes. Replaced the ones on the other bike last week. Between that and the kitchen and bathroom scaled, I need new CR2032 batteries now though.