What Have You Fettled Today?

[Jamieyorky]

Mrs doing the garden all afternoon so I managed to get the commuter and the Cube washed and lubed plus a hour or so tittivating with the 1951 Robin Hood Sports.

 

[DCLane]

How did it go? Looked like a good line up.

Thanks for asking; not great - he didn't get into the front group so spent too much time riding on his own. It meant he got tired but it's a good lesson learnt and onto the next race this Wednesday a bit closer to home.

The line-up was good for most of the races with a tight, fast circuit.

 

[DCLane]

Tonight I (almost) finished my son's winter bike, which was started last weekend (see here) by:

• Fitting brake and gear cable inner and outers
• Fitting an Ultegra chain
• Adjusting said cables

Just the bar tape to fit and it's all done bar adjustments. He's not keeping the Superstars Components wheels in the photo however much he wants red wheels:

 

[DCLane]

I cleaned the Principia RSLe that arrived today and adjusted the rear mech:

It needs paint chips touching up, a chain and bar end plugs.

Also fitted bar tape to my youngest's winter bike (the Giant TCR Composite above) so it's all done. It'll be out on the Richard Dunn track tomorrow evening having a shakedown.

 

[raleighnut]

I had a good fettle at the trike today, I needed to make a new support bracket for the battery rack (the one I'd made 2yrs back had snapped due to my bit of 'hooligan offroading antics') and it had spat the 'dolly chain' off (the one that transmits power from the 6 speed axle to the rear twin wheel axle)
All back to A1 condition now.

 

[fossyant]

Popped some XT M8020 trail pedals on the new Boardman FS Pro. Added a little more pressure into the rear shock having read up on the correct sag settings. Awaiting the dropper seatpost, and some heli tape. Might get chance for a spin tomorrow.

 

[Nibor]

I cleaned the Principia RSLe that arrived today and adjusted the rear mech:

It needs paint chips touching up, a chain and bar end plugs.

Also fitted bar tape to my youngest's winter bike (the Giant TCR Composite above) so it's all done. It'll be out on the Richard Dunn track tomorrow evening having a shakedown.

Humbrol do an enamel that would be a close match to that I think it is shade 222

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Working on the car again today, tidying up the rear wheel arches, rubbed down a few rust patches and sprayed on primer, just top coat to do tomorrow or Thursday, it depends on when the rain arrives.

 

[fossyant]

Fitted the dropper post to the Boardman MTB and heli-taped where the cables run.

I had about 1-2cm to play with in seat height when fitting the post - they only go down so far due to the collar ! Phew.

 

[gbb]

GP4000 S II's fitted to my Fulcrum 5s on the Ribble.
Tight to get off, tight to get on but not too bad.
My first folding tyres..bugger I must admit, I miss the wire bead, gives a tyre some body. Folders just seem more difficult to get into the rim properly.

 

[Glow worm]

In a probably fruitless effort to get rid of a mysterious clicking noise during each revolution of the cranks, I've replaced my pedals with new ones (flats). Haven't given them a go yet, but if the clicking is still there tomorrow there will be a lot of swearing.

 

[ColinJ]

In a probably fruitless effort to get rid of a mysterious clicking noise during each revolution of the cranks, I've replaced my pedals with new ones (flats). Haven't given them a go yet, but if the clicking is still there tomorrow there will be a lot of swearing.

On the off chance that the old pedals were mountain bike SPD type ... I have Shimano M520 pedals on my Cannondale. I had a mysterious clicking noise from the bike every time I was pedalling hard and it took me a long time to track down the source of the noise. It turned out that the Phillips/Posidrv(?) screws fixing the top plates on the pedals had come slightly loose. Tightening them got rid of the noise. Remember to do both sides of both pedals!

Speaking of annoying noises ... I was checking the bike today to make sure that it is in good order for my gruelling Yorkshire Dales forum ride from Settle tomorrow. I noticed a faint but irritating squeaky clicking noise when I operated the front brake. That turned out to be due to friction in one of the springs in the brake calliper. A drop of lube on the spring eliminated the noise. I have gone round the bike lubing every moving part except for the transmission which I will do later with a better quality lube after cleaning the chain.

 

[Elybazza61]

Yesterday was mostly spent re-building the Weigh ss with the new ISO bb,Exage callipers,bottle cage and the Veloflexes were put on the wheels with latex tubes.

Might give it a go tomorrow.

 

[dickyknees]

Started an oily rag restoration on this.
BB proved to be clean and smooth, gears are good.
Inspected the headset bearings, both cages looked OK, cleaned and new grease applied.
Still need to adjust the headset properly, can't quite get rid of the play without the steering being too stiff.

Marin Eldridge Grade 1991

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Did a bit more on the Dawes Galaxy. This session was a bit of a disaster really but the brakes are all assembled and work correctly which is nice.

The drive side crank still won't come off though and I've broken the new crank puller trying. Worse, the bike flung itself on the floor when I turned my back for a second so I have gouges out of the brand new RH shifter and rear derailleur which haven't even been wired up yet.