What Have You Fettled Today?

[DCLane]

Preparation for my club's 120-mile ride on Sunday and my son going back to school:

• The Wilier Izoard got 2 new GP4000s tyres and some Swissstop blue pads.
• His Formeula 700 got 2 Conti CX Pro tyres and the wheels re-greased.

 

[rockpig]

New wheels arrived yesterday. Just cheap Mavic Aksium ones but it means I can have the original set with knobbly tyres for when the kids want to go for a charge along the canal path and a set with slicks for on the road. Thought I'd bought everything (wheels, disc brake rotors, tubes, cassette) then found the cassette is attached using a lock ring. Heading off to LBS this morning to buy the tool to tighten it up. Doh! Really should have done a bit more research. Thought the cassette span onto the wheel and locked itself. Think that's called a freewheel rather than a cassette. You learn something new everyday.

 

[RoubaixCube]

Cleaned the triban after a rather dusty towpath ride earlier in the week. strangely enough i decided to clean and grease my shifters as well for the first time. Degreased & lubed with GT85 but i dont have more thicker grease for keeping it lubed for longer. I'll need to pop down to halfords i think.

I have some LM grease that my dad used to use on his car in the shed somewhere but im not quite sure where that is or if its suitable.

 

[palinurus]

Had a look at the old Trek Navigator that I sometimes use to go to the shops on. The back brake cable was so rusty it wasn't moving. Replaced both cables, inners, then noticed the rear wheel had some play, pulled out the bearings and they were all pitted, cones also and presumably the insides of the hub. Cleaned it up and re-greased it, stuck it all back together- it was better (it'll get me the 1 mile to Sainsbury's until I get around to finding a cheap 26" wheel). BB needs replacing too!

Also- when I put the wheel back in it wasn't centred and the QR wouldn't clamp properly. I'd almost given up when I found the missing extra spacer on the ground.

I should get rid of it really- no room to store it with the others in the Asgard locker, it's currently under a bike cover.

 

[Jenkins]

Put a new inner chainring on my 13 Alpha so it's now running my preferred 50/38 gearing up front.

 

[MPChurch]

Yesterday my new parts arrived!

In rebuilding my cannondale supersix evo with Di2 and FSA carbon finishing kit.

So, on went the new system and kwing bars, followed by the shifters. Fully cabled up the gears and brakes. Still no battery so I couldn't set the gears.
The bb386evo replaces the stock fsa gossamer chainset, but the axles are a different lengths. Nearly died on realising that one (obviously not enough research into the kit I was buying). Managed to find a bb386-bb30 adapter on wiggle, so that's been ordered.
Once I can get the new chainset and battery on I can set the gears, take it out for a spin, get the bars and shifters into their final position and wrap the bar tape.
I'll post some pics when is done.

Today I get to service the brompton.

 

[Buck]

After a nice ride out today which included a short section past a farm that meant the road was covered in mud and slurry , I needed to give the bike a really good clean !! (Me too but I had a shower as soon as I got in !!)

Youngest Buck helped me and we got it up on the stand and plenty of cloths and hot water and it was clean again.

Whilst it was on the stand, I decided to remove the front fork and check/regrease the head bearings.

Never having done this I had watched a video or two and was amazed how much gunk was in the headtube. A good clean and a regrease followed by a careful reassembly and job done

 

[MistaDee]

Fitted my new light mcfk stem (95grams for 120mm)

https://www.bike24.com/p276971.html

 

[si_c]

New wheelset, as the rear rim on the old one had buckled completely, it will go in my pile of broken stuff. Will probably try my hand at wheelbuilding one day, so might be useful.

Also replaced the rear shifter cable, front brake cable, and repaired the front brake as the barrel adjuster had snapped. Also put new tires on the bike as the new rims are wider (17mm internal not 13mm) so didn't really want to put 23c tires on. I'd bought some bontrager aw2 25cs a while back ready for winter, so they've gone on too.

Just need to go for a ride and make sure it all rolls nicely.

 

[Elybazza61]

Got the new Schwalbe s-ones on the Archetype wheels and filled with sealant.Will get a first ride tomorrow.

 

[stoatsngroats]

First fitting of raceblades today, I think they look ok, and ready for a wet comute, hopefully though, not this week!

 

[si_c]

Stripped down the RD, removed jockey wheels and cleaned out most of the paste that had formed underneath the plates. Relubed and put back together again. I think it's running a touch quieter than it was, but to be honest can't really tell, it wasn't exactly noisy before, but figured giving it a clean wouldn't hurt as I'm probably not going to do it again before spring.

Job for next weekend: New bar tape. Already have it but got distracted by Sunday Lunch out and the Vuelta.

 

[Jenkins]

New rear brake disc & pads to my Whyte Sussex.

 

[Elybazza61]

Got the Trek hybrid/tourer/hack thing finished(ish) yesterday.And today got the Tortec rack on which arrived from Wiggle;quick test ride to do the shopping and mostly ok just some adjustment needed for the front mech.

Also today started re-cabling the Planet X with shiny new Shimano cables;still to finish that yet.

 

[jarlrmai]

New headset bearing.