What Have You Fettled Today?

[fossyant]

Raceblade longs shoe horned onto my Ribble 653. Fronts took a bit of work but they are on and look smart (as far as guards go). That's currently 3 of my 4 bikes with guards at the moment.

Also replaced the crank magnet for the Garmin with a rare earth one (I've already done this to my Herety) - simple job of just popping the magnet on the end of the pedal spindle - as the spindle is recessed slightly, there is no chance of it falling off.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

fitted my birthday present (cadence sensor and new garmin edge 500) to my road bike. now just need to fathom out how to use the 500... lots more info than the 200 I previously had (now with my OH)...

 

[Cyclopathic]

Mended a puncture today but put the patch on backwards. It didn't work. I felt stupid. Luckily I checked it before re-fitting so felt a little less stupid than if I'd put it all back together only to have to take it apart again. The japes never stop around here I tell you.

 

[ianrauk]

Full strip down of the Kona Honky Inc commuter after Thursdays very wet century ride.
All now nice and sparkly clean ready for Monday's (what's looking like) very wet commute.

Also replaced the disc pads front and rear and a new pair of Spesh Armadillo boot's for the bike.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Sram out front mount fitted to Rihanna. Simple, cheap and does the job

 

[Salad Dodger]

The bike rack was nearly falling off the garage wall, so 4 new rawlbolts fixed into the wall today have hopefully done the trick. (Awaits crashing sound from the garage as 2 mountain bikes and their rack fall off the wall, damaging the 2 e-bikes parked below).....

And Mrs Salad discovered damp on the inside of our bedroom window cill today. Seems that the sealant on the outside of the windows has failed, so I have smarmed plenty more sealant on it today, before the next deluge arrives overnight. Hopefully it will do the trick, but I anticipate that it wont be aesthetically satisfactory to Mrs Salad, and will have to be done again. On the other hand, the windows are basically knackered, and will have to be replaced in the Spring.

 

[rbreid]

A cautionary tale....... Don't encourage your children to cycle....There are consequences Or if you do then fit a padlock to your toolchest
Went to get my headcup removal tool to finnish stripping a frame down....no tool!!!!!! Text to No1 son...he has it. Won't be free to drop it back for a couple of weeks
Solution...make one....simples. A rake through the parts bin, old steel seat post 10 mins with hacksaw and file

Job done

 

[biggs682]

an hr today was spent cleaning the chain and associated parts on daily commuter , cant complain as first time done for a while

 

[wilko]

Fitted a new inner tube and adjusted the brake blocks so they don't rub when on the move.

 

[alans]

Fitted new brake blocks,front & rear,to the Longstaff.
The bike now stops on a tanner using the front brake but the rear brake is less effective.Perhaps a new cable will improve the performance of the rear brake.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Stood and watched my OH repair his 8th puncture from our New Year's Eve ride.... attention to detail is not a strength of his
2nd hawthorn finally found sticking all the way through the thickest part of the tread... (now all I need to do is buy more inner tubes (none left without patches) and more patches...)

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

today was a clean the bike and get the toaster fixed day... bike cleaning took a while, it was filthy and the chain, chainset & cassette have been found to be silver again... I also found a red & black bike underneath the brown & black covering... tis a shame it went dark on me whilst I was cleaning it otherwise I would have proof - but my OH is home tonight, so she has had to go to be outside rather than having the sitting room to herself.

Then it was launch an attack on the toaster - my OH (at the weekend) had failed to notice that a small bottle of bike oil had found its way off the shelf above the toaster (the bike shelf) and fallen into the toaster. He still failed to notice that the bread did not sit into the toaster properly and turned said toaster on... or at least tried to... bike oil has now been extracted from toaster, and whilst the bike oil is no longer usable, the toaster has been reassembled and amazingly works! Happy days.

 

[fossyant]

New pads on the commuter. The old ones have vanished rapidly this last week !

 

[potsy]

New pads on the commuter. The old ones have vanished rapidly this last week !

Just had to do that too, saw they were getting quite low last week but the 'metal on metal' noise on the way home last night convinced me it was time to put some new ones on

 

[fossyant]

Wasn't quite that close - only 2 or 3 mm's. This damp, dirty and gritty weather eats them. Get less wear when it's hissing down.