What Have You Fettled Today?

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Finally got around to switching my tyres back to my winter ones after I spotted a rather deep gash in the tread of my front tyre (road bike) and whilst I didn't have a flat, sadly the tyre is a write off. It goes all the way down to the lining cutting through the canvas and threads. Shame as the tyre had only done around 5,000 km and looked pretty good for double that again!

Then I had a look at my rear brake cross lever which wasn't returning all the way, regreasing the brake cables solved that one and finally whilst the wheel was off the bike, I had a look at my front wheel bearings to see why there was lateral movement in the wheel... One of the 17mm nuts was lose ish. A slight tighten and all fine again.

Then on to my mountain bike and switched the tyres back over to the mid tyres from the semi slicks they were in and tried using the brake disc cleaner to stop the squealing. Stopped the rear squealing but the fronts still squeal superbly despite cleaning the disks and pads. Oh well. That can be another day!

 

[Hacienda71]

Changed the frame bearings on my Stumpjumper FSR. G clamp and assorted sockets did the trick and the play seems to have gone. Also put some new M424 pedals on to make it a bit more practical for knocking around with the kids

 

[Elybazza61]

Not today but over the week-end I fitted Challenge Grifo pros to the Mavic/xt wheels plus new discs,cleaned the Ridley after the club ride and mostly stripped the old Trek hybrid down for it's (probably slow) conversion to a rigid forked drop bar commuter which I'm trying to do as cheaply as possible ;especially as I have been looking at Ridley Helium frames thanks to Bike etc and Cyclist magazines.

 

[gbb]

Two wheels but motorised, my sons scooter.....13 years old, and needs frequent minor fettling. If its not one thing, its another. Today, exhaust hanger bolt has snapped.
Oh fer chrissakes, could be a bogger, steel bolt in alloy engine but as the head of the bolt had sheared off, it left 8mm of the remaining bolt sticking proud...which just required a turn with pliers to unscrew.

 

[I like Skol]

When I got home from today's 12hr shift I HAD to put replacement pads in my XT disc brakes. They have been getting a bit noisy for a while so I guessed they were ready to be changed but they weren't high on the priorities list. The last couple of days has been accompanied by an intermittent scraping that was getting more and more persistent until today when it was constant and no matter how loud I turned up the volume on my ipod it could still be heard

Anyhow, these came out....

... and have been replaced with genuine Shimano metallic pads. Serenity returns

Next job on the horizon is a chain, cassette and middle chainring swap as the current ones are getting quite tired.

 

[derrick]

spray painted my Tandem frame today, all i have to do now is fit it all back together again.

 

[raleighnut]

When I got home from today's 12hr shift I HAD to put replacement pads in my XT disc brakes. They have been getting a bit noisy for a while so I guessed they were ready to be changed but they weren't high on the priorities list. The last couple of days has been accompanied by an intermittent scraping that was getting more and more persistent until today when it was constant and no matter how loud I turned up the volume on my ipod it could still be heard

Anyhow, these came out....
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... and have been replaced with genuine Shimano metallic pads. Serenity returns

Next job on the horizon is a chain, cassette and middle chainring swap as the current ones are getting quite tired.

I think you got the last possible mile out of them.

 

[gbb]

Shed in garden re roofed. I noticed a damp patch in the corner last time I got the bike out....the shed's about 15 years old so it's done ok. Old felt off......ooer. looking at the state of the roof panels, its a new roof next year...but this new felt will see it through the winter ok.....and keep the bikes n stuff dry.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

After falling off my tourer/commuter bike on October 2nd (or being pushed, rather ), I've had a few problems getting it back on the road again:

• On Sat Oct 4th, I took the badly-buckled front wheel to a bike shop to be trued by an expert (because I still haven't learned do do that useful task myself, but it's on my TODO list), and picked it up On Wed 8th.
• Unfortunately, it was still too buckled to be of much use, so I wasted a bit of money there .
• On Sat 11th I left new front wheel parts (I'd already ordered these online months ago: planning ahead ) with the bike shop.
• On Sat 18th I picked up the new front wheel, which is of course perfectly true, so I'm happy with that .
• Unfortunately, the back wheel had been going out of true for several months, and now also needed truing , so on Sat 25th I left the back wheel at the bike shop to be trued.
• I picked up the trued back wheel yesterday.
• Today, I did some fettling on my pride and joy (I've done massive kms on this bike, so I'm pretty attached to it).
• I put the back wheel on the bike.
• I then took the pedals off and thoroughly cleaned and re-greased them.
• I took both cranks off, and the bottom bracket, cleaned and re-greased them all, then reassembled. The bottom bracket definitely needed the clean, as it had months of Winter gunk accumulated on it.
• The left crank was missing the plastic insert that sits between the 2 bolts where it's attached to the axle, but I found a spare one in my cupboard of miscellaneous old bike parts.

Now the bike has super-smooth pedaling, 2 perfectly-true wheels, and should be ready again for commuting . I'm looking forward to riding it again.

 

[DCLane]

A couple of things;

The Secteur:

• was switched to it's 'winter' wheels and the 'summer' wheels got a set of new GP4000s tyres ready for 2015.
• New Shimano 5800 pedals fitted as the old Dura-ace 7800's were clicking, even with new plastic covers

The Ridgeback Platinum had:

• Bottom bracket re-threaded, bottom bracket and crankset re-fitted - my thanks to the LBS in Mirfield for this bit
• Replacement rear derailleur and new chain
• New rear gear cable inner and outer
• Rear wheel trued

 

[Cubist]

First bit of fettling for a while yesterday. I had trashed my rear derailleur on the Ibis, and had shortened the chain to singlespeed it back to the car park. After ordering and fitting the new chain and mech I found that the chain skipped badly on the cassette on the 28t cog, and closer examination showed that several of the teeth were bent just enough to stop the chain meshing properly. No amount of tweaking and twisting was going to work so I gave up and ordered a new cassette. It was interesting lifting the bike into the workstand after my recent gallbladder op, but it's now running sweet as a sweet thing with a new chain and cassette. May even be able to ride it in a day or two......

 

[Drago]

Trimmed my beard this morning. Was starting to look like Brian Blessed.

 

[Cubist]

Trimmed my beard this morning. Was starting to look like Brian Blessed.

Gone from full beard to Victorian handlebar and chops with a single stroke of the trimmer yesterday. My excuse was that it's Movember, but Mrs Cube is starting to cotton on to the fact it may be just to wind her up while I'm on CSL.

 

[Venod]

Made & calibrated a spoke tension gauge & built some wheels with Stans Crest rims & Shimano XT hubs.

 

[young Ed]

I just finished cleaning my road bike and touring/commuting bike. The latter now has a new front wheel, as the previous one was too buckled, thanks to the motorist who got out of a car and pushed me off my bike 2.5 weeks ago. Now it seems that the sideways wobble the tourer's rear wheel was developing over the last few months is too major to ignore. I'll have to get one of my local bike shops to true it for me. I would have a go at it myself, but I want to use this bike for a long ride in 2 weeks and don't want to risk my amateurish truing skills making the wheel worse.

My left hand still hurts from falling off the bike 2.5 weeks ago. I think I came close to breaking something, and now, although it is slowly getting better, I can still feel some pain and tightness in the tendons of the hand, although I do have full mobility and it doesn't affect my cycling. I wonder if the person who pushed me off the bike regrets doing this, or whether they just forgot about it days after the incident?

i realise this a while ago but i must have missed something, what happened? do you have a vid?
Cheers Ed