What Have You Fettled Today?

[Jenkins]

Clipped the Raceblade Longs on to the Ventus
Thursday's planned fettling is to take them off
Friday's planed fettling is to put them back on again.
Don't you just love the current weather when commuting!

 

[Reynard]

Clipped the Raceblade Longs on to the Ventus
Thursday's planned fettling is to take them off
Friday's planed fettling is to put them back on again.
Don't you just love the current weather when commuting!

You might want to be fitting sails on Friday as well... They're talking of wind gusting over 40 mph...

 

[Jenkins]

You might want to be fitting sails on Friday as well... They're talking of wind gusting over 40 mph...

And from the South to South East as well which could help for parts of the return leg in the evening - although adding a keel would probably add to stability as well with the predicted heavy rain.

 

[Reynard]

And from the South to South East as well which could help for parts of the return leg in the evening - although adding a keel would probably add to stability as well with the predicted heavy rain.

I can't but help thinking of James May's Triumph Herald...

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I inserted screws into the screw holes of my road bike's brake shoes. I hadn't bothered doing this the last time I replaced the pads, but then I noticed that some of the pads moved freely within the brake shoes, so I thought I'd better put the screws in. About half an hour later, I was ready to start throwing things around, I was that angry. It seems that not all brake shoes take exactly the same size screw (or as far as I can tell, anyway). I found some screws from a set of new brake pads, and they went it fairly easily. So what should have been a 5 minute fettling turned into an epic.

 

[Tom B]

Fixed the fourth puncture of the month.

Used the jetvalve co2 inflator for the first time in anger. Impressed well worth carrying.

 

[nickAKA]

After ordering the X long brackets for a topeak pannier rack for SWMBOs bike, and discovering the still weren't long enough, I ordered the XX long ones and picked them up yesterday... Good grief they're ugly, but at least the rack is now 'right'. Checked with a spirit level. I can finally sleep soundly at night.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Clipped the Raceblade Longs on to the Ventus
Thursday's planned fettling is to take them off
Friday's planed fettling is to put them back on again.
Don't you just love the current weather when commuting!

I'd just leave them on.

 

[DCBassman]

New cassette fitted to new wheel. About all that's doable in the monsoon...

 

[Reynard]

After ordering the X long brackets for a topeak pannier rack for SWMBOs bike, and discovering the still weren't long enough, I ordered the XX long ones and picked them up yesterday... Good grief they're ugly, but at least the rack is now 'right'. Checked with a spirit level. I can finally sleep soundly at night.

Ooh, I didn't know such things existed...

Might be just the thing to level the jaunty rack angle on my Chartres - the perils of a full sized rack on a shrunk-in-a-boil-wash sized frame...

 

[Jenkins]

Clipped the Raceblade Longs on to the Ventus
Thursday's planned fettling is to take them off
Friday's planed fettling is to put them back on again.
Don't you just love the current weather when commuting!

I'd just leave them on.

Can't do that, it's all about the aerodynamics which is of the utmost importance on the commute

Besides, they rattle a bit due to old fixings and that annoys me!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Can't do that, it's all about the aerodynamics which is of the utmost importance on the commute

Besides, they rattle a bit due to old fixings and that annoys me!

I don't take mine off, when I commuted, which I did for over thirty years, I did it with mudguards. If they're rattling then they need fettling.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Can't do that, it's all about the aerodynamics which is of the utmost importance on the commute

Besides, they rattle a bit due to old fixings and that annoys me!

You need a second bike for commuting, that way you can have one with the mudguards permanently on.

 

[Tom B]

I'd just leave them on.

I intended taking mine on and off when.i bought them in 2013....

They went on... And have yet to come off.

 

[Jenkins]

You need a second bike for commuting, that way you can have one with the mudguards permanently on.

Actually, I have another 7 bikes I could use for commuting - one with mudguards permanently fited (the Spa Elan which I ended up using today) and one flat bar, one hybrid, a 29er MTB & 1 road bike (the Ventus) with clip on guards of various designs.