What Have You Fettled Today?

[ianrauk]

Changed thge bar tape on the Kona Commuter and the Van Nich... now both looking nice and lush..

 

[fossyant]

Got a rather nice GT MTB in the garage to fettle for my mate. A good few years old, but a full susser, XT and XTR through out, rockshock front and rear but the hydraulic brakes are goosed. The levers have busted, so that doesnt give me much hope for the callipers. It is very light.

Have advised him he may need to go to he LBS for the brakes, but I will sort the rest. Its yet another mate that picked up a bike from a mate for a song. This MTB is worth a couple of £k

 

[Andrew Brown]

What brakes are on it? I'll have a mint set of hydro avids coming off the new commuter when I put it on to drop bars and bb7s...

 

[compo]

I couldn't get the adjustment of the headset just right on the Raleigh I have just done up. To take out the play meant the bearings were too tight. Initially I put it down to simply having to let all the new bits bed in, but decided this was wrong thinking. To find the problem I have just stripped out the whole headset assembly which only took a few minutes. The fault quickly became obvious. I had installed the lower bearing cage upside down. Must have been a senior moment. Anyway, with correct orientation and all reassembled the assembly is perfect. Also, though not actually an error, I had routed the brake cables to the front of the handlebars. While the bars were off the bike, and the front brake was removed from the fork, I re-routed them behind the bars where they look better. Last night I also swapped out the semi sealed bottom bracket for a fully sealed Shimano unit. I think I can now declare the job's finished and is a good'un.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Sorted out a scuffing brake, which was due to a slightly warped disc. Rather than spend a silly amount of money on the proper tool (essentially a metal bar with a slot in it), I just used an adjustable spanner set to lightly grip the disc. A few gentle flexings later, the scuffing's gone

Today's quick tweak took place whilst waiting for my tea to mash

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Two new spokes fitted to the Day-One, chain and gear selection also fettled, changed pedals on the P-X too.
Mowed the lawn an all if that could be considered fettling.

 

[Breedon]

Replaced my 105 triple to a double, new cassette and new chain just need to make a few minor adjustments.

 

[derrick]

I did not fettle anything today.

 

[Hicky]

After today's ride using the f-in-laws spare bike(GT outpost) it needs a total overhaul, the bb is goosed/brakes need stripping and lubing/hubs need servicing and front mech won't go in the large ring, ill probably endue with that job(he can do the wallpapering,see below).
Son no2's new(eBay) hotrock needs the mudguards raising as they are fouling the tyre and the chain lubing.
My crosscheck needs a strip clean and checking over....I have tick/creak on the left crank, could be the spd.
Boiler won't maintain dhw and keeps cycling on off, must check thermister (hope it is that) or the secondary heat exchanger is full of crud(hope it isn't that!).....two freshly plastered walls that will need priming and papering soon...I'm not worried about this as the paper hasn't turned up in the house yet,lol.

 

[HLaB]

Put a new chain on the fixie today and swapped its seat clamp (the original one was bent) and then went for a wee test ride.

 

[fossyant]

Had a good fettle of my Mates GT i drive 2. Nice bike indeed, has Rock Shox Psylo SL front and a Rock Shox rear. Both are adjustable. The rear suspension looks complex with a massive BB housing that pivots for the rear. XT chainset and shifters, XTR rear mech and LX front. Knackered brakes are Formula R4 or similar, cant quite read the lettering? Front lever is broken as the piston is snapped and the reservoir leaks, and the rears work but drag heavily. Wheels are a bit cheap, but are fine. As mentioned this was bought for £500 a number of years ago. The brakes and wheels let it down, but I need to let my mate know it will cost £60 plus to sort it with the brakes. He is short of cash at the minute as was recently made redundant. Might look at a good mechanical set.

 

[Theseus]

Fitted 2nd hand derailleur, cleaned & adjusted rear wheel bearings, fitted new freewheel cassette, chain and brake blocks on the Odyssey.
Removed broken mudguards from T2000 and put on a seatpost & saddle
Basic fettling ... chain clean, brake check, tyres pumped, gears tweaked on all the rest of the bikes in the shed (3 kids and another 3 of mine)
All bikes now fit and well and able to report for duty as required.

One of the advantages of having English bank holidays when the wife and kids don't.

 

[potsy]

Put away all my winter cycling gear

 

[Boris Bajic]

Took a CB Cotswold step-through bike out of the cellar for my wife to start using as a shopper again. Very uncool and very cutesy-cutesy, but what a solid piece of bicycle!

Four years in the cellar while she's been riding other stuff and it came out rideable. Air in the tyres, oil on the transmission and a wipe down.

Whicker basket, comfortable saddle, low-end Shimano triple with seven (well spread) on the rear. Nice canti brakes and just good cycle parts and levers and saddle and everything.

After an hour or so of fettling and lubing and cleaning and adjusting it is almost like new. God bless bog-standard bicycles.

 

[Idoru]

Tried to have a ride yesterday, got a couple of streets from home and realised I couldn't shift out the big ring on the front, so tootled back to base to get it sorted.

A couple of hours later I remembered just how mechanically inept I am, put the bike away and started shopping for a new one... that one's ruined now

I'll have another go at it tonight when I have a bit more patience.