What Have You Fettled Today?

[Gravity Aided]

I started work on building up an old Raleigh Grand Prix(1971) with some Viscount parts. Cotterless crank installed, now on to wheels and derailleur. A work in progress, mainly to be completed during winter blizzards.

 

[slowmotion]

I waited for the Thinline Jagwire barrel adjusters to arrive by post, posted on 4th December, First Class. It wasn't all bad. The thumb twiddling excersises will stand me in good stead with my Campagnolo Veloce shifters.

 

[arch684]

Cold set an old steel frame to take a 7 sp cassette from a 5 sp freewheel. fitted new triple chainset new bb and chain.fitted another set of wheels.still to fit shifters and cables

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Finally given in and put a rack on my commuter MTB and fixed the sticky rear brake cable.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Bought a little moto tool at my local box store, for a little finer work than my beefier metal working tools are capable of. I also got a big chuck key for the drills. This key has 4 sides, too big to lose, and covers all the sizes. And new drill bits. Purchasing that leads to further fettling on a grander scale.

 

[gavroche]

Put together my new office chair my wife bought me for Christmas.

 

[Dirk]

Changed the cassette on my Focus Cayo from an 11- 28 to an 11- 32. Got some big hills around here! Running 52/36 chain wheel which was just a step too far for my old legs!
Also tinselled up both the hybrids ready for the Bike Shed 'Santa Spin' tomorrow. Did a pair of Xmas themed helmets as well.

 

[Gravity Aided]

When I tried to raise the garage door this morning, the screws snapped out of the plate attaching the motor arm to the door itself, and the door fell to the ground. My older dog shook his head, sighed, and turned to go back in the house. Spent most of my time before work fitting door attachment plate to a new site I made on the door. Got done directly before I had to leave for work, and finished torque down when I got home from work.

 

[Arjimlad]

Got up in a bad mood - but cleaning my bike put me in a good mood !

It had got really dirty. I had kept the chain clean and the rims/brakes but the rest of it was shamefully mucky.

A lot of rust coloured gunk came out of the bottom headset ball race thingy so I also took the forks off, removed the sealed bearing and took it to bits, cleaned the rust off, took the balls out, cleaned & regreased the thing before putting it all back together.

A new set of headset bearings will be sourced when winter salty roads have passed. The clean & regrease made the steering loads better.

 

[gavgav]

My bike had had its Christmas present, a good wash (filthy from recent rides) chain cleaned and oiled, gears adjusted slightly (been jumping from 7th to 9th) and filed off a couple of sharp plastic edges from recent light fittings.

 

[flyingfish]

Ditched the pathetic Tektro rear brake from the Voodoo & fitted a Shimano . Problems solved!
Pete

 

[Robeh]

Garmin Premium Heart Rate Monitor Strap..
dhb Vaeon Roubaix Pro Padded Bib Tight..
High5 EnergySource 2.2kg
xmas present to myself..

 

[Gravity Aided]

Removing BB from Fuji Touring Series IV prefatory to measuring spindle and BB shell for sealed bearing unit. Replacing chain as it is, according to new chain checker, 90% worn. Components are showing some age, but not the frame. I think with a few renovations, this bicycle could easily run another 30 years.

 

[flyingfish]

Dismantled a Xmas dinner, going to regret it on Saturday

 

[bpsmith]

Set up the rear mech on my Winter bike from scratch again, as had a noisy 11T...and wanted to try out my new Park 4th hand tool.

Turned out to be the High screw was slightly out and the chain was rubbing on the 12T next to it. Indexing is meaningless if this is wrong to start with. Not surprised though, as was set up when my Zonda's were on there and hadn't been used since n+1 arrived and wheels were swapped. Sounds perfect now.

Then lubed the chain after cleaning it a week or so back and it being sat in the garage awaiting some new Ceramic Lube. Ready for a Boxing Day ride...