What Have You Fettled Today?

[redvision95]

Just had a fettle with my long suffering mobile phone.
Replaced the trackpad thing on my Blackberry Curve 9320.

 

[Tin Pot]

Should be quite simple. You just need to remember to thread the rear cage properly, it's quite easy to route the chain outside the cage by accident and then spend a couple of miles wondering what the god awful noise is .

Zinn's a good guide, won't go wrong with it if you're careful.

Well Zinn says don't feck about with the derailleur itself, just overhaul the jockey wheels, so I'll do that and reindex as its simple enough.

It was only a whim, not to address an issue anyway. If it ain't broke...

 

[redvision95]

SJ4000 mount back on with some cut up sponge to soften the vibrations a bit....
New rear brake pads.

 

[DCLane]

Fitted new tyres and tubes to the Raleigh Medale I bought on Monday, re-greased the front wheel and finished cleaning the rest of the grime. I now need to metal-polish the wheels, fit new bar tape and possibly re-grease the headset and it's done.

 

[Salad Dodger]

Gave both e-bikes a check over. Mrs Salad's one just needs tyres pumping up, but mine needed some playing about with the derailleur to get it to select gears properly. Hopefully it will be OK now.

 

[Elybazza61]

New Lizard Skins DSP bar tape on the Helium so all done now(until I see some nice shiny Dura-Ace bits for it);will post some updated pics up asap.

 

[robjh]

re-tightened the freehub body. I relubed it last weekend, reattached it but after a day's riding I noticed a wobble in the wheel that I eventually traced to a slightly loose freehub body. It seems tight again now but time will tell.

 

[redvision95]

Removed old rear dérailleur and found out why it wasnt shifting into any of the gears apart from two, it looks like a spring inside the dérailleur itself has snapped. Fitted a Shimano Tourney dérailleur onto the bike, I'm now getting 4 out of 6 gears, I'm going to spend some time on YouTube refreshing my mind on how to set up and tune gears. Hopefully I will have all six and possibly even the front gears working by tonight. Total spend on hack bike so far, £13.50 and still hasn't been stolen despite being left in some really sh*tty areas with a sh*tty lock

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Gave the Tricross a long overdue clean and took the ice tyres off the hybrid, so if it gets icy next week I am to blame. Oh and put the panniers back on our lasses bike after it came back from the lbs looking like new.

 

[13 rider]

Gave the Tricross a long overdue clean and took the ice tyres off the hybrid, so if it gets icy next week I am to blame. Oh and put the panniers back on our lasses bike after it came back from the lbs looking like new.

If the weather's terrible next week we know who to blame

 

[ianrauk]

I used this most excellent video from @Globalti to clean and regrease both top and bottom headset bearings in my commuter.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

If the weather's terrible next week we know who to blame

That must be a TMN to be? Calling @User13710

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Congratulations. Is it your first?

Yes

 

[Supersuperleeds]

You'll soon get fed up with them .

Maybe, but you always remember your first

 

[Salad Dodger]

About 10 posts ago, I commented on checking the ebikes over. Went into the garage today and my ebikes front tyre was flat. Yes, a visit from the p*****re fairy. Very fortunately, the bikes motor is in the back wheel, so fixing a flat front tyre was straightforward. Hopefully it is holding up, but I do have a spare tube in the camper van just in case........