What Have You Fettled Today?

[Rickshaw Phil]

A friend brought his brother's bike over for me to fix a "shredded" gear cable this morning. I first got asked about this in the depths of winter and said "Yes, not problem" but didn't hear anything about it again until now.

When C said shredded, he meant shredded. I can only presume it had snagged on something during a ride.

Fortunately it was an easy fix by changing inner and outer cables. The derailleur appeared as though it had never been set up right from new so that has been done and it's had a checkover.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

A friend brought his brother's bike over for me to fix a "shredded" gear cable this morning. I first got asked about this in the depths of winter and said "Yes, not problem" but didn't hear anything about it again until now.

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When C said shredded, he meant shredded. I can only presume it had snagged on something during a ride.

Fortunately it was an easy fix by changing inner and outer cables. The derailleur appeared as though it had never been set up right from new so that has been done and it's had a checkover.

Wow! That’s definitely had it.

 

[Reynard]

Tweaked the position of the cleat on my left shoe as my foot was pointing inwards too much.

That's a lot better.

 

[C R]

Replaced the power supply board of our TV, which failed just two months out of warranty. Took some searching, but Mrs CR located one in the Netherlands.

Sorted for about 70 squids, and one less device needlessly thrown away.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The right hand nut , washers , the lot had come off the front wheel of my Brompton at some point. So have fitted a new nut and washers etc. today. Been down some rough roads of late so guess it all vibrated off at some point.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

View attachment 475249 Flipped the stem on my Croix de Fer self-build. Much better!

My what a big cassette you have :-)

 

[Zeffer]

My what a big cassette you have :-)

Yes, will be used for touring so making sure I can spin up the hills with panniers etc.!

 

[Hicky]

New tyres, bar end plugs and MTB grips delivered to home, my handbuilts were re trued but I won't be able to sort everything back on the van nic for another day or so...arrgrh.

 

[ianrauk]

New tyres, bar end plugs and MTB grips delivered to home, my handbuilts were re trued but I won't be able to sort everything back on the van nic for another day or so...arrgrh.

That reminds me.
I must replace a lost bar end. Been missing now for a few weeks.

 

[si_c]

Bit of a creak on the Felt commuter, so greased the seatpost last night and went out for a 25mile spin in the dark no real issues - everything seemed fine.

Commuting in to work this morning, and about a half mile in, a horrible noise started like everything that could possibly be creaking was, so I pulled over and had a look. The seat-tube/top-tube weld has totally failed, there's a crack about 75% of the way around the joint so the frame is totally dead.

I've emailed Felt as it's only 3 months outside the 2 year warranty period, but I'm not hopeful, so it looks like new frame time.

 

[Vantage]

I reeeeaaallly can't do a 'like' for that. ^^^


Did a bit of filing on the mudguard stays as there was an annoying squeaky rattle the other day...I'm sure the stays are rubbing the guards...at least on the front one.
Polished a newly bought alloy chainstay protector and stuck it on. The old one wasn't done properly in the first place.
Fitted new brake blocks.

 

[Salty seadog]

That reminds me.
I must replace a lost bar end. Been missing now for a few weeks.

Bar end or bar end plug? I't would be a bit distracting riding with a single bar end.

 

[Mart44]

I spent the afternoon giving this bike a going over. It has been sat in the shed for ages, covered in cobwebs and in generally neglected. It needed a new front inner tube, generally lubricating, the gears sorting out and a good clean. It's had a short road test but I'll take it for a proper ride in the next day or two.

 

[ianrauk]

Bar end or bar end plug? I't would be a bit distracting riding with a single bar end.

Plug

 

[HLaB]

I don't know if it's a bodge or a fettle. I had been intending to put a new cassette on the Triban 500 and had bought it yesterday. Tonight I snapped a spoke. So I took apart a wheel that had a similar spoke and used that. As it was a drive side spoke the cassette was conveniently off too and the new one went on.