What Have You Fettled Today?

[Wolf616]

My gears weren't changing very well and the front derailleur was rubbing so I started pissing around with the limit screws for some unknown reason. After about 15 minutes of cursing and the occasional twist of the barrel adjuster I realised I'd farked it up more than it was at the beginning and so spent the next 15 carefully re-adjusting everything back to how it was.

I'm a top mechanic - willing to offer a discount to all users of CycleChat for my services

 

[Gravity Aided]

Test rode the Marlin, with different chainring,and all worked quite well. 1.5 miles per hour hour faster over the same course. Oh, and I fixed an MP3 player I got in a garage sale and figured out how to upload music.

 

[Spoked Wheels]

Swapped a 52T chainring for a 50T on my winter bike..... lovely!!!! I did a 40+ miles yesterday and I felt the difference.

Swapping the chainring took 5 minutes top. Readjusting the front derailleur took twice as long. (Shimergo Triple)

 

[bpsmith]

Stripped the rear dérailleur on my Bianchi as clicking again. Realised that cage was bent, so duly straightened. Also increased the Tension while cage was off. I now have a B tension screw that actually does something.

60 mile test ride yesterday and it was bliss!

 

[Trembler49]

Cleaned the rear cassette and derailleur and now realised I need a new cassette, and probably chain.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Nothing.

 

[HLaB]

Lol, I've not got round to it either. About 60miles into a 106 miles ride yesterday, I snapped a gear cable, didn't help I was in the middle of the relative hilly Rutland. Tightened my limit screw so I had a slightly easier 34x13 or 50x13. Got back about 4.30pm but didn't bother fixing it until around 7pm, 'got plenty of cables'. Lol, I did but they were all brake cables (both campag and shimano. So I cleaned up and reindexed the commuter and used it for today's ride. On the way back I remembered that a new lbs had opened just two miles from my door and as they have a few shops they might be open on Sundays. They were so I popped in for a few. Seven hours later, they are still sitting on the table

 

[Gravity Aided]

Partially respoking a 700c wheel, and harvesting a hub from another, if I ever get out of this laundromat.

 

[Pumpkin the robot]

Swapped wheels over, fitted new tyres, chain and chain set. I also cleaned the shoot pit of a garage out it is now just a poo pit, but I can work in there!

 

[Gravity Aided]

Swapped wheels over, fitted new tyres, chain and chain set. I also cleaned the shoot pit of a garage out it is now just a poo pit, but I can work in there!

On my list for Wednesday, I'll reclaim the garage so I can make a workshop and little studio space so I can take better pictures of stuff that breaks or falls apart. Or that I make.

 

[HLaB]

Lol, I've not got round to it either. About 60miles into a 106 miles ride yesterday, I snapped a gear cable, didn't help I was in the middle of the relative hilly Rutland. Tightened my limit screw so I had a slightly easier 34x13 or 50x13. Got back about 4.30pm but didn't bother fixing it until around 7pm, 'got plenty of cables'. Lol, I did but they were all brake cables (both campag and shimano. So I cleaned up and reindexed the commuter and used it for today's ride. On the way back I remembered that a new lbs had opened just two miles from my door and as they have a few shops they might be open on Sundays. They were so I popped in for a few. Seven hours later, they are still sitting on the table

Finally got round to fixing it last night, thought my shifter was Fuchiama at first but I unscrewed the side plate to find the cable had snapped 1cm back from the cap and that was jamming the mech.
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[Elybazza61]

Over the week-end fitted Axiom 'guards to the Planet X which went on without too much hassle;only downside is wheel removal will be more hasssle as the guards fit on the axles with adaptors,good for bikes with no guard mounts though and they even fit around the calipers fine.

Also started the 1x10 conversion so fitted the XT mech,Stronglight 48t chainring and new chain;works ok-ish but need a new cable and probably an in-line adjuster to get it set-up properly.Rode it this morning and the mech changes ok,just the extreme ends of the cassette are a bit flaky;lovely and smooth though so I'll perevere with it.

 

[Illaveago]

I raised the handlebar stem on my Carlton today and gave it a test ride to see how it felt. The test ride was also used to try to find a chrome plated cap which fits in the crank of a TA Stronglight, so the route was going to be what I had ridden a few days ago. I wasn't going to set any PB times as I was trying to spot an object the size of a bottle top, I covered 4 miles in 50 minutes. It is amazing how many how many bottle top sized objects you can find when you are looking for one, sadly they were all bottle tops.
The work I had done had improved the ride although I freewheeled most of the way. I am beginning to like the way the bike feels.

 

[mustang1]

New koolstop yellow v-brake pads.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I cut a piece of an old inner tube out and made a chain slap guard for my old Scott bike. Then i fitted some new Clarks brake pads on the front.