What Have You Fettled Today?

[JhnBssll]

Went out for a ride,
FinisheD the ride,
put the bike on the roof...
Went under a height restriction barrier, Removed the bike,
Swore
Removed the bike from the road.
Swore.
Removed the bottom of the tube Pringle from between the front forks.
Swore.
Saw damage to fork.. Swore.
Came home...
Put tyre on spare (bit actually newly refurbished preferred wheel)
Was amazed wheel actually still fitted between forks...
Looked at ding in fork
Swore.
Fell over dog...
Swore
Noticed rear axle or QR appeared bent (eccentric motion when tightening QR)
Remembered that might nit be new and wondered why my wheels had QR skewers in and not my security type.
Put bike away.
Swore.
Made tea...
Had a bath and Put lad to bed
Came down stairs posted to cycle chat about dings in alu on the maintainance section.
Dog look at me, sat up middle of living room and did a dump on the carpet
Swore...

Fml as I believe the kids say

**There may have been more swearing / swearing edited for brevity.

Sounds like your day has been suboptimal Hope the damage isnt too severe

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Fitted forks, steerer, bars and seat and wheels to a new recumbent frame.

 

[Tom B]

Sounds like your day has been suboptimal Hope the damage isnt too severe

The carpet will be fine, less sure about the bike or dog!

 

[biggs682]

Replaced a rear spoke

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Stripped, greased and adjusted the hubs on two new rear wheels for the knockabout bike. It's a precaution I take on new cheap wheels and I'm glad I did as although there was lots of grease splurged into the hubs, almost none of it was actually on the bearings.

Just need to get tyres swapped round and once again I have a choice of wheelsets ready for whatever the winter brings.

 

[si_c]

Adjusted the compression bung in the headset - I hadn't tightened it up enough and it had pulled out a little meaning that the headset was slightly -and annoyingly - loose.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Fitted new chain to my Zwift bike as I broke the chain a couple of days ago 💪

All sorted and the bike pedals smoothly (or at least my feet do...).

 

[jongooligan]

Replaced the commuter tyres on a Ridley X Bow I recently bought with some cyclo cross tyres. Put a turbo specific tyre on my Ridley Triton and did a short but intense session on the turbo trainer.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Got the Bianchi assembled, only to find I have a pull to the left when riding. So I'll have to check the fork and headset Wednesday. This bike had been single speeded, then I now think it was in an accident before being given to the co-op. I think, at worst, that it may require a swap out of fork and headset. And it seems like a lot of mid-1980's Bianchis have newer forks.

Found, other than the clothes washer is kaput, that the Bianchi has one fork more angled than the other, quelle surprise, so I am going to the co-op to see if they have what I need, as my own stock does not appear to have an acceptable substitute. Then I can straighten the Bianchi fork at leisure. The washing machine was actually easier to replace. I walked into Home Depot, found a clothes washer, and told the salesman I wanted it delivered at the earliest possible convenience, paid and walked out, 7 minutes. I had already shopped online, as Mrs. GA had given me her requirements. So I fettled six loads of laundry simultaneously at the laundromat near where I work this afternoon, because it's the nicest laundromat in town.

 

[tom73]

Quick fine tune of the zwift set up every thing running nicely. Some how the 5 mins test ride ended with a bit of sweat on over an hour later

 

[Andy in Germany]

Noticed that after a week of bombing 200m downhill every day my brakes were a tiny bit soggy, enough to annoy me at any rate.

Tightened them up. It took six minutes.

I do like V-Brakes.

 

[Tom B]

So I fettled six loads of laundry simultaneously at the laundromat near where I work this afternoon, because it's the nicest laundromat in town.

When was young, so much younger I used to take my washing to the laundrette initially because it was easier than listening to my mother going on with herself. Then because the girl who worked there in the evenings was worth watching and made a decent brew.

Because my washing was 90% work uniform I even got the cost back from petty cash. I guess that's the benefit of being in charge of the petty cash.

Now I still enjoy the occasional luxury of a service wash, just the attendant is now more of a Dot Cotton type.

Slightly more back on topic,

Wee-ride kiddie seat fettled to FS MTB for emergency commuting use. It's a Pita to keep putting on and off twice a day.

 

[DCBassman]

Fettling laptops. Recently rescued an aging but perfectly serviceable Dell laptop from the dump. Have finally figured out how to get Win 10 on it, and it will become my backup machine.
Also an Asus to revive for a friend. Then put the good bits from my previous backup into the Dell, primarily a Solid State Drive.

 

[Elybazza61]

Yesterday was spent (inbetween serving customers of course) fitting the Hope calipers and connecting and routing hoses.

 

[voyager]

Been making a pair of mudguards for the trike . Cheaper ( much ) than ICE.