What Have You Fettled Today?

[youngoldbloke]

Removed the cranks from the 'new' winter bike, and cleaned them up. Cleaned up really well. Brakes also. Gave the frame a good clean too, now that almost everything is detached. New wheels on order, and seatpin acquired from 'bargain bin' at one of the LBSs - mint, good quality - £10.

 

[HovR]

New 5 speed freewheel with wider gear ratios for the Dawes arrived today. Simple job to take off the old one, and fit the new one.. or so I thought.

I went to take the old one out, bike on the repair stand, rear wheel out and get the freewheel remover tool out. Except the freewheel was one of the old European 2 pin ones, with the raised sockets which easily shear off, rendering your remover tool useless.. and they had.

So I got out the trusty hammer and a bit of pointy metal to remove the freewheel bearing cone, which took a bit of whacking, but it was freed eventually. Slid off the actual gears, only to do the old "hundreds of ball bearings all over the garage floor" trick, so I had to pick those up.

Now I'm left with just the pawl mechanism on the threaded hub, stuck on with 20 years of corrosion and pedaling loads. Stuck it in the vice and torqued on the wheel, until the pawl mechanism/freewheel body eventually came off the threaded hub.

After all that faff the new freewheel threaded on without issue. It's loud! Like the modern freehubs or BMX freewheels. Can't decide weather I like it or not, after being used to the near silent old one. Might open it up and apply some medium/light weight oil to the ratchet mechanism if it gets on my nerves.

 

[Dayvo]

Cracked the rim on the rear wheel of my hybrid recently and bought a new wheel yesterday.

Removed the old cassette and cleaned it in diesel: what a result! It came out like new. Too bad I didn't have time to do the front chainring, too.

Had a hell of a struggle removing the lock ring, but got there eventually with the aid of a steel pipe for extra leverage.

 

[potsy]

Re-fitted the panier rack ready for commuting duty, was enjoying the lighter feeling of not having it, but it is not really practical as it was.
Added CC sticker to new mudguards

 

[Scilly Suffolk]

Simplex Super LJ shifters fitted to the Pug; trimmed the brake outer cable which was slightly too long (forcing the calipers off centre) after fitting aero levers on Saturday.

New bottom bracket waiting to go in and brake calipers to source, then that's about all I want to do!

Unless I happen upon a 24mm seatpost, but that's another story...

 

[Psycolist]

After months of 'wondering' i took the plunge and fitted a shorter BB to my custom build today. OMG why didnt I do it months ago. Although the gear changes where working fine I always had to screw down the low movement so that it then created a really tight cable , even in the low position. I also thought the chain line was fine, until today. 2mm off the BB and everything just looks, sounds, and feels better, in fact, i'd say PERFIC.....

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Wey hey! New gear cables! I've been meaning to get round to it for months, what with the fraying cable ends.... Having a brand new cable cutter really makes a difference but I'm not sure whether I needed the (equally new) fourth-hand tool.

If I sold it, it would be a second-hand fourth-hand tool, and I don't even know what happened to the third-hand tool in the first place.

 

[HLaB]

The saddle on my SS was at an extreme angle and now I'm home I decided to adjust it with a proper allen key and see if that is any better at holding it in the correct place.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

After hitting a foreign object at speed, as described elsewhere, I have just had the dubious pleasure of replacing the broken spokes.

There were two spokes broken in the incident and as I'd had to ride about 14 miles on the damaged wheel a further two failed while removing the freewheel and retensioning the wheel. (Not counting one of the "new" ones which also broke during tensioning ).

I now have a wheel that runs true again and think I deserve a beer.

 

[Melonfish]

Had a damned good clean of the bike today, then i re-adjusted my brakes, re-fitted my comp mount because it needed a shim.
then i fitted my fathers day prezzie, a charge spoon.
some re-adjustments later and its fine, also shifted my handlebars forward a bit, get myself a better position on the bike.
pete

 

[potsy]

Put a Durano+ on the rear of the CX commuter, re-fitted rack ready for commuting duties on Monday night.
First puncture on the Krylions yesterday, piece of glass which has left quite a gash/hole in the centre tread, have glued it for now but will save it for when the Secteur is running again.

 

[gbb]

Took the sons MTB to work, Vbrakes were sticking (its left outside, all weathers) so release cables, introduce some teflon oil, clean, remove brake arms and lube bosses, All working better now.
Would have done more, but too busy working...hurumphh .

Oiled the chain, checked the hubs for play, gave the remainder of the bike a once over. It'll do for now.

 

[subaqua]

re indexed gears on the MTBcommuter. oh and fitted a bell with a compass to replace the non working bell . it was a fathers day pressie OK

 

[smokeysmoo]

New saddle on the CAAD, no time to try it out today so former saddle still in the wings, just in case.

 

[Mark Grant]

I assisted my mate to fit a new crankshaft oil seal to my VW T4 van. A garage had supposedly done it about 18 months ago when it belonged to my employers but they either lied or were pants at fitting seals!! A couple of hours to fit a £3.50 seal, but as mates rates = zero it wasn't too bad.
Also stuck the stickers on this

See here http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/latest-project.104329/