What Have You Fettled Today?

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

My OH took the sprocket off for me last night (the usual issues for me preventing me from being able to) and I was able to look at his Rohloff hub and see what the problem was today. It didn't take long to spot the cause.

Filthy inside as well as outside.

Yuck

Some female TLC needed....

Ahh much better...

the wear mark tells me which way around the sprocket had been on so I will take the opportunity to put it on the other way around - it is a reversible one after all.

After lithium grease has been generously been applied, I reassembled it...

Now to look at the gear changer. Whenever it is taken off, we take the opportunity to clean it and apply fresh lithium grease...

One half - btw for those that do not know, if you ever come across someone with a gear change issue on the Rohloff hub and they are 'stuck' in a wrong gear (or missing some of their gears) an 8mm spanner will manually change the gears. (Note that the gear changer should read 14 (for a 14 speed hub) otherwise getting into the black box is much more difficult than it needs to be!) and if they are missing some gears the probability is that the gear changer on the bars and the hub were not in the same gear when it was reassembled... I know this because... there is a reason I started doing my own maintenance you know

And now nicely clean. I filled this with lithium grease - good dollop and reassembled and hopefully that is the last of the oil leak. It's nothing major, just a pain because it wears parts out faster than it needs to, and if this fails which I will know by the end of day 1 on the tour, the hub will go back to Rohloff for them to deal with under warranty...

Next task will be to change the 40T chainring to a 38T chainring to give one lower gear for cycling both the Wrynose and Hardknott passes in the Lakes in a couple of weeks time!

 

[I like Skol]

Almost forgot, I swapped the crappy, loose, creaky combination M424 SPD pedals that I have never liked for some smart new XT M780s earlier in the week.

I never ride in 'normal' shoes and didn't like the lumpy feel from these pedals even when I did and they had developed a terrible creak from the cleat interface that I couldn't cure no matter what I did, including new cleats (but turning up the ipod a bit more worked quite well!).

XT pedals for the commuter **Bling!**

 

[potsy]

Almost forgot, I swapped the crappy, loose, creaky combination M424 SPD pedals that I have never liked for some smart new XT M780s earlier in the week.

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I never ride in 'normal' shoes and didn't like the lumpy feel from these pedals even when I did and they had developed a terrible creak from the cleat interface that I couldn't cure no matter what I did, including new cleats (but turning up the ipod a bit more worked quite well!).

XT pedals for the commuter **Bling!**

I have those same XT pedals on my Caad, very nice

 

[djb1971]

Just converted a 3x10 to a 1x10

Zee FR shadow plus rear mech, hope narrow/wide retainer ring and a new zee shifter.

The ring is 30t, should give me 23" for climbing on a 29er. I just hope its easy enough for all day in the mountains, carrying my junk. I've not bothered with a chain guide, hoping the ring and mech work okay without. I'm just going to test it tonight before the big bank holiday bivvy.

 

[Spoked Wheels]

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Is that the wheel I rebuilt for you? I hope it still going strong

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Is that the wheel I rebuilt for you? I hope it still going strong

it is and it has survived my OH very well! So far no issues with it and still perfectly true - mind you it has not seen much use since last Septmeber other than this weekend just one...
Off on a 2 week tour in 10 days time with some bigger climbs and no doubt he will want to go off sprinting up them there hills... (Wrynose and Hardknott passes in the Lakes but some thing over Yorkshire way as well... ) that should test things out especially if he spots someone else on a bike and if they are a roadie... ...

 

[smokeysmoo]

Cold set the rear triangle on my Raleigh ready for it's new wheels when they arrive

 

[PeteXXX]

Headset bearings removed, cleaned and re-greased on the Marin. No gritty sounds when the bars are turned now..

 

[Spoked Wheels]

it is and it has survived my OH very well! So far no issues with it and still perfectly true - mind you it has not seen much use since last Septmeber other than this weekend just one...
Off on a 2 week tour in 10 days time with some bigger climbs and no doubt he will want to go off sprinting up them there hills... (Wrynose and Hardknott passes in the Lakes but some thing over Yorkshire way as well... ) that should test things out especially if he spots someone else on a bike and if they are a roadie... ...

I know

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I know

don't worry. I have him down to 2 panniers and a rackpack... from 4 and a rackpack.. he can even lift the bike up! dropping down to the 38T front as well (Rohloff now permit the 38/17 combination inside warranty).... that should slow him down a touch and prevent him from putting too much strain on life!

 

[biggs682]

well today i have fettled 3 hire bikes that were hired out at a local "park" , not one of the 10+ bikes hired out were adjusted to fit the hirer so muggins here road along putting saddles up and down to make the kids more comfy .

apart from that a great 1.5 hrs worth of charity riding thanks kids

 

[the_mikey]

New jockey wheels in my old 9 speed tiagra derailleur.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

treated my touring bike to only its 2nd set of brake pads, but don't worry, it only got front pads. There was probably a couple of thousand miles left in the front pads, there is certainly plenty of life left in the rears... they have only done 10,500 miles most of that at 'world' laden touring weight.

old verses new... still some life in them, but time to treat the bike to new... and remember that I don't need to worry about 'running' out and eeking the absolute max out of everything anymore... and I am off on a 2 week tour soon...

Also on the list of repairs today is my sleeping bag... It has a hole and that means the down can escape...



So time for an inner tube patch as a repair! OK - I know what you are thinking, she has finally lost the plot! send in the white coats, but I kid not. I have found they stick really well to all sorts of things including the tent groundsheet & footprint and are still going strong after many years of use and both were in very frequent/daily use for nearly a year! So lets see how well they work on the sleeping bag.


It passed the sticky test immediately... and it has passed the stretch test... looking good so far. Will test the compression sack test over the next couple of nights, but looks to be a neater job than my last repair on this bag which encountered an interesting issue of each and every stitch pulling down out of the bag with the cotton thread. I ended up gluing and stitching that repair on!


PS - self adhesive inner tube patches also work really well on waterproofs when you have had a disagreement with barbed wire!

 

[youngoldbloke]

New bearings in the rear R501 wheel. Took off the freehub and cleaned it out as well as I could without dissembling it (oil seal at back removed and rinsed out with lighter fuel). After drying, copious amounts of grease sprayed in. Freehub sounds better, but still rough. Probably new bearings needed in the freehub itself. All back together and ready for a test ride after lunch.

 

[youngoldbloke]

PS - self adhesive inner tube patches also work really well on waterproofs when you have had a disagreement with barbed wire!

or brambles. Good tip!