What Have You Fettled Today?
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Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
Today I'm stripping down a ladies Orbit Gold Medal for a good spruce up and generaly making shiny so that I can sell it for millions of pounds.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Installed a new shifter cable for the rear /rh side.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
added some zip ties to the new spd reflector equipped pedals on the fixed - just in case like
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
For strapping your feet in?
I went out for a pootle on my winter bike/commuter (a '90s Galaxy with a straight bar conversion) and discovered that the rear trigger shifter wouldn't take me down below the top three cogs. So I got around to replacing the horrible thing with a thumbshifter - much easier to set up than STI!
I also took the pointless and bodged mudguard thingies off the mountain bike I bought off a colleague (he'd used it for commuting) and attached a pump to the bottle cage bolts. So next time I'm caught out with a puncture I don't have to walk for the train...
Sheffield_Tiger
Guru
Fettled my shed with storage drawers and stacking boxes. Meaning now I have separate boxes for mechs, cranks, seatposts, stems etc instead of having to tip the lot out when I want a crank dustcap
mark c
Über Member
- Location
- Bridgwater Somerset
New brake blocks after 2200 odd miles on the old set 
Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
- Location
- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
Fitted a new spoke without removing the wheel or tyre, feel proud.
NormanD
Lunatic Asylum Escapee
- Location
- Heworth the other side of life!
Added light machine oil down the exposed inner cable cover (Gore ride on), one trickling drop at a time 
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
General clean 
and lube of the Secteur after a full week of commuting duty, fettled the front light bracket into a more stable position, swapped seatpost rack for a saddle bag for light commutes next week 
and lube of the Secteur after a full week of commuting duty, fettled the front light bracket into a more stable position, swapped seatpost rack for a saddle bag for light commutes next week 
Davidc
Guru
- Location
- Somerset UK
Had to wheel my town bike home from french conversation group this afternoon.
This evening looked and found glass had cut a nasty hole in the tyre and put a pinprick sized hole in the tube. BUT that wheel was from my wife's little used bike and had a Kenda kwest tyre on it, so decided it was time to do some tyre changing.
This evenings efforts: Take off 2 Kenda tyres, dump the damaged one in the wheeliebin, put the other aside as the spare 26".
Take the Marathons off my wheels and put them on my wife's wheels including one new tube.
Take 2 new Marathons out of their bag and put them on my wheels.
Put the wheels back on the bikes.
Mend the puncture in the other tube.
Put the repaired tube on the test rim with the now spare tyre.
Swear again at people who leave glass lying around on roads.
Pour a beer and write this - very therapeutic.
The Kenda tyres were bought as cheapies while we decided what to do about bike use and replacement. For 3 for £10 tyres they've done all-right, but I wouldn't recommend them. Too soft and very prone to getting small fragments of glass and grit embedded, also easily punctured.
This evening looked and found glass had cut a nasty hole in the tyre and put a pinprick sized hole in the tube. BUT that wheel was from my wife's little used bike and had a Kenda kwest tyre on it, so decided it was time to do some tyre changing.
This evenings efforts: Take off 2 Kenda tyres, dump the damaged one in the wheeliebin, put the other aside as the spare 26".
Take the Marathons off my wheels and put them on my wife's wheels including one new tube.
Take 2 new Marathons out of their bag and put them on my wheels.
Put the wheels back on the bikes.
Mend the puncture in the other tube.
Put the repaired tube on the test rim with the now spare tyre.
Swear again at people who leave glass lying around on roads.
Pour a beer and write this - very therapeutic.
The Kenda tyres were bought as cheapies while we decided what to do about bike use and replacement. For 3 for £10 tyres they've done all-right, but I wouldn't recommend them. Too soft and very prone to getting small fragments of glass and grit embedded, also easily punctured.
Sheffield_Tiger
Guru
Finished spraying up the few non-chromed handlebars and stems that I have from various old bikes.
Touched in some nasty scuffs on a couple of kids' bikes with that old fashioned trusty Humbrol enamel.
Rebuilt a kid's 20 inch bike replacing the horrible unbranded gripshift that needs the grip of Garth to shift gears (what fool spec'ed those on an 8 year old's bike, really?) with an old, simple TY20(?) thumbshifter, and the adult size brake levers with some Tektro units that a child might actually be able to reach and use.
Need some sun tomorrow to photograph these bikes, got a few to go on the 'bay
Touched in some nasty scuffs on a couple of kids' bikes with that old fashioned trusty Humbrol enamel.
Rebuilt a kid's 20 inch bike replacing the horrible unbranded gripshift that needs the grip of Garth to shift gears (what fool spec'ed those on an 8 year old's bike, really?) with an old, simple TY20(?) thumbshifter, and the adult size brake levers with some Tektro units that a child might actually be able to reach and use.
Need some sun tomorrow to photograph these bikes, got a few to go on the 'bay
