What Have You Fettled Today?

[Ming the Merciless]

Fettled a rose bush and another plant. No longer (or at least for a while) will we be attacked when walking down the path in the rear garden.

 

[JhnBssll]

USB lead arrived today so I got to try it out - pleased to say it's fully functional and I managed to increase the charge of my GPS unit by 2% in ~5 miles I don't fancy trying to charge it from empty at that rate but its perfect for what I'll be using it for

 

[fossyant]

Dry ride on the MTB, so all the mud was scraped off the MTB tyres. Made doubly sure they were clean as sneaking it into the office tomorrow, and up 4 floors. Can't leave a trail of mud or the cleaners will kill me. Off out with colleagues on the bike in the afternoon.

 

[I like Skol]

Dry ride on the MTB, so all the mud was scraped off the MTB tyres. Made doubly sure they were clean as sneaking it into the office tomorrow, and up 4 floors. Can't leave a trail of mud or the cleaners will kill me. Off out with colleagues on the bike in the afternoon.

Can I come?

 

[I like Skol]

Nipped up the pad clearance on the TRP Spyres fitted to my commuter bike a few days ago then carried on commuting as usual. The very next day I heard an annoying scraping, rubbing type sound when riding to work. 1st thought was that I had set the brake pads too close to the rotor, but a gentle squeeze of the brakes and the noise continued. The noise also stopped when I stopped pedalling. I was busy working 12hr nightshifts so just turned up the volume on my ipod and ignored the noise until today, my 1st day off.
Riding home this morning I popped off the headphones to listen and it was pretty bad.

I managed to open up the hub using no tools as the Kona hub assembly just pulled apart by hand. The only tools I would need are to drifts to knock out the replaceable sealed bearings when the time comes..

I think I found the problem.....

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Not particularly impressive on a wheel that has only done 1800 miles from new and not been washed. At least now I know it is clean and greased. Also a fair bit quieter which is no bad thing.

Just popped out on this bike to run a few errands. Freehub now working quietly, well still noisier than my Shimano hubs but better than it ever was before and the creaking/rubbing noise under load has stopped completely. I can turn the ipod volume down now......

 

[fossyant]

Can I come?

2pm Skills Zone at Velodrome - only 5 of us out of the umpteen thousand.

 

[I like Skol]

Shame, I can't make that

 

[fossyant]

Shame, I can't make that

Argh - will be mucking about on Clayton Vale for a couple of hours - don't know any of them.

 

[TheDoctor]

This was actually fettled yesterday.
Wall after someone hit it

Wall after an hour of determined leverage.

I'm going to re-mortar it all sometime, or I could just inject a few tubes of No More Nails.

 

[tom73]

Just made Mrs some flapjack to take to her class tonight

 

[CXRAndy]

Wired my USA vehicle trailer cable to UK 7 pin/ 13 pin compatible

 

[TheDoctor]

And fettlage that will take place soon...
N+1

 

[Tenkaykev]

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New chain guard and chain

 

[Paulus]

Cleaned and re greased the front and rear wheel bearings on a pair of old 27 inch wheels. They did sound a bit gritty and rumbly. Now running smoothly again.

 

[Drago]

Slight tweak to the spokes on the rear wheel of the Felt. Fulcrums turning out not to be all that.