What Have You Fettled Today?

[Blurb]

Fitted my first clipless pedals today to give them a go on the Ventura. Had a moment whilst practicing up and down my road. Grass verge is very comfortable :-)
New cassette and chain on the commuter.

 

[Elybazza61]

Can of worms opened up yesterday.

After me and the better half giving the Avail and Helium a quick swab down after the morning ride I decided to have a fettle of the Trek 'shopper',the gears had been a bit iffy so tried to re-set them up only for the Sram shifter to die.

So,after a bit of messing with the shifter trying to get it to work,thought I'd change tack and do what I'd been thinking about lately and actually turn it in to a drop-bar tourer/workhorse.

Had a look in the box of spares and found the old 105 10-spd flightdeck shifters a set of Deda bars and an old Deore(8 or 9 spd) long cage mech;all fitted only to remember that I didn't actually have any cables long enough,so fettling stopped and Macbook on and some cheap Clarks cables and pads ordered along with some bar tape from Planet X.

Once I get the cables I'll see if the mech and shifters will play nicely together;if not I do have a 105 mech but it's a short cage so limited to a 28 max cassette I think so may have to look at something else that would work,prob older 105/ultegra/tiagra long/medium cage 10-spd.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Good deed of the day yesterday, did a quick service on a friends niece's Townsend kids BSO.

It had apparently been in our local Hellfrauds to be fettled but come out even worse.

Gear cables weren't fitted into frame lugs, (so no front mech), tyre pressures were low, brakes were over adjusted so wheels didn't spin, and chain was filthy.

No parts needed, brakes and gears adjusted properly, chain thoroughly 'Mickled', tyres inflated correctly, everything else checked front to back and a good wash made for one very happy kid

 

[Nibor]

View attachment 140668 View attachment 140667 Sorting the lights today.
One of my wee bullet lights on the Pashley flew off yesterday and I lost the little shaped bracket, but I have footered about and got them both back, more securely, I hope
Also managed to get the Moon front light on the road bike, tight squeeze but made it
Ready to roll

What are those rear lights they are excellent

 

[mythste]

Mudguards back on the Genesis. It was a fun month...

Also swapped out the 11-28 for an 11-32, which im quite proud to have done myself! However, question for anyone thats done this sort of thing before. When tightening the new cassette lockring (in this case 105 11 spd) It didnt seem to be a smooth linear tightening, but almost creaky tightening. I know it says 40nm on the ring which I put down somewhere between "bastard tight" and "stupid tight". All looks alright... When will I know if its not?

 

[Nibor]

they are almos ratcheted in their locking ring don't worry

 

[mythste]

they are almos ratcheted in their locking ring don't worry

I was hoping someone would say that! Yes, Ratcheting perfectly decribes the feeling, thanks

 

[Mrs M]

What are those rear lights they are excellent

They are Soma silver bullet lights.
Took ages hunting for them and finally found on EBay.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

New rear sprocket on the Birdy to finish the rear end drivetrain refurb off.

And

I have had to imprpvise a violently destructive solution to remove its front mudguard that has been well and truly attached for the past 14 years of all weather riding. The torn to pieces of it are off and I've managed to get all of the bolts removed ready for the new ones arriving

 

[Psycolist]

A neighbour called in this evening, and asked if I could do anything with her saddle. Sadly, the answer was NO ! It had come adrift from the rail on one side and split down the middle. While she walked round to Hellfrauds to price up a new one I stopped the front brake pads rubbing on the rim and freed the wheel to actually spin with some liberal doses of WD40 to the inner cable, adjusted the rear V brake so that it actually gripped the rim when moving the lever. Honestly, the bike was a death trap without a working brake. She uses it to visit her home help ladies so relies on it on a daily basis. I also noticed that the tyres, apart from having very low pressure, were very worn. When she returned, without a saddle, I had a proper good moan at her about the condition of her bike. She has agreed to leave it with me for a few hours at the weekend so that I can work my magic and bring the beast back to a safe and rideable condition, get her gears working properly, do a proper job on the brakes, fit new tyres and get a different saddle sorted out. Honestly, if you rely on a bit of gear to be able to earn a living, I would have thought that a bit more care would be taken to make sure it was in OK condition, but apparently not. Ahh well, I will enjoy the challenge.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Done and ready to roll again.

I may switch the rear derailleur chain tensioner for a short cage one at some time but I was impatient to get it sorted and ready to roll again so grabbed the only one available.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

New chain and clean of RD, FD chainset and cassette.

 

[Elybazza61]

Not fettled as such but been trying to help someone here at work who thought it was a good idea to drill a set of (cheap) carbon forks to get some (cheap) calipers to fit.

It's been a long saga of him spending money on lots of cheapo bits on bikes that are at the end going to be worth feck all(one of which was a Muddy Fox MTB which he lost money on) and not make any difference,just to try and make them lighter.

Weird thing is he earns a fair bit more than me too;at least he hasn't messed his nice Mekk up yet.

 

[iandg]

New tyres and rear brake blocks on the cross-check and adjusted the position of the levers on the bars. I was well chuffed that I got the tape off without ripping it and could re-use it - then on the trail this afternoon I toppled on a technical section and ripped it in a couple of places on brambles

 

[Nigelnaturist]

New cheap saddle as my other has split.