What Have You Fettled Today?

[keithmac]

Bit of an odd day today..

Finished off a service plus chain and sprockets replacement on an early Blade, all went to plan.

Next up was a Yamaha twin that wouldn't run, spent a couple of hours sorting the carbs (think this is the worst out of balance set of carbs I've ever seen!).

Next up was a Panigale with intermittent engine management fault, traced it in the end after a lot of grief to vertical MAP sensor intermittent failure when heat soaked. After doing all the hard work customer says he'll fix it himself (ho hum!). Good luck with that..

Last was a nice RD125 LC, (looked nice on the outside!). Found double the amount of gearbox oil that it should have in it and all that work and someone filled the engine with plain tap water. Need to ride it and make sure it's no leaking in the morning after sorting that one out.

 

[Gunk]

Bit of an odd day today..

Finished off a service plus chain and sprockets replacement on an early Blade, all went to plan.

Of course it did, it’s a Blade!

 

[keithmac]

Of course it did, it’s a Blade!

The Blade was lovely, nice comfy and smooth, the Panigale was horrible in comparison (noticed it was in Sport 195bhp mode though!).

Blade every time for me..

 

[keithmac]

Before and after on the 400 Yamaha and the mess that came out of the RD125's radiator..

 

[13 rider]

Was working across the road from a local bike shop yesterday so nipped in bought a new chain for the Defy it was getting worn and also wanted to support the shop .
Fitted this morning after giving the rest of the drive chain a good clean everything nice an shiny

 

[fossyant]

My frame bearings arrived first thing from Wytch Bearings so set about replacing all 8. Pressed the bearings out using a variety of sockets and a vice. Pressed them in, again using sockets of corresponding sizes to the bearing. Took a few hours as I had to dismantle the back end of the FS including the mech and rear caliper. All back together and cleaned.

 

[DCBassman]

Handlebar real estate expansion.

Fitted the Cateye Velo 2 computer courtesy of @EltonFrog and it's all working.

 

[simongt]

Aldi were recently flogging aerosol cans of WD40 motorbike chain cleaner. Now, knowing what a task keeping a cycle chain clean is, I thought hmm, why not - ? Big chain, wee chain, it's just a size thing - ! The can boasts ' removes dirt, grime, dust & oil', 'leaves no residue, quick drying, maintains performance of chain.'
Tried it on several of our bikes and cor, works a treat - ! Being under pressure, it literally blasts the muck off the chain. Probably not quite as efficient as a proper chain cleaner, but certainly comes a pretty good second - !
If you 'try this at home', be advised to put a bit of cardboard or similar between the chainstay & rim before using, otherwise the crud will get all over said parts; arrgghh - !

 

[keithmac]

Little update on the XJ400 Maxim.

Started it up this morning and it just didn't sound "right", off RHS cylinder on choke.

Considering customer had "rebuilt" the carbs I wasn't intending to go inside the bowls..

Anyway, first thing noticed was the choke jet in the bowl was clogged shut, easy job there. Then looking at the fuel floats they just looked wrong.

Reset float heights and thought happy days!. Engine still didn't sound right so after a load of faffing around pulling plug leads and trying to get it running on RHS only I found the tip of the pilot air screw had been snapped off inside the carb!.

God knows how they managed that!.

Anyway hopefully I'll be able to get the pilot air screw tip out on Tuesday.

Would have been quicker if they'd just brought the bike in without "fixing" it first, you can't assume anything!.

Wrong.

Right.

Yamaha special tool.

????

 

[DCLane]

Wheels off the Fuji Track Classic I bought earlier this week. The chain was at the limit so that was removed and a new one ordered.

Then started to remove the rust / damaged paintwork and clean it. Lots of tar marks which are gone. The paint doesn't quite match so a new enamel was also ordered.

Drop bars fitted, but I'd prefer narrower ones. Also whilst the bottom bracket's good the headset will need greasing before I'm done.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Just a check-over & (dieselly tag) wipe-over of the derailleurs/chainrings of senior managements Boardman & my CGR
One loose rack-bolt in the Boardman

EDIT @21:47
A photo from last year, as I put bar-ends on it last month; https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/what-have-you-fettled-today.87079/post-5928351

 

[Jenkins]

New, slightly narrower handlebar fitted to the Bootzipper and a new seatpost fitted to the commuter Van Nicholas - for no other reason than I can and there's nothing else I'm spending my money on at the moment.

My attempts to fit a matching seatpost to my best Van Nicholas have been thwarted (for the moment) by the old alloy post being stuck in the frame, while I'm still waiting for a delivery from Ribble for the Bootzipper to complete the hattrick

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Minor fettle for me today. I'd put a new chain and cassette on my Eastway about a month ago, swapped the knackered 11-27 for a 12-28, all had been well until this afternoons ride where I'd had a few ghost shifts and a couple of miss changes early in the ride before it all settled down again. Tonight I cleaned it again, relubed it and tweaked the high, low and b screws, I'll see how it is on my next ride but the change felt better tonight. The only thing I found was that the high screw was out a bit.

 

[Spartak]

Fitted some old Schwalbe CX tyres onto my Bowery single speed bike to use on my social distancing gravel route I'm riding with my daughter these days... 👍

 

[Gunk]

I stripped out and serviced the bottom bracket on my Brompton today.

the fixed cup came out with some old fashioned leverage

once everything was out I cleaned up the threads

It’s been replaced as the bearings were in really good condition, just needed a good clean.

I had some new bearings so I popped them in with plenty of grease, I also copper greased the threads although the fixed cup was a pig to get back in as someone had previously chewed up the BB thread, but a light tap with a mallet seated it on the thread and it then easily spun home. The shaft is sided which I realised when the crank was too close to the frame!

All adjusted and finished.