What Have You Fettled Today?

[subaqua]

Mcdonalds or Campbells soup

finally fitted the chain i bought on Saturday for the MTB and have sorted the front mech issue. helps if the wire runs where it shoul not where i think it should . lovely sweet changes .

then i decided to have a tweak of the road bike ( Btwin sport 1) set the Front mech up properly after i removed it a few weeks ago to clean the crud from around it properly and it too now runs like a dream . wifey says its tea time soon so can't start on fettling and cleaning daughters bike , although initial inspection leads me to beleive i am going to need new cables as she seems to have mullered the ends on them.

and still it jumps- closer inspection of the cvassete shows a few raised burrs on the leading edge /face of the teeth. new cassette time .

 

[HovR]

Took the cranks off the Dawes today to measure the axle length as I'm in the process of looking for new cranks. Noticed that the loose bearing BB had become way too tight, as the lock ring had come loose.

Hadn't serviced it in 1100 miles, so I took it apart to inspect the bearing surfaces and check the grease. All was well, plenty of grease, but still I cleaned it off and put in new - Just for good measure.

Reassembled BB, and now the mysterious clicking/creaking noise I have been driven insane by for the last 200 miles when pedaling hard has gone!

 

[Erudin]

Hammered the bearings out of the american bottom bracket cups on my BMiX singlespeed bike that gets left out in all weathers whilst at work. The axle was seized to one of the bearings after 5 years of neglect, made use of a metal drain cover in the road to hammer it out, ordered replacement 6204 bearings from ebay for £3.20.

 

[defy-one]

New specialized bodygeometry lock on grips and water holder/bottle

 

[gbb]

Hammered the bearings out of the american bottom bracket cups on my BMiX singlespeed bike that gets left out in all weathers whilst at work. The axle was seized to one of the bearings after 5 years of neglect, made use of a metal drain cover in the road to hammer it out, ordered replacement 6204 bearings from ebay for £3.20.

Nowt wrong with them
Semi seriously....in a work environment, ive had similar bearings to replace with similar damage, but no immediate replacements available. Needs must, clean out old grease/gunk with WD40, blow out with an airline, repack with grease then work at them to free them up and get them running as smoothly as they'll allow. Ive had conveyor rollers run for years with refurbed bearings like that.

 

[gbb]

For me today, retaped the Bianchi handlebars with celeste tape. Done a reasonably good job, not as good as the original tape, but more than acceptable.

 

[subaqua]

cassette arrived from CRC via wifey visit to delivery office . fitted cassette, reindexed gears to be sure , a spot of lube on the new chain thats had a weeks worth of jumping and crud . bike rides like new again.

 

[derrick]

Fixed a puncture, fitted new cassette to my spare wheel.

 

[BrazingSaddles]

Got to know the workings of a BMX after fixing a rear wheel for a kid!

 

[HovR]

Hammered the bearings out of the american bottom bracket cups on my BMiX singlespeed bike that gets left out in all weathers whilst at work. The axle was seized to one of the bearings after 5 years of neglect, made use of a metal drain cover in the road to hammer it out, ordered replacement 6204 bearings from ebay for £3.20.

Fixed a garden tractor about a month ago with front wheel bearings far worse than that. The tractor was 30+ years old, and had been sitting for 6+ years in the elements.

The bearings wouldn't spin at all, and the wheel hub was spinning on the top surface of the bearings (the one that's supposed to rotate on the ball bearings). A whole lot of WD40, brake cleaner fluid, penetrating oils/rust remover later with a decent helping of brute force and the bearings were free. Repacked with grease and they're now running fine!

Looks like you still have a good few years left in those!

Then again, with the tractor maxing out at about 8mph, performance bearings are hardly needed.

 

[HovR]

Gear shifting on my Dawes was starting to get clunky and slow, so I thought I'd take the cables off and examine them.

The front mech cable was in a terrible state - The outer was full of road dirt and rust. Ran some GT85 through it, which came out the other end orange - Then repeatedly ran the inner cable through it to dislodge the dirt, then repeated the process until it was clean. After that I ran a thicker oil through the cable for lubrication.

Repeated for the rear mech cable, although it wasn't in such a state.

Shifting is now silky smooth! Could have just gone and bought new cables, but where's the fun in that?

 

[potsy]

General fettle and clean of the CX commuter, replaced broken light bracket on rear rack after it objected to the bike toppling sideways onto the floor the other day
Checked chain for wear, close to needing changing after nearly 1500 miles, will do that next weekend.

 

[smokeysmoo]

New wheels and cassette fitted to CAAD, fettled gears, tweaked seatpost and headed out. Bike's riding like a dream again now

Got back and glued cuts in tyres with THIS, (I'll see how it holds up tomorrow) I really do like Schwalbe tyres, but do they have to be such a soft compound?

 

[Francesca]

1st phase fettle today, stripping the Planet X bike down to its frame. Tomorrow it gets new cranks, bottom bracket bearings, chain, jockey wheels, cassette, wheel hub bearings, tyres and brake blocks.

Adrian what is fettle? new to all this lingo..

 

[colly]

I have fettled................some ply flooring in the bathroom in readiness for new tiles. (nothing bike related but there you are)