What Have You Fettled Today?

[GoldDust]

Just brought myself a brand new spanking rd bike. C Boardman to be precise . So I have been very busy with it last few days tweaking and perfecting everything

 

[Jenkins]

Still awaiting delivery of the Mk2 SKS Raceblade Longs as the plastic clip on the rear guard of my original pair has broken. Meanwhile I've bodged a fitting by taking the mud flap off and putting a bolt through there to hold it to the brake bridge clip - essentially using it upside down and permanently fitted.

 

[Citius]

Just brought myself a brand new spanking rd bike. C Boardman to be precise . So I have been very busy with it last few days tweaking and perfecting everything

Does that include wrapping the bars in clingfilm?

 

[gbb]

Not today but been waiting for the pc to upload photos...
Wifes hybrid, she's been asking to have her lights refitted, its been a while since she's used it in the dark, way over a year.. so
An Enix 14v Li-ion 4x 18650 pack mounted in the topbox.

Homebrew 2x Cree (I think) LEDs, probably 1watt each fitted with a Cateye bracket bonded to the housing..

Cables run from topbox/battery to the light..light now plugged into external charger..

nd remarkably, the battery pack has sat in a box for waaaay over a year and still had loads of power straight away...

Job done, she's happy.

 

[themosquitoking]

New rim tape and valve fitted to my tubeless wheel, i was having a real problem getting it to inflate.

 

[Psycolist]

With the amount of rain in the last 24 hours, I've just switched over to my Alberts in the hope of a few miles in the mire tomorrow, fingers crossed.

 

[HLaB]

My rear mud guard started to rub at the end of last week's ride so I removed it for the Wednesday night and today's fast rides as the roads were dry on Wednesday and in morning but quite a bit of rain fell this afternoon and tomorrow's a social ride so I refitted them and hopefully worked out what was rubbing so if it happens again, I can fix it on the ride.

 

[Profpointy]

another (non-bike) day of muppet-worthy fettling but ultimately successful !

My very old, but rather good Mission amp working only on one speaker. After a bit of trouble shooting, decided one set of inputs were dodgy, so using another set all was well. After a bit more fiddling, with it running with board removed loose on my dining room table, managed to short something and the bloody thing wouldn't work at all ! Presumably had bust something on the input or pre-amp half.
None the wiser fiddling around trying to test transistors in situ (bearing in mind I don't really know what I'm doing).

Turn to ebay - looks like I can get another (the same) for a hundred quid or so, or what about these Quads and Naims?

After tea, tried one more thing, which it couldn't possibly be - the separate box booster power supply fuses (inside the box, not the plug I might add) - which it couldn't possibly be, and sure enough all works lovely again.

Luckily I'd not yet started bidding on fleabay !

 

[Gravity Aided]

Built a little stove for Esbit out of a small Altoids tin, a sink strainer, some hardware cloth, and a bit of aluminum flashing . As I cannot seem to get an Esbit stove around here, all of a sudden.

 

[cyberknight]

Put the new wheelset on he Boardman,man the freewheel is loud!

 

[hedder2212]

Cable tied the pannier bags onto the bike after some little twonker tried to nick them and got caught by me and a friend.
me - "alright mate what are you doing there then"
him - "none of your f*cking business"
me - "well it is because its my f*cking bike you twit"

action to teach the little sod a lesson may or may not have been taken...
Cable ties will take care of that never happening again

 

[HLaB]

Cable tied the pannier bags onto the bike after some little twonker tried to nick them and got caught by me and a friend.
me - "alright mate what are you doing there then"
him - "none of your f*cking business"
me - "well it is because its my f*cking bike you twit"

action to teach the little sod a lesson may or may not have been taken...
Cable ties will take care of that never happening again

 

[hedder2212]

I just poured water over the little sod... I might keep some just for that though

 

[Elybazza61]

Gave the Planet X a quick once-over before the working week;just a swab down,chain clean and gear shift check,plus an adjust on the pads.Also gave some squirts of ACF-50* on some of the more delicate parts to help against corrosion.

*It's this if anyone is wondering;

http://www.acf-50.co.uk/acf-50.htm

Used to use it on my long gone R1(motorcycle),really good stuff but like wd-40 don't get it on the tyres.

 

[Tin Pot]

Argh.

Just as the sun yes goes I remember I need to clean the tonne of mud off my bike from Wednesday.