What Have You Fettled Today?

[Accy cyclist]

Well i'll either be fettling another puncture today or leaving it to my local bike shop. I had a look at my bike last night then i saw the dreaded flat! It's a rear one so i might as well take it in, they'll fit a new tube for a fiver, so £1.50 for their labour is worth it to avoiding all that fiddling.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Ribble refurb completed yesterday afternoon. Everything refitted, greased, lubed. All bolts tightened. Spare saddle fitted, also Keos on loan from 'old' winter bike. Temporary bottle cages and longer stem fitted (both post photo). Test ride great - quiet, smooth, and free running - just like a new bike . Soon got used to the Tiagra shifters - my 'summer' Ribble 7005SL is all Campag, and the 'old' Peugeot has downtube shifters. Will swap the saddle later, fit new bottle cages and a new 12-27 or 28 cassette, to replace the existing 12-25.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Took my jockey wheels to bits and cleaned / relubed and put them back on, things a bit smoother now.

 

[youngoldbloke]

After about 30 miles 'running in' rides on the 'new' bike this week, exchanged saddles with the 'old' one and checked the set up. Adjusted position to match the measurements of my other bike (same saddle) - centre of bottom bracket to top of saddle, nose of saddle to c/l of stem / to c/l of bars / to hoods. Checked saddle was level, and marked KOPS position on top tube for reference. Tweaked mudguard clearance and checked all bolts for tightness.

 

[potsy]

Wiped the worst of the commuting grime off the Secteur ready for a 60 miler tomorrow, Mickled the chain and cleaned the rims.
Gave the pedals a blast of squirty oil in an attempt to quieten the creaking and groaning they are doing, maybe they are fubarred, we'll see.

 

[ColinJ]

Friends are in town for the weekend (I'm off to the pub to meet them shortly!) and we will be riding our MTBs tomorrow. Given that I hadn't ridden mine since last summer's get-together, I thought I'd check it over ...

It turned out that the bearings in the rear hub had seized so I replaced them - probably the hardest job I've done on a bike so far. Online videos said "First, remove the endcap spacers. Second ..."

What they didn't say was that if those spacers have not been removed in 11 years, they can be a pig to get off! I stabbed my finger with a screwdriver trying to lever one off. I tried everything I could think of until I finally had a brainwave ... cone spanners! Being thin, I could get one in from the left and one from the right and get some well-balanced leverage which soon had the spacers popping off.

I discovered that a 19 mm socket made an ideal tool for 'drifting' the new bearings in.

I was 'a-pawl-ed' to discover how fiddly it was getting the freehub back on without springs and pawls flying off and hiding under my fridge. Once I'd finally done it, I turned round with a smug grin on my face, only to discover a spacer that I should have fitted first staring back at me! Oh, b*ll*cks! More faffing about ...

Eventually, I got the job done and I now have a lovely, smooth-running wheel!

I also cleaned the cassette, rings, chain and jockey wheels. The transmission looks a bit the worse for wear so everything will need to be replaced soon. I've just been through the same process on my Basso and won't make the mistake of replacing parts one at a time again when they are as worn as this. Hopefully it will get me through tomorrow's ride okay - I didn't have time to test ride it.

I checked the brake pads and saw that the rear pads were almost worn out. Not worth trying to squeeze another ride out of them so I replaced those too.

Anyway - I'm off to have a drink and then go to watch The Damned who are playing at Hebden Bridge Trades Club tonight - yay!

 

[derrick]

Fitted thinner slicks to the commuter, looking forward to riding to work in the morning.

 

[HLaB]

When cleaning the bike last night I noticed one of the upper jockey wheel's teeth was missing so I swapped in one from an old derailleur. Today was just an unlucky road side fettle At least the tour is on

 

[Kiwiavenger]

Last night was spent fitting a new chain and cassette, the 105 brakes and trying to replace my missing spoke! Spoke was too short so will get a bigger one and refit tonight!

Also the wife has agreed for me to cycle more in preperation for me to move further from my work!!! I see some serious climbing coming on so may be building some new, lighter wheels cause the alexrims dont cut it!

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[defy-one]

Last night was a clean with baby wipes after my tour de france (for me) of 32 miles.
I must say the bike came up like new

 

[HovR]

Wiped down and lubricated the chain on the MTB and road bike.

Decided that I wasn't quite happy with the rear gear shifting on the MTB, so adjusted the indexing.. Still not right.

So I slackened the cable off and inspected the cable under the outers, to reveal some light corrosion and crap buildup. Quick lubrication of the cables (with Finish Line Dry) and reindexing and shifting is far improved.

 

[PoweredByVeg]

Started totally stripping down No.1 bike after a very wet and dirty Audax yesterday. Still no mudguards doh!!

 

[smokeysmoo]

Fit Swisstop Flash Pro pad inserts to the CAAD, washed it, dried it, polished it, lubed it.

Sadly no time to ride it this weekend unless I can squeeze a few miles in tomorrow after Parkrun.

I'm marshalling on the run course for the Bolton Ironman on Sunday, so I won't have time to get a ride in then sadly.

[EDIT] removed guards from the Ribble, I'm going to use it today to ride to the Ironman course.

 

[defy-one]

Final adjustments to the hybrid before my epic commute into London and back tommorow. (24 miles each way)

 

[Biglad82]

2 mugs of tea and 3 bacon cobs during my unboxing and building of the new steed (carrera subway)