What Have You Fettled Today?

[gbb]

Sometimes you start a job..half asleep as such, not thinking the whole thing through.
Wife's bike, setting it up for the turbo, so I've just swapped the rear wheel for a new QR job.
For a start, the OLN distance is different, so a little 'manipulation' of the rear triangle required.
The valve hole is a tad too big, nothing I could do about that, tube fitted and hope it holds till I get a new tube.
No rim tape...didn't even occur to me, duh. Swapped it off the old wheel ok.
Fitted wheel, she tries it, the gears are all over....doh, I need to adjust the RD of course.

No big deal really, just hadn't planned it through so each step kinda took me by surprise. All done easily in the end.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Should probably have noticed sooner, only noticed when back wheel felt buckled when coming back from Reach fair with the kids.

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New wheels, Ultegra wheels front and back. They apparently accept tubeless as well as clinchers, new fangled stuff. No need for rim tape, and the tyre makes a very disturbing noise as it seats itself. Managed to trap the tube first time round, and that made a loud noise when it let go.

No, fair enough. The damage is barely perceptible so it's very easy to see how you might have missed this.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Fettled nothing yet. I am mustering my enthusiasm with coffee.

 

[alicat]

Today I serviced my first pair of pedals, Shimano spd pedals.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

New bars fitted and wrapped, neatest job I've done on it.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I spent about 75 minutes cleaning my pride and joy today, pretty good considering I had the flu the last 2 days, so I suspect I'm better now . Must be all that cycling giving me an awesome immune system! The cleaning included, as usual:

• Thorough wipe from top to bottom, of frame, and all the bits and pieces;
• Extra thorough wipe of wheel rims, as the last week was very wet and the rims were covered in greasy dirt;
• Removed the rear wheel, sprayed degreaser on the rear cassette, and left the wheel (cassette facing down, naturally) to drip-dry while I attended to the rest of the bike;
• Wiped the chain, both derailleurs and the front chain rings, and also used some degreaser on the chain. I don't normally do this, but it had some surface rust from all the rain we got last week, and some of this rust was on the inside surfaces of the links and so wasn't so easy to wipe off;
• Oiled the chain, and spun the pedals backwards to work in the oil, then wiped the excess oil off;
• Put the rear wheel back on, and adjusted both brakes. I only needed to adjust the tension screws this time, as the new brake cables I installed several weeks ago don't appear to be stretching any more;
• Pumped both tyres up: rear to 100psi front to 95psi, and AirZound bottle to 90psi;
• Put the newly-cleaned mudguards back on.

Here's the end result! Isn't she a beauty?

This is the nice clean drivetrain:

This is the front mudguard, an SKS. I bolted rubber flaps to both ends, and the result is very satisfactory, with very little water splashing onto my legs or the bike's frame. The rubber band on the front end is to stop it rattling as I go over bumps, and this works very well.

This is the rear mudguard, with another custom mud flap on the rear, a bit larger than on the front. It's very effective at stopping water splashing my seat post-mounted saddlebag (the mount for the saddlebag is at the top of the picture):

Not too shabby for a bike I've just passed 60,000km on, 4 years and 6 months after I bought it. It's still as quiet as the day I bought it. I love my bike, and I love cycling. That is all .

 

[wisdom]

Nice set of photos Victor

 

[potsy]

I spent about 75 minutes cleaning my pride and joy today, .

I spent about 7.5 minutes doing the same

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I spent about 7.5 minutes doing the same

I knew there was something I meant to do today.

 

[potsy]

I knew there was something I meant to do today.

I did the best one (and easiest to clean) then put the commuter on the stand and went to make a brew, it's still there waiting

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

My fettling today consisted of attempting to fit some bar ends to my brother's bike , and cutting the grips to completely the wrong length.

He says that they were already damaged from his big crash last summer and he doesn't mind getting some more. Aren't little brothers good.

 

[Martyn H]

More a case of what I didn't fettle - Went out for a ride came back thinking that the hills were hard today, then twigged that I forgot to check the tyre pressures before setting off

 

[derrick]

Fitted new saddle yesterday, did a 60 mile ride today and my bum feels lovely.

 

[Salad Dodger]

Fettled (well actually stripped all the wallpaper off) 2 bedrooms at my brother in law's new house.

He's working himself into the ground trying to get it habitable in the next 4 weeks, so he can move in when his present house is old. So Mrs Salad and I took pity on him and helped today, which sort of got the job back onto schedule......

 

[musa]

As I was cleaning the house, I discovered my flat tyre had gone flat overnight. so i gave the wheels a wash then the frame a good wash down, lubed cables and lubed the chain. Now its gleaming in the sun