bozmandb9
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- Location
- South Oxfordshire
OCD time today. Cleaned bike with babywipes, including cassette, oiled chain. Wished I wasn't so knackered from athletics, still will be able to go out tomorrow to test my new tubs.
What Have You Fettled Today?
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- Location
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Cleaned and relubricated the bearings on three sets of pedals. I should have done it earlier in the year really and two of the sets were quite mucky inside.
The one pair needs new ball bearings but I haven't got any in. Will have to redo those when I can get some.
The one pair needs new ball bearings but I haven't got any in. Will have to redo those when I can get some.
HarryTheDog
Guru
- Location
- Basildon Essex
According to the weather forecast its supposed to rain everyday next week, also its starting to get darker so I decided it was time to turn my cross bike back into its foul/wet weather commuting guise. On went nearly 2kg of rubber in the form of 35c marathan plus tyres,proper full size mudguards and light mount for my exposure strada death ray light. Bet it wont rain now.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Fettled a new crown onto my seatpost, as the other was some cheap thing that had been cobbled on to an otherwise nice seatpost, and didn't hold the saddle securely. This one is solid as a rock, after some during-the-ride-fettling.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Another seized handlebar stem. Appearances can be deceptive, no sign of corrosion but it just wouldn't budge. I tried the grip the front wheel between
my feet and twist on a pair of straight bars but no movement .
Today I used a more drastic method, grip the front forks between two large blocks of wood firmly in the vice, spray loads of WD40 ,place a pair of straight bars
through the stem and twist. You should have seen those forks twist. A loud crack! Uh! Try the other direction another crack, followed by more as it slowly
started to move. More Wd followed by more twisting,full rotation and it still wouldn't come out. It is no wonder it was in a skip, labour costs would have written the bike off. Now for another block of wood and a large hammer to Tap underneath the handlebars. Sometime later it came out.
There is one drawback with caged bearings in that you need to take things apart in order to fit them.
my feet and twist on a pair of straight bars but no movement .
Today I used a more drastic method, grip the front forks between two large blocks of wood firmly in the vice, spray loads of WD40 ,place a pair of straight bars
through the stem and twist. You should have seen those forks twist. A loud crack! Uh! Try the other direction another crack, followed by more as it slowly
started to move. More Wd followed by more twisting,full rotation and it still wouldn't come out. It is no wonder it was in a skip, labour costs would have written the bike off. Now for another block of wood and a large hammer to Tap underneath the handlebars. Sometime later it came out.
There is one drawback with caged bearings in that you need to take things apart in order to fit them.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
I have been given a bike by the neighbours for mini ck that will be the right size next year and i have sorted out the ripped seat and snapped brake lever from spares, when it arrives i will replace the twist shifter with a thumb shifter as it is stiff and he cant get on with it and there is no play to adjust the rear mech .
Frame is good and it had new wheels before i was given it and TBH the way he treats possesions in general a new bike would be destroyed so for the sake of £10 worth of parts + bits out of my spares ............
He can ride it but cant touch the floor properly to stop yet .
Frame is good and it had new wheels before i was given it and TBH the way he treats possesions in general a new bike would be destroyed so for the sake of £10 worth of parts + bits out of my spares ............
He can ride it but cant touch the floor properly to stop yet .
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Tin Pot
Guru
Indexing.
I wish I'd videod it so you could watch and compare with the YouTube instructionals.
At one point I wondered if I'd have to carry it to a bike shop.
All seems well, but I missed the dry spell to go and test if it's still slipping under load.
Otherwise it's into the LBS tomorrow afternoon.
I wish I'd videod it so you could watch and compare with the YouTube instructionals.
At one point I wondered if I'd have to carry it to a bike shop.
All seems well, but I missed the dry spell to go and test if it's still slipping under load.
Otherwise it's into the LBS tomorrow afternoon.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
The commuter has been making a right racket this week, it was so bad on Thursday that I went to work on the road bike on Friday, Anyway get up nice and early this morning and give the commuter a good clean and set off for the bike shop for them to sort it as my maintenance skills are crap to say the least. Well bugger me, the bloody thing was silent, took it for a 5 mile ride and not a squeak so never bothered with the bike shop.
So this morning I fettled something but I have no idea what.
So this morning I fettled something but I have no idea what.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Mrs. GA off with her school chums, so I had an XL fettling session after a flat on my ride with the Trek 7200. I replaced some broken spokes after removing cassettes from 2 wheels with broken spokes on the drive side, as I had the breaker bar and cassette remover out anyway. I replaced the broke spokes on the 7200 rear wheel, cleaned and regreased, while it was cassetteless. I trued the wheel very closely, as I ride with a narrow brake gap. I also put a new tire on, as when I bought the 7200, it had a very thin tire on rear, almost new on front. I had this occur with another bike previously, and it was the same tire as this tire was, by my good fortune, so I added that one to the rear wheel I also fitted a new SRAM shifter and a bottom bracket to my Trek/Gary Fisher Marlin, as well as cranks. New tires (Hutchinson Pythons) and the other shifter may go on today.
HarryTheDog
Guru
- Location
- Basildon Essex
Today I replaced my ancient 9 year old Ultegra shifters with some nice new ones. They still worked perfectly but the shadow of the clothes lines was really annoying me when I had my lights on. Rather chuffed that after guesstimating the tension on the gear wires, when I came to index the gears the rear just needed 2 quater turns of adjustment and the front was spot on.
old shifters below
old shifters below
velovoice
Veteran
- Location
- Between the City and the Sea
Straightened the backward-sloping rack on my Cross Check. It was on rock-solid so don't know how it happened:
(Yesterday, I greased the Speedplay pedals and swapped the stem out. Total 'cockpit' now measures the same as my custom bike.
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(Yesterday, I greased the Speedplay pedals and swapped the stem out. Total 'cockpit' now measures the same as my custom bike.
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Removed the touring pedals, put some Shimano M530 SPD pedals on as the old MKS ones were proper slippery when wet. Also got some SKS raceblade XLs and put them on. Finally replaced the FD with a newer shimano 105 jobby, as the old sachs huret one was starting to get a bit graunchy, and I figured £20 was better then stripping and regreasing it again. Unfortunately the previous owner wasn't too careful, and even after an hour with wire wool there were still rusty spots. Finally, replaced the old 8spd 11-25 cassette with a new Tiagra 12-30, which should be much better with the 52-42 at the front.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Been very lazy of late, done nothing to progress my Pace 650b SS build, so today I sat down and cleaned all the Hope finishing kit with a GT 85 soaked rag. Shiny like New.
