What Have You Fettled Today?

[Hedgemonkey]

Came off the giant road bike on ice today at 8 miles .Moved the brake lever a tad which was just shoved back on the road . Bike behave ok for the next 24 miles . But got back and bike got full wash and inspection and brake lever shifter lined up and tighten . Thankfully no further damage found

Me too, the impact with the ground pushed the front brake lever round the bars and scuffed the bar tape, but luckily that was all, bruised knee, grazed elbow and dented pride. So once home realign stuff.

it was b***dy icy in places.

 

[DCLane]

Not fettled but 'returned to standard'. My Wilier Izoard XP is going to be sold and with someone interested I replaced the changes with standard parts I'd kept (crankset, wheels, stem, seatpost, saddle, pedals) although I couldn't find the original brakes so fitted some new Campag ones instead.

I then fitted a new bottle cage to my youngest's Giant TCR (he broke it!) and a front mudguard to the Raleigh Pioneer.

 

[Jamieyorky]

Quick gear tune on the Cube this morning while the wife went shopping, fitted my garmin mount which i got for xmas and gave the bike a good bit of tlc.

Then went on to fit my front rack onto my new tourer.

 

[Psycolist]

That is a smooth looking bike, I have a thing for bare aluminium, but that dark blue must come in a very close second. It looks like quite a small crank from this picture. What size rings are you using ?

 

[Jamieyorky]

That is a smooth looking bike, I have a thing for bare aluminium, but that dark blue must come in a very close second. It looks like quite a small crank from this picture. What size rings are you using ?

There 175mm triple with 48/38/28 chainrings.

 

[Spoked Wheels]

I should have posted yesterday but....

Yesterday, I prepared my grandson new Islabike Beinn large, new to him anyway. I bought it for him last month and it had very minor things that needed looked at, before I give it to him.

The idea was to do a full service and I began by servicing the front hub. Adjusting the brakes and retouching the paint work on the rear of the drive side. Fitted new grips and when I went through the gears I noticed the chain would not drop to the highest gear.... I missed that when I bought it. The gears run smoothly through the cassette except the smallest cog. On inspection I noticed the adjustment is at it max so the previous owner already tried to fix the problem. On further inspection I think the problem is with the derailleur hanger. I don't have the tool to check it so I'm considering to buy one as it is handy to have one with 5 other bikes in the house. In the meantime I noticed the hanger looks, identical to me, to the hanger on another bike so I ordered it from Halfords and I'll pick it up today.

The bike looks lovely and they are really well made. I'm very impressed with it. I'm sure Reuben is going to love it

 

[gavgav]

Gave the bike a wash down, to clear the mud from yesterday's ride, in time for @Rickshaw Phil to arrive and fit my new cassette and chain .

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

As mentioned above ^^^, fitted the new chain and cassette to @gavgav's bike, which went well.

After riding home I cleaned off the knockabout bike following the century ride yesterday. It took rather longer than usual as the bike was really filthy.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Gave the bike a wash down, to clear the mud from yesterday's ride, in time for @Rickshaw Phil to arrive and fit my new cassette and chain .

It is good practice to clean your bike before handing it over to a mechanic: next time, to go the extra mile, also take the chain and cassette off for him

 

[gavgav]

It is good practice to clean your bike before handing it over to a mechanic: next time, to go the extra mile, also take the chain and cassette off for him

Yes, indeed @Rickshaw Phil said next time it will be my turn to have a go, let's hope I took enough mental notes on how to do it

 

[Leaway2]

New gear cable fitted after it snapped on the way into work. Thanks to the chap in Halfords who "sourced" me out a new cable as there were none on the shelves. A nice touch at the shop is that they have installed a track pump out side.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Fitted the Ergon GP2 grips and the Knog Oi bell to the Hendricks. The grips are fine and well-made - the bar-end plugs fit so well I had to cut slots in the fins of the second one to let the air out as I fitted it! I'm not especially convinced by the Oi, yet. If you fit it tight enough to stop it moving, it doesn't make much of a sound.

 

[Psycolist]

There 175mm triple with 48/38/28 chainrings.

Must just be the angle the picture was taken from. I usually find I run out of gears with a 48 largest ring, but I do not/ can not spin up my cadence the way some do. I prefer to run quite low revolutions per minute, and find that a 48 leaves me feeling like I have run out of gears. Then again I have never ridden a bike loaded up with luggage, I guess you are always going to need different gearing if you are riding fully loaded.

 

[NorthernDave]

This evening, I have been mainly changing an inner tube...

If you read the "Your ride today" thread (and let's face it, who doesn't?), you might remember that the weekend before last I encountered Farmer Palmer and his mate hacking hedges to bits, and that this weekend I noticed I'd acquired a very slow puncture (not enough to stop me getting 50-odd miles in though).

So tonight has been the first chance I've had to fettle it.
The big selling point of Gatorskins is their resistance to all things pointy, which is just as well as I'm out of practice at tyre removal and there was a bit of huffing and puffing to be had getting it off the rim. At least I was in a nice warm kitchen than at the side of the road...
It didn't take long to find this beauty stuck through the tyre once I'd removed the tube - it was a darn sight pointier to start with as it took a lot of persuasion to get it back out of the tyre - in fact I think I'd have really struggled to remove it at the roadside.

Anyhow, all done, quick check of the tube and the inside of the tyre to make sure it was just the one, then opened a spare tube to find Halfords had kindly sold me some with the 60mm long valves, which would have looked stupid.
Fortunately I had one with the right length valve, so I got that out and fitted, then wrestled the Gator back onto the rim.
Pumped up, all checked and sitting nicely and back on the bike only to have a grating noise when I gave it a spin to make sure it was sitting properly.
a check revealed that the mudguard had shifted, so that was a nice easy fix.

All done and ready to ride! And good practice in case I get another visit from you know who...

 

[lutonloony]

Is this purely bike fettling ?