Picked up some left hand thread screw remover tools today. Took out the rounded bottle cage bolt and the broken bottle cage and replaced it. Quite easy to use the tool, once you figure out which of the heads is best. I was thinking i needed a smaller one at first but it turns out the larger m8 was best as it gripped the head and pulled it out.
What Have You Fettled Today?
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GuyBoden
Guru
- Location
- Warrington
Had an interesting few hours yesterday taking off a 1980's Shimano Uniglide hub to change some spokes in the wheel and clean/grease the loose bearings.
Elybazza61
Guru
Quick fettle last night on the XLS to sort the cadence sensor out with a fresh tie-wrap as the problem was it was moving about on the crank arm,also gave the chain a wipe-over as it's been pretty wet and mucky the last couple of days.
If you have a steel axled pedal, just pick up a 10mm neodymium magnet and put it on the pedal axle. It'll never move.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
The weather turned nasty here today so I am not going to go out on my bike. I want to get a turbo session in this evening to keep my legs working. The only problem is - I have pinched the shifters from my Basso (current turbo trainer bike) and cannibalised them to use the brake levers on my singlespeed project. Without any gear cables on the bike to adjust the derailleurs, it defaulted to a stupid gear. I will be upgrading the Basso to 10 speed in future but that will have to wait until I have finished the s/s bike.
I needed a quick fix to get the Basso usable on the turbo. The front mech could be held in place for the middle ring using its low gear endstop screw so I did that. I tried doing the same with the rear mech but I could only move the chain up one sprocket with the short official screw. That gear is much higher than I want to use so I had a hunt through my junk boxes and found a long screw with the same thread. I pushed the mech up by hand and screwed the new endstop in as far as it would go to hold the mech in that gear.
The Basso is temporarily a s/s turbo bike with a 39/17 gear ratio. I can put stupid amounts of resistance on the turbo so I don't need a higher gear than that, but I can still pedal at a decent cadence with the turbo resistance set to minimum.
If the sleet stops for a while I am going to go out and buy some drill bits to use to make a chainwhip out of a redundant headset spanner.
I needed a quick fix to get the Basso usable on the turbo. The front mech could be held in place for the middle ring using its low gear endstop screw so I did that. I tried doing the same with the rear mech but I could only move the chain up one sprocket with the short official screw. That gear is much higher than I want to use so I had a hunt through my junk boxes and found a long screw with the same thread. I pushed the mech up by hand and screwed the new endstop in as far as it would go to hold the mech in that gear.
The Basso is temporarily a s/s turbo bike with a 39/17 gear ratio. I can put stupid amounts of resistance on the turbo so I don't need a higher gear than that, but I can still pedal at a decent cadence with the turbo resistance set to minimum.
If the sleet stops for a while I am going to go out and buy some drill bits to use to make a chainwhip out of a redundant headset spanner.
Elybazza61
Guru
Finished the better halfs' Giant;cut the 'guard stays down, levelled the saddle and put on the chain stay and frame protecters.
Then gave the Icarus a once-over before tomorrows club ride.
Then gave the Icarus a once-over before tomorrows club ride.
Nigel182
Guru
- Location
- Chafford Hundred,Essex
New "Old Skool" Tyre fitted to the 29'er
now waiting for a rear to match
found a rear should be here soons
now waiting for a rear to match
found a rear should be here soons
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Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Currently moving all my bicycle repair gear to my basement, as well as tools and workbench, so cars can come in the garage. Then I'll start work on my G.LaPierre Tour de France. This job may happen quickly, as in the States our Thanksgiving Holiday falls, as always, on Thursday, and we get Friday off as well, so I have 5 days off in a row, as I have Wednesday off regularly. The LaPierre has good paint, so it won't be a heavy duty steel-up restoration, like the currently stalled Fuji project, nor require welders to get involved, like the Olmo .
HarryTheDog
Guru
- Location
- Basildon Essex
Went to put on new chainrings ( well a powermeter Powertap C1 chainring) which need compact chainset 110 BCD, so had to take my old 130 BCD's off. couldn't get the old cranks off, the crank end retaining hex bolt was completely rounded off. So had to resort to drastic methods.ie a grinder. Also then noticed my rear rim/wheel ( Mavic Kyserium Equippe) could maybe do with replacing soon, suprised as barely a year old has done around 6000 miles. Also tyre has a nice groove in the sidewall. Luckily I have a spare wheel ( Shimano Ultegra) to get me through next weeks commute.
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simon.r
Person
- Location
- Nottingham
I thought it's safe to say that rim's past its use by date
HarryTheDog
Guru
- Location
- Basildon Essex
Turns out the Ultegra wheel had also gone well through its wear marker ( don't particularly like them anyway) and also another wheel I found in the shed ( shimano R500) also had no-existent wear markers.Put them out for the tip so I won't be temted to use them again. No way was I going to put a carbon on for winter or my hardly ever used Mavic A120 32 spoke touring wheel ( wiegh's a ton) so resorted to stealing a Coles Rollen wheel off my wife's bike. she never rides it anyway. Massive faff swapping cassettes and tyres but finished now.
I do like the Ksyrium's so will look out for a bargain for Xmas, seems there are some 2016's about, or maybe a Campy Zonda .
I do like the Ksyrium's so will look out for a bargain for Xmas, seems there are some 2016's about, or maybe a Campy Zonda .
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Cleaned the Eastway R4.0 after a week's commuting and this morning's rain-fest: https://www.strava.com/activities/779608543
Also fitted a front derailleur and new chain to the Raleigh Pioneer Trail - it's now got a 52/39/30 setup which is much better than the 39/30/22 it had. It's not shifting cleanly though: need to think about this one.
I've been slowing building up a Graham Weigh frameset that I bought from here into a bike. Today the rear wheel got a 9-speed cassette and a chain fitted. It's also cabling time; all cable outers done in black, gear cables done and the rear brake's done but the front brake needs a stem cable guide (ordered). Everything then just needs adjusting before the green bar tape goes on and finally the front forks will need cutting down to fit better.
Also fitted a front derailleur and new chain to the Raleigh Pioneer Trail - it's now got a 52/39/30 setup which is much better than the 39/30/22 it had. It's not shifting cleanly though: need to think about this one.
I've been slowing building up a Graham Weigh frameset that I bought from here into a bike. Today the rear wheel got a 9-speed cassette and a chain fitted. It's also cabling time; all cable outers done in black, gear cables done and the rear brake's done but the front brake needs a stem cable guide (ordered). Everything then just needs adjusting before the green bar tape goes on and finally the front forks will need cutting down to fit better.
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GuyBoden
Guru
- Location
- Warrington
Treble bar tape. 
I've wrapped another layer of bar tape on the Winter bike, I already had double, so now that's treble bar tape. My logic was that if double feels good, treble might feel better. It does look bulky, but it's very comfy over the rough country lanes.
I've wrapped another layer of bar tape on the Winter bike, I already had double, so now that's treble bar tape. My logic was that if double feels good, treble might feel better. It does look bulky, but it's very comfy over the rough country lanes.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Changed the bottom bracket on my commuter.
Vantage
Carbon fibre... LMAO!!!
- Location
- Behind everyone else, Bolton
Not strictly a "done today" job, but I've spent the last week sanding away that crap black paint that adorns every cycle component made these days from my adjustable stem, new flat handlebar and seatpost...then polished them to a mirror-like finish, fitted them (converting bike to a flat bar tourer) fettled the brakes and gears, fitted the snow tyres and went for my first ride since friggin August. It handled nicely 
