What Have You Fettled Today?

[gavgav]

Serviced my cousin's Carrera MTB. The rear hub needs a new bearing cone on the non-drive side due to pitting, but that has had to be ordered so it's all been regreased and gone back together for the time being. 1 ball bearing and the skewer spring missing from that side too.

When you coming to fettle mine?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

When you coming to fettle mine?

Your bike will be easier as it's not done so many miles yet. When would be convenient?

 

[gavgav]

Satu

Your bike will be easier as it's not done so many miles yet. When would be convenient?

Saturrday morning? Going to the footy in the afternoon but can do the morning. 10.30?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Satu
Saturrday morning? Going to the footy in the afternoon but can do the morning. 10.30?

PM sent.

 

[Kookas]

I fitted new wheels (Fulcrum R5s) to my bike, cleaned my frame, and followed it through with a proper clean and oil of the drive train.

Before, the bike sounded ready to disintegrate into its base parts. Without the grinding from dirt-packed jockey wheels or the sticking of cheap, poorly greased hubs, the bike feels and sounds absolutely amazing. Honestly, the difference was night and day.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I put some new brake blocks on my front wheel.The old ones were showing metal! Ten quid a pair from the LBS, for the same ones on sale at eighteen quid elsewhere!

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Found a 2010 Cevelo S2 frame set I never knew I had, inspected it and relocated it to the same place as my other spare frames. No idea what I'm gonna do with it.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

decided today was too hot for cycling, so fettling it was instead. under the tree in the shade. road and mountain bikes washed in lovely cool water, then it was tlc time for both of them.. the road bike has been skipping on the smaller rings on the cassette but only when out and about, not on the turbo trainer.... and the mountain bike picked up a curious rattle on last night's ride which seemed to be related to the front brake pads... so they have been extracted, cleaned and returned and the noise seems to have gone. tomorrow's mtb ride will soon test that theory.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Fitted two new water bottles into the cages on my road bike.... it's too hot to do anything else

 

[mr_hippo]

Can we include on here epic fettling failures? If so... I had an unscheduled deflation incident last week. The tyre was new with only 225kms on it. The tread had a small nick in it but I was only about 7 kms from home.
I remember reading somewhere, possibly on here, about repairing small defects in the tread (not the wall), with superglue so I thought I would give it a try. It works but ... only if you want to burn a hole in the tyre!

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Pedals, pedals and more pedals. I went over to service @gavgav's bike (well, more of a checkover/adjust really as it's still quite new). The one thing that it really did need was the pedals stripping and regreasing as they were quite gritty.

On the way home, my left pedal sheared off, which was rather inconvenient. I've had to buy a replacement set and since my knockabout bike and both my siblings bikes used the same pedals I was a bit concerned about them suffering the same problem so had to investigate.

The knockabout bike has gone back to an old set of pedals for the time being and the ones that came off have been stripped for inspection. I can't find any obvious fault, but not sure I trust them enough to refit as the bike tends to get some hard use.

My brother's pedals have been rebuilt using the good parts from a low mileage but externally damaged set, so they should be sorted. Looking at the spindles that came out, his would have been the next to fail.

My sister's bike will have to be checked at a later date.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

This morning's ride included a few miles along an unfenced gated road where cattle are kept, so this afternoon's job has been removing all the splattered turd from.... well.... pretty much everywhere .

 

[Gravity Aided]

Fenders- because sometimes you are not just riding through water.

 

[musa]

Well quiet day at work so fitted some kcnc jockey wheels cheap price for them so you know

Fitted new bottle cages new brake cables greaaed stem bolts and pedals. Straightened rear fork

Chain cleaned brakes calipers cleaned
Fantastic job

 

[Cubist]

I had a puzzler, which was the Blackspire Stinger dropping to 6 o'clock after a few miles riding. It's mounted on the BB in place of one of the HT2 spacers, so I took off the cranks, cleaned the BB shell face, the stinger mounting plate and the inside edge of the BB cups and torqued it up to level F on the "That ain't coming undone in a hurry" scale. It survived my ride this evening, so we'll see. Oh, and then I treated the whole bike to a good clean as dust was getting in every crevice.

Cubester then rocks up to say his rear brake was pulling to the bars without resistance. It's a Hope tech M4, so I took off the reservoir cap to discover an empty res. Cubester spotted that the diaphragm had a cut in the sealing edge, and fortunately I had a spare in the rummage part of the toolbox. That fitted and a new pair of kevlar pads, good clean and bleed and it was good to go.