What Have You Fettled Today?

[I like Skol]

Washed another bike today! Brand new, but apparently @dan_bo thought it looked dirty! All shiny and bright now

 

[dan_bo]

Washed another bike today! Brand new, but apparently @dan_bo thought it looked dirty! All shiny and bright now

Bet it took you all of oooooh 87 seconds

 

[Vantage]

Trimmed, cleaned and fitted the kickstand.
Trimmed the front mudguard as it was too long at the back.
Fitted the derailleurs.
Fitted the rear light on the rear mudguard (that way the rack can come and go without rewiring all the time).
The replacement 1.5" City Jet tyres arrived. I ordered tan/gumwall versions as I'm going for the classic look on the bike...They sent me blackwalls. Tossers. Meh.

 

[HLaB]

I finally got round to fitting that new front brake tonight. I'm leaving its black arm protector on for now as I may re-cable/tape the bike and fit 50/34 chain rings if I have time on Bank Holiday Monday.

 

[bpsmith]

Fitted the Fizik stem and carbon bars this afternoon. Used fresh tape too. No prizes for the brand.

There’s something very satisfying about taping bars. I spend ages doing it, but enjoy every minute getting it just right.

Sad, I know, but the journey is the destination!

 

[Salty seadog]

Let a tiny dribble of hydraulic oil out of the rear brake system to enable proper piston clearance after last week's oil change on the Montpellier.

 

[Vantage]

My wheels and cable stops arrived today!
Had a few issues getting the derailleurs to cooperate but I think I'm nearly there. The front downshift from big to middle requires a bit too much force for my liking. Stop screw and cable tension adjustment needed.
Put the cassette and chain on, trimmed the cables and put air in the tyres...I decided I need smaller tubes as the ones supplied are a little on the chunky side. I think the rear now has a pinch hole as a result.


Time for a test ride..........

 

[Biker Joe]

Fitted the Fizik stem and carbon bars this afternoon. Used fresh tape too. No prizes for the brand.

There’s something very satisfying about taping bars. I spend ages doing it, but enjoy every minute getting it just right.

Sad, I know, but the journey is the destination!

It was "Sellotape", right?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Fettling fail this afternoon, defeated by a shimano click R spd pedal. A little bit of play in the left pedal on my Eastway, brought the tool, two and a half quid from Halfords, looked at several online video's, and thought that wont take long, set to work and found I couldn't get it apart,

Got this sorted Wednesday night, it took my big adjustable and my big persuader to get in, it wasn't in bad shape, still had some grease in it, just a bit of free play. I stripped it, regreased it and reassembled it. On my ride Thursday most of the creak had gone, I think what's left is cleats. Friday afternoon I tweaked the front changer, I put a 48 tooth outer ring on a few weeks ago and ran into a problem with the chain dropping between the rings on the down change, I thought I'd cured it by tweaking the cable tension but it came back, so I went over the changer setup and checked everything was right with it, I'll see if it's cured it on my next ride, though it seemed good whilst working on it.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Moved my Garmin mount from handlebars to stem as it was about half a degree out of true, relative to the top tube, on the handlebars.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Fitted the Fizik stem and carbon bars this afternoon. Used fresh tape too. No prizes for the brand.

There’s something very satisfying about taping bars. I spend ages doing it, but enjoy every minute getting it just right.

Sad, I know, but the journey is the destination!

Symmetry is everything.

 

[mikeymustard]

It was "Sellotape", right?

dont be silly - way too weak. Duck tape?

 

[bpsmith]

Isn’t that Duct Tape?

 

[Alan O]

Isn’t that Duct Tape?

Not necessarily...

 

[youngoldbloke]

Isn’t that Duct Tape?

- either / or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape