What Have You Fettled Today?
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Rustybucket
Veteran
- Location
- South Coast
iandg
Legendary Member
- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
Finished the Genesis Equilibrium build 
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
My fettling today was replacing the thumb control on my Rose/Bosch ebike.
It's been acting up a bit recently, possibly not helped by me dropping the bike on ice last month.
The screws in the pic are ludicrously small and very fiddly to fit where they screw in under the main display.
Quite pleased to have managed the job.
The new control came with four screws, so I had eight to play with.
Just as well, as I dropped two never to be seen again.
The little red oblong is a gasket which is about the thickness of a thread of cotton.
Fortunately, the existing gasket stayed in place - I doubt I could have managed to replace it.
The fixing under the main display doesn't get a lot of weather, maybe a bit of dust, so reusing the gasket shouldn't be a problem.
It's been acting up a bit recently, possibly not helped by me dropping the bike on ice last month.
The screws in the pic are ludicrously small and very fiddly to fit where they screw in under the main display.
Quite pleased to have managed the job.
The new control came with four screws, so I had eight to play with.
Just as well, as I dropped two never to be seen again.
The little red oblong is a gasket which is about the thickness of a thread of cotton.
Fortunately, the existing gasket stayed in place - I doubt I could have managed to replace it.
The fixing under the main display doesn't get a lot of weather, maybe a bit of dust, so reusing the gasket shouldn't be a problem.
Tojo
Über Member
- Location
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Everything, I'll sort the flack out tomorrow as someone will point out that I've missed something.....
rowan 46
Über Member
- Location
- birmingham
put the sks longboards on my ride. Due to the unusual placement of the braze ons I had to attach to my rear rack and still the rear stays are only just long enough
Tom B
Guru
- Location
- Lancashire
Took the rear wheel from my commuter to the LBS for truing, collected a nice true wheel in exchange for a fiver. When collecting the LBS told me the bearings were a bit loose so were nipped up. That reminded me that they also sounded like a bag of gravel.
Got home and stripped out the bearings/axle discovering bad pitting on both the cone and cup on the non drive side. Having got to that stage decided to build to back up using a new axle bearings and cones, but in the full knowledge it wont last long. Also noted that at some point the bearing cap/cover on the hub has been chewed and bent.
Need to decide on a new wheel or a rebuild.
Oh and the tube of grease in the grease gun popped leaving me with red grease all over the kitchen table.
Got home and stripped out the bearings/axle discovering bad pitting on both the cone and cup on the non drive side. Having got to that stage decided to build to back up using a new axle bearings and cones, but in the full knowledge it wont last long. Also noted that at some point the bearing cap/cover on the hub has been chewed and bent.
Need to decide on a new wheel or a rebuild.
Oh and the tube of grease in the grease gun popped leaving me with red grease all over the kitchen table.
- Location
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
The usual clean after a very muddy commuting week.
As mentioned previously I'm very pleased with my home made mudflap but decided to do a little more experimentation so have made a longer version for the front which now practically touches the floor when stationary, a front facing flap to try and reduce the spray which blows back onto the headtube and one for the rear to see whether that is useful (the rear mudguard is a little shorter than I'd like).
On a test ride nothing rattles or catches so all good thus far.
As mentioned previously I'm very pleased with my home made mudflap but decided to do a little more experimentation so have made a longer version for the front which now practically touches the floor when stationary, a front facing flap to try and reduce the spray which blows back onto the headtube and one for the rear to see whether that is useful (the rear mudguard is a little shorter than I'd like).
On a test ride nothing rattles or catches so all good thus far.
Any pictures please.
- Location
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
I wasn't going to inflict pictures on everyone but since you've asked
:
They're a little rough & ready and may be replaced by improved versions later on if successful.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
I wasn't going to inflict pictures on everyone but since you've asked
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They're a little rough & ready and may be replaced by improved versions later on if successful.
Mudguards need to be that long to work.
Very few factory ones are - another victory of form over function.
A tip which took me too long to work out is to keep the pedals level going through puddles - less water gets on your feet.
- Location
- Glasgow
Spring cleaning!
Away with that cranks, out that bottom bracket, polish them chainring!
Tomorrow's commute will tell if the noise I was getting from my nether regions
Has gone.
Away with that cranks, out that bottom bracket, polish them chainring!
Tomorrow's commute will tell if the noise I was getting from my nether regions
Has gone.
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
