What Have You Fettled Today?

[Gary E]

Cleaned my bike and got it ready for a ride, looked out of the window and the weather was grotty.
So I cleaned my other bike, looked out of the window again and it was worse.
So I went to the gym instead Fortunately the weather in the gym was fine

 

[HovR]

I tightened the cranks on the BSO folder.

From your last few posts in here, I'm getting the idea that these have a tendency of coming off?

 

[HLaB]

From your last few posts in here, I'm getting the idea that these have a tendency of coming off?

You are not far wrong there

 

[HovR]

You are not far wrong there

I'd thought about getting a cheap folder just for the odd train ride with 5 or so miles cycling at either end - I guess I'll reconsider! I've looked at getting my full sized bikes aboard trains, but it seems like so much hassle - especially with 3 different trains over 3 different train companies in one trip!

 

[HLaB]

I'd thought about getting a cheap folder just for the odd train ride with 5 or so miles cycling at either end - I guess I'll reconsider! I've looked at getting my full sized bikes aboard trains, but it seems like so much hassle - especially with 3 different trains over 3 different train companies in one trip!

I guess its how much you consider cheap is, this was a very cheap one (IIRC it was £78 +vat from Macro), I guess any cheap bike, no matter the size/type will have crank problems. Spend a bit more and you should be OK, it certainly is convenient (when the crank is not falling off) and not too bad a folding mechanism either.

 

[potsy]

I guess its how much you consider cheap is, this was a very cheap one (IIRC it was £78 +vat from Macro), I guess any cheap bike, no matter the size/type will have crank problems. Spend a bit more and you should be OK, it certainly is convenient (when the crank is not falling off) and not too bad a folding mechanism either.

Bargain Self extracting cranks too

 

[guitarpete247]

Not today but last Thursday, fitted new Tektro calipers. Front wheel needed a little truing to get the gap down to 1mm each side. Rear pretty good, trued up a couple of months ago and it's still going straight. Calipers, and levers I fitted a few months back replace some C-Stars that have been on the bike for nearly 30 years. There's a fantastic difference in braking. Brakes now stops me when I want me when I want to stop .

 

[Cubist]

Today I fitted my new saddle, cleaned all the grit out of the seatclamp bolt and QR. Someone on another forum asked a question abut Hope Pro 2 hub spacers, so I took Cubester's front hub apart to illustrate, and discovered the bearings were dryish. I have never greased a sealed cartridge bearing before, but used a sewing pick to remove the seal, reasoning that if it doesn't go back together properly I won't have wasted anything, and duly flushed and greased the bearing race inside. The seal went on beautifully easily so I repeated it on the other side. Sorted! .

 

[rvw]

Fitted new saddle to my bike - in the hopes that this will turn out to be the comfortable one I have been searching for! Next stop, trying to find the perfect (female) shorts for the other half of the equation. Any suggestions/recommendations very gladly received!

 

[Jonathing]

I spent the weekend entirely stripping down my fixed and rebuilding it as a track-bars, front brake only 'fixie'. Except one chainring bolt was seized so I had to abandon the entirely gold drivetrain idea and stick with the 42t that was on there giving a slightly more spinny gear than I would have liked.

 

[DCLane]

I've got the Secteur set up for the Way of the Roses ride on Fri/Sun, including fitting new brakes which match the bike (Clarks CPS240)

I'm doing it on the Fulcrum 5 wheels with GP4000S 23mm tyres. Should be ... interesting. However, I'm tight for time on the Sunday so it's roads, not paths and speed, not scenery.

 

[HovR]

Whilst being stored for 20+ years before I acquired it, the friction shifters on my Dawes had plenty of time to corrode (strangely, the only serious bit of corrosion on the bike) which led to jumpy, imprecise, shifting.

Finding myself with some spare time today, I thought I'd fix this. So I took apart the friction shifters, and got sanding. Numerous hours and a lot of sand paper later, they're looking brand new(ish)!

Applied grease and reassembled, and now shifting is far smoother! Success!

Oh, and who knew that underneath all that rust there was actually Hurret branding and a decorative pattern.

 

[gbb]

Fettled me a dogfang onto the carbon...remembering someone here who had the chain drop onto the BB, gouging the hell out of the carbon.
Also took off the (comparatively) expensive Veloce MPS chainrings and fitted some UD chainrings instead. The idea is to save the expensive ones and refit them if i sell it in the future. Less that £20 for both ( original and new ) Campag UD chainrings off ebay...bargain.

So i stand back and look at my recent fettling on the new(ish) Ribble carbon...it was so light, so uncluttered. Ive fettled a bottle cage, computer, dogfang, saddlebag and rear light onto it. It looks cluttered aleady

 

[HovR]

So i stand back and look at my recent fettling on the new(ish) Ribble carbon...it was so light, so uncluttered. Ive fettled a bottle cage, computer, dogfang, saddlebag and rear light onto it. It looks cluttered aleady

Unfortunately that happens.

In an effort to combat it, and with the lighter evenings, I have taken the bracket off my handle bars for my XML-T6 light, and put my backup Cateye light in the saddle bag, ready to be fitted if I get caught out in the dark. Looks a bit better.

 

[Boris Bajic]

New front gear cable (Campag Ergo). The old one was fraying and I pierced a finger several times getting it out.

My oil-smudged whit e bar tape is now oil-smudged with pink smears over the top.

Some advice please from experts: With a new inner, I usually just put some lube along the crack on a cupped palm and run the cable through it along the whole of its length. It doesn't seem very grown-up, but it seems to work.

What is the grown-up way of putting a bit of the slippy on a new cable before putting it into its outer?