What Have You Fettled Today?

[Gravity Aided]

Eliminated squeak in the bracket of the recumbent trainer, so it's quiet now.

 

[howdenbiker]

An odd one, laid a new base for the shed that is going to hold my bikes :-) also got the commute bike on the stand and gave it a good wipe down and oiled the cogs and chain.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

After a couple of rides with the rear durrelier clanking against the spokes on the big cog at the back I thought I had better take a look. Needless to say after my slight adjustments my bike is now booked in with the Bike Doctor to be seen to by someone who knows what they're doing.

 

[Racing roadkill]

I put yesterday's bike up on the stand, checked the tyres for any pointy stuff, they were all clear, so I put a patch over the small hole in the rear tube (the position of which was marked for me by the slime meaning I didn't have to take the wheel off to do it).

 

[Robeh]

After a couple of rides with the rear durrelier clanking against the spokes on the big cog at the back I thought I had better take a look. Needless to say after my slight adjustments my bike is now booked in with the Bike Doctor to be seen to by someone who knows what they're doing.

sounds Like The Limit Screw Needs adjustment or the cage is bent?

 

[compo]

Peugeot Premier that I have been playing with, with the Dunwich Dynamo in mind. It had odd brakes front and rear. Today a matching pair of Weinmann 500's arrived and are now fitted, and certainly improve the look of the bike. Also I had a 5 speed freewheel on it temporarily, but also today a 6 speed arrived, so that is fitted. It would benefit from powder coating, but that takes a bit more money than I have to spare at present. I am also considering a pair of aero brake levers, but that is not a priority. I haven't kept a detailed list of prices I have spent so far but it's no more than £60 including the new back wheel at £30.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

sounds Like The Limit Screw Needs adjustment or the cage is bent?

Turns out the hanger is bent, I have zero idea who that happened.

 

[Robeh]

Turns out the hanger is bent, I have zero idea who that happened.

Yep thats another common reason is a bent hanger

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Yep thats another common reason is a bent hanger

I'm possibly being simplistic, but my first reaction was 'but I haven't fallen off this bike yet!'

 

[alecstilleyedye]

fitted a new inner tube at work (bike had been left there over the weekend), rode home and tightened the adjustable stem (it was lifting slightly)…

 

[DCLane]

Began work on the Raleigh:

Trued the front wheel and fitted a replacement Rubino pro slick tyre. Then cleaned the Thun gold crankset.

My attention then turned to the brakes; the Weinmann levers have seen better days so a replacement pair of aero levers on their way.

Removed the saddle and the seatpost is free but rusty internally. I'll spend some time on this later and a different saddle will be fitted; there's a spare Tioga on that matches. I may need to change the seatpost as well but hopefully not.

The big problem with it is the paintwork; it's scratched/chipped all over with red splodged on over what seems to be a late 80's respray and ideally needs a full repaint. I'm not doing that as a) I'm too short to ride it and b) it's over my (meagre) budget for the bike.

Photos shortly ...

 

[Elybazza61]

Fitted my free Lezyne light from Pro Cycling on the Planet X with an old holder from some e-ghey front lights as I don't want to use it as a helmet light.Will do until I get some proper Lezyne ones.
The light is pretty good though,especially for free and I think the subs offer is still on at the moment.

 

[Hyslop]

What have I fettled? 2 inner tubes thats what! How feckless can you be?The moral being,if you are bored,with weak,sore fingers,dont sit in front of the telly changing inners using levers.Youll only depress yourself and thats what telly is for.All this in aid of a spare wheel for the turbo!

 

[cashy293]

Gave both bikes a thorough clean today, in between hailstone showers. Then swapped the tyres around. Long story, but Defy now has the GP4000S in 25 flavour and the Sempre Pro has the Hutchinson Equinox fitted in 23.

The Conti's are the better tyres but the Defy is taking over Winter duties now. They were a tad wide on the Bianchi though mind you, so will give the Equinox a try and replace if poor.

That an excuse for your lack of doing any of the hard work last Sunday??

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Rear hanger has been fixed. Unfortunately when I picked up my geared bike from the bike doctor I had to drop off my Singlespeed as I just bust it while fitting a new chainring. Oops.