What Have You Fettled Today?

[Arjimlad]

And gave the bike a good clean & wash as well. Lovely ride in to work today !

 

[PeteXXX]

Knog lights fitted to Road bike.
Checked chain on Town & Tesco bike and decided that at about 20 years old, it's still got a few thousand miles left on it.
Cleats fitted to new Shimano shoes. No time to road test today as work beckons.

 

[KneesUp]

I have in my pocket 4 little bolts, four little nuts (stop laughing) and 8 washers, all for the princely sum of £1.20. Tonight I shall have toe-clips attached to the pedals rather than in a box under the kitchen sink, saving me from the ignominity of wet soles/bumpy road/looking like an idiot with feet all over the place accidents.

 

[mrbikerboy73]

Cleaned the Defy and my SPD SL shoes.

 

[arranandy]

Yesterday afternoon 3 bikes cleaned and lubed. Winter bike stripped down to the bare frame in preparation for a full rebuild over the next couple of months

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 3077442, member: 259"]Took the Nokkian ice spikers off the old MTB and stuck the semislicks back on, as the chances of snow at this time of year are vanishingly small. [/QUOTE]
T ain't June yet fella

 

[cosmicbike]

Removed and repackaged the bearings on my SPD pedals, got a nice 53t oil print on my jeans for my troubles

 

[I like Skol]

Preparing the fast bike for tomorrow to make sure it is running silky smooth so I can beat @potsy on the training ride. Something that has been bugging me almost since I got this bike around 3 years ago is that the gear change down onto the small 11T sprocket has never been brilliant and has been the reason for a lot of fettling and tweaking of cables, hanger alignment, stop screws and indexing in the mean time.

Tonight I took things apart (again) and decided that the rear derailleur spring looked a bit gunky and possibly this was binding when it was almost fully closed and was stopping the mech action. It was while cleaning this spring that I noticed the parallelogram rear plate was slightly bent at one of the pivot points. I did drop the bike on it's first outing when new as I hit a patch of slightly damp mossy road at slow speed and fell over sidewards, banging the mech and it seems this is why I have always been troubled with the gear problem. Knocked things back into shape and now the gearshift is as sweet as a nut, RESULT

 

[potsy]

Preparing the fast bike for tomorrow to make sure it is running silky smooth so I can beat @potsy on the training ride. Something that has been bugging me almost since I got this bike around 3 years ago is that the gear change down onto the small 11T sprocket has never been brilliant and has been the reason for a lot of fettling and tweaking of cables, hanger alignment, stop screws and indexing in the mean time.

Tonight I took things apart (again) and decided that the rear derailleur spring looked a bit gunky and possibly this was binding when it was almost fully closed and was stopping the mech action. It was while cleaning this spring that I noticed the parallelogram rear plate was slightly bent at one of the pivot points. I did drop the bike on it's first outing when new as I hit a patch of slightly damp mossy road at slow speed and fell over sidewards, banging the mech and it seems this is why I have always been troubled with the gear problem. Knocked things back into shape and now the gearshift is as sweet as a nut, RESULT

I've been busy fettling my summer bike too, shortened the chain by 2 links for weight saving (and because some numpty left it a bit too long when I they fitted it the other week)

 

[fossyant]

Fettled no bike stuff, but tomorrow is remove bathroom tiles, switch bath round, new taps, re-plumb, remove electric shower, tile, then fit new shower. Lots to do.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

yesterday - not bike stuff... ride on lawnmower.. my step-father hit the concrete edging to the border of his garden, and after the lumps of concrete had stopped flying around, I had to take the blade off it for him (he had a hip replacement recently that was not very successful...) so that the blade could have the chunks removed from it, ground down and re-sharpened. Then we took the sander to post for the parasol which stands in a metal thingy which fills with water, the wood absorbs the water and won't come out... it spilt last autumn so was left (after a considerable fight extracting it) to dry out in the garage over winter... after sanding it down, it now slots in nicely through the top of the table and into the thingy... I left him to oil it down to reseal it!

 

[biggs682]

well today i have started work on a 90's Giant Peleton i picked up a few weeks ago , wheels have been in for a regrease and true up down at lbs ,

rear wheel was too flat spotted to do much with so out came 1 of my spares so swapped tyre over rim to rim , and then replaced brake cables fr & rr along with un raveling 3 layers of bar tape right down to original white Giant tape .

starting to get there

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I FINALLY started building my new bike, by which I mean transferring everything off my old bike to put onto my new bike. My old frame was a Ribble Audax (I think) that was too big for me, now I have a Bianchi, er, something or other that's the right size. Here's how far I got today:

Apart from the seat tube being too big for my current seatpost, the cables from my old bike all being the wrong lengths, finding a random flat tyre on the rear of my 'donor' bike, my daughter getting covered in grease, the steerer on the forms appearing to be woefully short, finding a lump worn out of said steerer where it 'goes carbon', forgetting entirely to buy a braze-on adapter and the BB apparently being too wide for the hole it went pretty well!

 

[TeeQue]

Been fettling the Ribble ready for my first ever triathlon tomorrow. Fitted a second bottle cage, pumped up the tyres with my new track pump and attempted to make it look slightly more appropriate for a competitive cycling event by removing the mud guards which in turn required the brakes to be adjusted.

All set now though just not sure if I am!

 

[cyberknight]

Took the virtuoso to the LBS to sort out shifting issues and installed a shorter stem on the project bike
After much deliberation i worked out with the bits i have in stock i can get in on the road for £36 with bits from wiggle so looks like it will be N+1