What Have You Fettled Today?

[T4tomo]

I realised when cleaning my best bike last night that the rear brake blocks were shot, so ended up nicking the reasonably new Swiss stops off a bike a rarely ride and doing a switch over front and rear. That does mean I have a bike with no rear pads now until I get some ordered, but no rush as I doubt it will get ridden until my son grows a few inches.

 

[Salty seadog]

The oven, racks soaking in a slimy corrosive mixture that works wonders, the inside cleaned and sparkling, door off glass out and cleaned.

 

[numbnuts]

Been doing up my MTB for the winter, today fitted a new computer, adjusted the brakes, gears and oiled the chain and now it's all ready for the mud

 

[DCLane]

Cleaned the Wilier after my ride to Birkin and with BBM's chaingang this morning: https://www.strava.com/activities/752227451

Then I continued working on the Graham Weigh frameset from @rugbyleaguebiker . It's gained shifters and canti brakes, although I'm not at all happy with the fit of the brakes. The original Shimano wheels have been swapped with Bontrager ones - more spokes and can take wider tyres so should be better for cyclocross use.

Hard work here was done on the decal residue: after an hour with nail varnish remover all the residue was off the seatstays and seat tube but I've given up with the downtube. It must have been a different glue used so I'm off to eBay for a big decal! Preferably green with a touch of pink and purple as that'll be the new colour scheme.

It was this:

First photo now it resembles a bike:

Still to do:

- Measure and cut down the forks
- Change the rear cassette to a 9 speed
- Cable outers and inners and canti brake cables
- Chain
- Bar tape, which'll be the spare lime green one I have

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I spent 2.5 hours cleaning my tourer/commuter bike and the road bike. The former got dirty from the ride back from a local bike shop, where it had its freehub body serviced. I'd cleaned it last weekend before bringing it to the shop, but then I got rained on heading home from the shop yesterday, because spring hasn't sprung here yet. The latter bike I'd used all week as the backup commuter, and got rained on several times, so it was filthy.
Both bikes got a chain oil and full wipe of the drivetrain, so they're both ready to use again.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

My fettling has been spread over the weekend. I don't know if anyone remembers but I had to refit an old rear wheel to the knockabout bike back in June due to a failing rim and 4 months/1366 miles later have finally got round to fitting a replacement.

I bought 2 new rear and 1 front which with the old useable wheels gives me three workable sets. A bit of swapping round of tyres gives a set of Marathon, Marathon Winter or Snow Stud available as required.

Being inexpensive wheels I stripped, greased and adjusted the bearings before fitting as I find they last better this way. I've also changed the gear inner and outer cables (I don't remember this bike ever shifting this smoothly - Shimano outers are worth the little extra IMHO) and shortened the brake cables which were too long after having lowered the handlebars earlier in the year.

Finally, I've fitted a fork crown mount for my B&M Ixon lamp just to see how it compares to the handlebar mounts I'm used to.

I need to order spare chains and a couple of cassettes then I should be all set up for a winter of commuting.

 

[RoubaixCube]

Installed the new brake calipers -- sadly the rear brake cable was in rather bad condition so that will definitely need to be replaced tomorrow.

 

[steve50]

Fitted Handlebar extender and new front light, taken bike for a quick ride round the block in the dark and am very impressed with the light,
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252380965204?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
also purchased power pack for the light and converted power lead to usb to suit, works a treat.

 

[Old Yellow]

Washed my bike after a mucky ride yesterday, then started cleaning my wife's 87 Dawes Lady Galaxy mixte so that we can decide what to do with it. It has been in the shed for about 15 years since she last rode. She wants to ride again, but needs something easier to ride now, so the Galaxy will have to go to a new home!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

new chain rings (well worn 42 and 52 replaced by new 39 and 53), new chain, new cassette, new lifeline clip-on mudguards which are the first ever mudguards i've fitted with no swearing involved…

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Fettled my Eastway this afternoon before it goes into hibernation for the winter. It got washed down after its last ride, this afternoon it got a good polish, greased and oiled, whilst I was doing that I tightened the front wheel bearings that had started to work loose, I also put a new Durano Plus tyre on the front, transfered the old front to the back and ditched the well worn back tyre. I also checked the chain and was surprised to find that it wasn't as worn as I was expecting, it'll still need replacing when I get the bike out in the spring, its the second chain on this cassette and it looks like I'll get a third, this year is my first year retired and I've done more mileage on the geared bike than I used to do when I was working, then I did most of my miles on my fixed.

 

[DCLane]

Bits and pieces today:

- Cleaned my Wilier Izoard and my son's Giant TCR after our ride this morning: https://www.relive.cc/view/759153323

- Then set to on the Felt Q200 I crashed on. A proper check this week revealed a crack so it's been dismantled for parts: wheels off, new crankset off, rear derailleur and hanger plus other bits off and out for scrap. Anything left on it is either broken or rusty.

- Fitted a different saddle and a rear mudguard to the Raleigh Pioneer Trail I bought this week. That'll take over MTB-style duties from the Felt.

- Swapped the brakes on the Graham Weigh project as I wasn't happy with the canti brakes I had. Tektro Oryx fitted and I'm happier.

- Got my Eastway R4.0 out for winter commuter duties. Lights on and it's ready to go.

To do tomorrow:

- Fit mudguards to my youngest's Formeula 700. We've found a pair that should fit.
- Fit decals to the Graham Weigh project plus (hopefully) a replacement bottle cage and then get the cables done. I'll also measure the forks for cutting if I've time but want to do that properly so it may have to wait a few days.
- If I get bored I might have a go at fitting the front mudguard to the Raleigh but it's too wide at the moment: out with the measuring stick and a big knife.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Fettling clearing out the garage to make room for the second car for winter, and also getting the K2 hybrid some different tires, found while clearing out the garage. Going from wide hybrid tires 700x37 to 700x28, and fitting a different saddle.

 

[Elybazza61]

Yesterday morning was spentstripping and cleaning the other half's new hybrid,details here;


Link has been removed as the thread involved will hopefully be deleted on my request.

 

[DCLane]

The Eastway winter bike's LH pedal's bent. I sort of remember back in March thinking "is this working right?" and clearly never did anything about it. Oh and the front brakes were more worn than I thought. Going downhill wasn't the best place to find this out on the first 'winter' outing.

So ... it's got a new pair of front brake pads and a used Ultegra 6620 pair of pedals.

And I fitted a pair of mudguards to my youngest's Formeula 700 commuter. They were Cycraguard ones I'd had sat waiting for a pair of wide-enough tyres and he pinched them before they could be used on my Raleigh Pioneer. Lots of weird fittings but I got them there in the end.