What Have You Fettled Today?

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MichaelO

Guru
Big cleaning session this afternoon, and replaced my chain (first time I've ever done that - the proof of whether I've done it right will be tomorrow morning on the way to work!). I'm right in thinking that new chains are fine with the lubrication they come with for the first few rides..?

A shiny bike is a pleasure to look at :smile:
 

gavroche

Getting old but not past it
Location
North Wales
Put a new tyre on back wheel, cleaned cassette, chain and lubricated. Also cleaned bike and put some pictures up.
 

RhysB

Veteran
Trued rear wheel

Tweaked rear/front derailleur

Think new chain is a link short, just stops. So that's tomorrow's job. May bodge it by putting another powerlink on it so there's two hmm
 

Lanzecki

Über Member
I cleaned 1/2 of my Garage. 25*35 Feet of it. All the broken toys and dross. Found 2 kids bikes. Found many tools. And found my bike and mechanicing mad daughter's less interested in helping clean.

On the plus side I get see the floor. A bigger plus is I can lower my bikes from the roof to the floor, instead of a pile of old bits and pieces. Ohh, and I've found my workbench is wood :smile:

Perhaps now I can do things to bikes without having to rearrange everything.
 

MOI

Regular
I removed my back wheel from SS to fix a puncture, fitted new tube and new tyre ( a nice black & white rubino) blew tyre up and psssssssssssstttt :eek:, removed new (now old) inner tube and tyre and decided to get some new rim tape (now the wheel is only 140 miles old :excl: ), so went thru stages 1 & 2 again with the added fitment of new rim tape, anyway shes a goodun now :bicycle:
 

Christopher

Über Member
laced up a pair of 32 wheels. About half of the componetry are out the spares box, bought the rest. Only problem is the rear hub is silver and the front black. They are for my bother who might well say thanks... but the hubs are different. Anyway time for the real work: truing the things...
 

MichaelO

Guru
and replaced my chain (first time I've ever done that - the proof of whether I've done it right will be tomorrow morning on the way to work!). I

And another evening trying to work out what the heck I've done to my gears while changing the chain - must have knocked them or something - some weird noises going on... :dry:
 

BSRU

A Human Being
Location
Swindon
After a screeching rear wheel caused me to abort a ride, today I replaced the pawls and springs in the freehub, more importantly changed the sealed bearings, the non freehub side was lacking it's seal and looked very dry.
Hopefully I will whizz along now:tongue:
 

Cubist

Still wavin'
Location
Ovver 'thill
Great few hours in the garage. Cubester pinchflatted his rear (tubeless) a week or two ago. Much spinning and cursing got the hole near the centre tread to seal with latex. We were just going to ride the trails at Penmachno when he noticed it had gone flat again, and sure enough it was the same hole. I tried to fix it using worms, but they weren't having it. I ended up booting the split (about 8mm) with a piece of gaffer tape from the inside and fitted our only tube for the ride. He did very well, considering he ain't subtle in his line choice, and only suffered a blowout 200 yards from the finish line. He siad it went with a bit of a pop, so imagine my surprise when we took the tube out:
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SO, today I patched the three holes I could find in his tyre with vulcanised rubber squares, revalved it and pumped it back up with fresh sealant. So far it's holding OK.

My hardtail needed a new chain so that was fitted, and I treated the susser to a secondhand Hope stainless BB... I got it for a song but it needed outer seals. They came yesterday so I flushed and regreased the bearings and fitted it today. I tested it out this afternoon for a couple of hours, s all's good.
 

JoeyB

Go on, tilt your head!
Today I swapped the wife's MTB knobbly tyres for some Schwalbe City Jet slicks. Hopefully this will make a massive difference for her! It did for me when I made the same switch on my MTB a few years ago.
 
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