What Have You Fettled Today?

[Psycolist]

I found that 1/2 hour today and was unable to find any reason why the seat post is creaking. Perfectly fine until I loobed the moving parts, ever since it has creaked. It was getting on my wick so much, I swapped over the post with my spare. Further investigations can wait for a rainy day. Otherwise a general check over of both steeds, checking brake wear, tyre pressures, mickled the chains, cleaned some gunk off the jockies. Then the wife found me and that was that for the rest of the daylight hours.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Adjustment of rear wheel, and a 15 mile test ride on the Fuji Touring Series IV, all well, no flats, beautiful day.

 

[BigAl68]

I fitted a new big ring, cassette and chain on the planet x and balanced the brakes on the ken bird over the weekend.

 

[I like Skol]

I seem to have spent the last week or two trying to play catch-up with the Puncture Fairy . Only one puncture on my bike but the kids have been picking them up for fun. I have had to purchase some new tubes, a couple of repair kits and I also fitted some Velox rim tape to a wheel on my hybrid after it's puncture highlighted a potential problem. The rubber/plastic rim tape had deformed massively and was sagging right down into the spoke holes, so much so that the tube had pimples showing where it had stretched into the holes that were still there even when the tube was deflated. I don't know how I have managed to end up with the cheapy rim tape as the other wheel has been fitted with Velox tape and I built these wheel myself, must have been on an economy drive at the time?
Anyway, 4 wheels stripped and re-inflated in a quick session this morning. Talc flying everywhere and now all bikes in the fleet ready to roll again

 

[Racing roadkill]

Brake blocks on the Btwin hybrid.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

What started as a simple replacement of the jockey wheels turned into slightly more. The crusty paint and rust had been bugging me on and off since I got this frame. I had even gone as far as getting the exact shade matched and a rattle tin mixed.
Off with old paint then. I think my paint stripper has gone off as it didn't even start to do what it said on the tin! So, I used a softish wire brush attachment on an angle grinder. I was wearing eye protection which explains why four strands of supersonic wire came of the thing and hit me in the face. Not one hit the safety glasses! Instead they buried themselves in various parts of my face.

A couple only slowed down when they reached bone. I would be lying if I said it didn't hurt. It didn't hurt as much as it did pulling them out again however!

I got the rest of the paint off wearing a welding mask with the dark glass taken out! You see it here after the primer and first coat of topcoat has gone on. I'll put the rest on and the lacquer later.

I still haven't changed the sodding jockey wheels.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Seeing as my MTB is running a 1x10 drive train, I've re-purposed the LHS shifter to become a remote trigger for a dropper seat post. As such it uses the same cable run under the cross bar but instead of going down to the rear mech it turns upwards to a KS LEV post.

It took a fair bit of fiddling with to disconnect the ratchet mechanism inside the shifter - in fact I had to learn how to assemble one when it fell apart in my hands . But it was worth it and I think the finished article looks quite factory .

 

[anothersam]

Re-purposing a shifter to become a remote trigger for a dropper seatpost sets the bar kind of high for "fettling". Next project: wirelessly plugging it into your neural circuitry.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Nargh.... it's nothing more than opening up the shifter and removing an 'E' clip and a couple bits of metal. Not much harder than servicing shimano wheel hub bearings TBH

 

[raleighnut]

Do you ever forget and have an 'ooh yer ba5tsrd' moment when the seat suddenly vanishes.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Do you ever forget and have an 'ooh yer ba5tsrd' moment when the seat suddenly vanishes.

I'm sure there will be a learning curve, as I struggle to remember that it's not a gear shifter any more.

I think I'll refer to them as a 'seatless moments'

 

[raleighnut]

I'm sure there will be a learning curve, as I struggle to remember that it's not a gear shifter any more.

I think I'll refer to them as a 'seatless moments'

 

[HLaB]

Swapped the shimano freehub body on my fulcrum quattros for a campy one so I could resurect the bianchi as a TT bike. Put a new tyre on that wheel and a disc cover on too. It'll need a new headset and probably a new bb but thats a job for another day, ;-)

 

[Racing roadkill]

Fitted the new bargain Selle Royal saddle, to the roady. It's a bit good .

 

[I like Skol]

Talc flying everywhere and now all bikes in the fleet ready to roll again

Maybe I spoke too soon
Even though I pulled 2 mahoosive thorns out of the rear tyre of oldest sons MTB (one had gone in for the puncture, other had gone though a nobble and came out of the sidewall without touching the tube) the tyre is now soggy again despite not moving since the previous repair. I checked the tyre carefully for foreign objects but will have to revisit the job to try again