What Have You Fettled Today?

[Turdus philomelos]

In homage to oor Lizzie

 

[Karlt]

Limit screw and indexing on rear of commute bike. Looking at it I think that the 12-30 cassette really wants a medium cage derailleur, as I can either have the chain too short to run 52x30 or too long to run 40x12 - or both. I know these combinations shouldn't be used anyway but it's indicative that the RD's struggling a bit and the spring is being stretched and relaxed to its limit.

 

[migrantwing]

I was going to get the drill out and put some hooks up to hang the bikes in the brick shed that I have. I've had the dreaded man flu for a week, just coughed and now I have pain down my right leg and lower back and can hardly move. FFS!

 

[HLaB]

Spotted a bit of a cut in my rear tyre tread. Probably could be fixed with super glue but I never had any to hand but I did have a tyre, so I fitted that. Its been a funny day here weather wise too; mostly crisp clear and dry but the occasional shower is getting blown in on an easterly, so I bodged on a rear mudguard as well.

 

[HertzvanRental]

Fitted triple chainset to Claude Butler. Also needed to change FD, but found a NOS, silly cheap on e-bay. Only had time for a whizz around the block, but, so far, everything seems ok.Also fitted some lights and a bottle cage. I'm worn out!!

 

[Hacienda71]

Fitted a dropper on my mtb to try to offset some of my crap technique when descending. Will try it out Sunday am at Macclesfield Forest.

 

[Illaveago]

I thought I would see what the BSA Tour De France was like to ride, I have got a pair of old chrome wheels so I thought I would pop them in. Wouldn't fit! The gap wasn't wide enough. Emptied out half of my garage to get my hydraulic ram. Connected it up, slowly easing the frame out. Suddenly I felt my leg getting cold and wet. Sadly it comes with age! The piston seal had given up.
Now more fettling to do washing my jeans. The wheel now fits.

 

[Chris S]

Somebody had dumped a loop-framed Raleigh Chiltern by the recycle bins on my estate. I pumped up the tyres, adjusted the toggle chain so that it was in middle gear (the trigger shifter was broke) and took it for a ride. i was quite impressed. I was going to take it to a local bicycle recycling charity but now I might keep it for a pub bike. The lack of crossbar should make mounting and dismounting easier when I'm under the influence of alcolhol

 

[Kevoffthetee]

Change the terrible giant stock pr3 tyres to lithion2's and fitted th SRAM garmin mount to the Defy. Then it started raining so didn't get a chance to go out, might go and get muddy later on the MTB

 

[ColinJ]

Not a bike fettle, but the laptop I have been fettling is the computer that I use for plotting all of my forum rides, and also what I normally use to post on Cyclechat, so I think I should get away with mentioning it ...

It is an old laptop but it is fine for what I do so I don't see the need to buy a flashy new one. The hard drive was getting a bit full, however, and it has developed a few bad sectors over the past year so it was time for a new, bigger drive. I fancied trying an SSD (Solid-State Drive) for a performance improvement, power-saving, and to make the laptop more rugged. I know a couple of people who killed the HDDs in their laptops by being a bit clumsy with their machines while the drives were saving files. With an SSD inside, I can use my laptop on my lap without that worry. Unless I drop it or spill a drink over it, it should be fine.

I was up until 04:00 cloning the old HDD on a USB backup device, and then beginning the transfer back to the new SSD. I got tired and left it to finish the transfer while I snatched a few hours sleep. I have been using my tablet in bed to type this, but now it is time to go downstairs to find out whether I am now in SSD heaven, or SSD hell. Past experience tells me that there is bound to be some unforeseen problem leading to an unbootable laptop and a day off the bike, scouring the internet for advice. I am about to go downstairs, and I may be some time ... Wish me luck!

 

[ColinJ]

Noon on the first day. ColinJ holds his breath, powers up his laptop and ...

... hears 2 sharp beeps - 'No bootable devices'!

This could be a long day - time to put the kettle on!

 

[jayonabike]

Put a different set of wheels on the Ti bike, adjusted the brakes, cleaned the cassette, fitted a new chain and removed and cleaned the jockey wheels.

 

[ColinJ]

[Now on my SSD-powered laptop ]

Blimey - I thought I was going to get really stuck there, but a combination of tweaks got the computer working again! It seems to be quite a lot snappier than it was when working from the old HDD.

There is still work to be done. I had cloned the old 60 GB HDD and copied that over to the new 128 GB SSD so a chunk of over 60 GB of the new drive is currently wasted. I'll work out how to extend the partition later, but I thought I would take a coffee and CC break first!

PS The partition has now been extended (using WinPE, Diskpart, Extend) to fill the drive so I have plenty of free space. I am doing a bit of housekeeping to clear out a lot of junk files and then I think I will clone the new drive and keep that as a backup.

And tomorrow ... I'll get back to riding my bike!

 

[fatjel]

Fitted the new wheel with SP dynamo to the Kaffenback.. Is a bit heavier than the Aksium that normaly lives there
Seems to not spin as freely either..
Fitted the B&W light to the forks and we have Light !
Oh if it were that simple.. The light is designed to fit on the same bolt as the brakes
The Kaffenback has disc brake and no hole in the forks either
Managed to use the reflecter bracket from the old carrera with a longish bolt and very rusty washer.
Bolted to the right hand fork now .Looks crap but works..
The wheel came with a little bag with little plastic bits in which I put somewhere safe on thursday
Longest job of the day was finding said bag which contained the plug to wire up the light
Shall be up early to test it properly before it gets light

 

[Karlt]

Still struggling with that RD - it either doesn't want to go on the largest cog or the back of the cage hits the spokes. I think it's bent. Well, I was going to replace it anyway.