What Have You Fettled Today?

[fossyant]

The light mounting strap on my Topeak Panniers had started to unstitch - bear in mind I had two heafty lights on it. Removed the strap, and re-attached the 'tube' for the lights direct to the back of the pannier with cable ties ! Got to love cable ties !

 

[morrisman]

Stripped the little wheely parts (stop me if I'm being to technical) from my rear derailleur and cleaned and greased them, got rid of horrible noises :-)

 

[flatflr]

New Ultegra cassette (fitted by the LBS to save buying the tools) and chain (fitted by myself). Changing feels a lot crisper on the stand, looking forward to seeing if the changes feel as good on the road tomorrow.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Yesterday I put a 16" Marathon plus on a Brompton. It was well hard. Smaller tyres can be stiffer anyway and those Marathons have got a steel bead about half an inch thick. It must have taken about 20 minutes of grunting and sweating and I had to do away with any ideas of not using a tyre lever to get tyres on so was mightily relieved when I pumped it up and had managed not to pinch the tube. If that had happened I think I would have cried. There should be a machine to do the really tough ones.

 

[potsy]

About to fettle some new wheels onto the Caad, wish me luck

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Been getting some creaky noises from the bottom bracket area of my Verenti, my Verenti is on clipless and at first I thought I'd got a loose cleat, I've had problems with one of the cleats working loose, but no the cleats were tight so I cleaned the bottom of the shoe and the cleats and turned my attention to the pedals, Time Freerides, the bearings were still as tight and smooth as they were when I fitted them almost three years ago, so I cleaned them and then looked at the bottom bracket itself and that was running smooth with no play but I stripped the cranks off cleaned it up checked it over and lubed it, the left bearing is running as smooth as it was when new but theres a little roughness in the right bearing though theres no play, not too bad for almost three years and about 5000 miles, I checked the chain ring bolts and checked the cranks but all looks well, I'm hoping it just needed some TLC if not I'll have to replace the bearings.

 

[Cubist]

Guy at work mentioned that he'd trapped the brake cable on his commuter and the brakes no longer worked. Went and had a look and they were Deore LX hydraulic with dual controls. I had a couple of lengths of hose in the garage, ordered some new olives and barbs, and he brought it round tonight. New hose fitted, both sets of pads degreased and rotors cleaned, noticed his chain was in sh!t order and measured it to just under 1.0%. Treated him to my latest cast off .75%er and found it meshed perfectly well with his cassette. Rear QR skewer had a badly worn cam, so I raided my spares box for an old Shimano QR. He was well chuffed by the time we'd finished, but I was itching to wrestle it off him and give it a bloody good fettling.... an old Giant XTC with Bombers!!

 

[the_mikey]

Removed the old gear and brake cables on my road bike, installed new Jagwire cables. Cleaned and greased rear derailleur. Removed, cleaned and greased bottom bracket cups, cleaned and greased crank shaft. New exustar pedals to replace worn out look KeO pedals. Cleaned and greased headset bearings. New sealed bearings fitted in wheels. Jobs left to do: Fit new Conti Grand Prix tyres to wheels, and clean cycling shoes and re-fit cleats with some grease on the bolts to get rid of a creak.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Nothing to do with the bike (still off it at the moment, still not well). The mute switch on my iPhone 3G had broken in the mute position, so today was "operation open heart surgery on the iPhone" day. After 2 hours work the iPhone is now back together again and working as before (camera lens is cleaner though, case repaired, on/off switch not being quite so stubborn and sim card not constantly claiming it is not installed - so relatively sucessful), but it looks like I actually need to replace the entire mute switch section & cable because the iOS is still not responding to the change in the switch position even when the internal switch is moved...



The glue was to repair a section of the back which was broken on tour when my OH dropped the iPhone breaking the on/off switch. It is not the first time I have dismantelled it.

And for the more observant... yes that is a suction cup from the bathroom... I refuse to purchase a dedicated one when I have a perfectly good set of them in the bathroom!

 

[potsy]

New chain & casette fitted to the Secteur, even took the cranks off for a deep(er) clean

Was looking a tad dirty after a few wet commutes, pretty sure it was spotless the other day

 

[ianrauk]

 

[potsy]

Manchester grime too much for your southern eyeballs?

 

[ianrauk]

Manchester grime too much for your southern eyeballs?

ANY grime is too much for my eyeballs..

 

[fossyant]

Manchester grime too much for your southern eyeballs?

OMG Potsy. Flipping heck. I need a lie down.

 

[inkd]

New Clarks brake blocks fitted to rear on my hybrid also mudguards back on A) due to this unpredictable weather. B) removed to locate creaking sound but mysteriously has vanished after a good clean and lube of bike so refitted them.