Warm it up, it'll expand fractionally and become slightly more flexible so will be easier to seat.
What Have You Fettled Today?
- Thread starter threebikesmcginty
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
PedallingNowhereSlowly
Über Member
That's a good shout.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Finished the cx build today , needed a new cassette as the old one was too far gone to mesh with the new chain and added bar tape .
Need to get some colour coordinating frame stickers as you can see i only had yellow
Might need to fiddle with the saddle to get the fit dialled in but its pretty much done
Need to get some colour coordinating frame stickers as you can see i only had yellow
Might need to fiddle with the saddle to get the fit dialled in but its pretty much done
All uphill
Still rolling along
- Location
- Somerset
I had a couple of hours on Friday afternoon, so I thought I'd change the headset on my old Marin. It was a very basic one I fitted in 2019, and it was creaking following a ride in heavy rain before Xmas.
A 4pm start and I already have the decent quality replacement. Just need to remove wheel, remove stem, undo nuts, pop off bearing seats and replace. Should be done by 6pm.
Then every part of the job became difficult. The stem was stuck, the bearing seats didn't want to come off, my homemade press was nowhere to be found. I stopped at 8pm rather jaded.
Started again at 11 today. Finally got the new top and bottom cups in place, but nothing would persuade the new race to go on the top of the fork. I gave up after another four hours of low productivity.
Tomorrow I will have another look and think. Maybe see if I can construct a better DIY tool to pop it on. Grrrr.
Is it me? Have I just forgotten how infuriating simple jobs can be?
A 4pm start and I already have the decent quality replacement. Just need to remove wheel, remove stem, undo nuts, pop off bearing seats and replace. Should be done by 6pm.
Then every part of the job became difficult. The stem was stuck, the bearing seats didn't want to come off, my homemade press was nowhere to be found. I stopped at 8pm rather jaded.
Started again at 11 today. Finally got the new top and bottom cups in place, but nothing would persuade the new race to go on the top of the fork. I gave up after another four hours of low productivity.
Tomorrow I will have another look and think. Maybe see if I can construct a better DIY tool to pop it on. Grrrr.
Is it me? Have I just forgotten how infuriating simple jobs can be?
Last edited:
