What Have You Fettled Today?

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Crawled around on the shed roof in the wind and rain this morning replacing the roofing felt which had decided to fly south for the winter last night.

At last I know it's still sturdy now I've been wriggling about on top of if

 

[Drago]

Put some nice brown Deda bar tape on the Elswick.

 

[Night Train]

Fitted lights to Emily, my winter/local Emmelle hack bike. Also changed the cable to the rear canti brake and moved the bell to somewhere I could reach it. Then made up a bungie for the rear rack to hold my D lock in place.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Removed both wheels from the fixed.
Moved cog and lock ring from current wheels to new tarty white ones
Put tarty white ones on.
Adjusted the brake.
Set the chain tension, and resolved to change the chain soonest. Tis almost shot.
recharged all the AAA batteries in my three rear lights
took my AyUp LED light head off and sent it away for upgrade
fitted spare AyUp light head in its place.

 

[Cyclist33]

Put me winter wheels on.

 

[asterix]

Fitted a new spoke without removing the wheel or tyre, feel proud.

Try it without deflating next.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Try it without deflating next.

It was without deflating!

 

[asterix]

It was without deflating!

Can you do it again please, this time videoing it. I haven't bust a spoke yet and I need to see how it's done. Ta.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

It was without deflating!

Be careful doing that. I found when trueing the wheel after a spoke replacement that the nipple had a burr. This cut a neat 1/4 inch hole in the rim tape and inner tube. It wasn't a good day.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Can you do it again please, this time videoing it. I haven't bust a spoke yet and I need to see how it's done. Ta.

The spoke broke near the hub so holding the length of the bust spoke I unscrewed it from the nipple that attaches it to the rim and removed the other half from the hub. I then fed the new spoke through the hole in the hub that was left by the duffer that had been removed and bent it about (quite badly to be honest) until I was able to use a spoke key on the nipple to screw the nipple to the new spoke. I then tinkered with the spoke key and opposite (and surrounding) spokes until they all made roughly the same note when twanged. Since then most of the bends in the spoke have straightened out, so I think I need to do the adjusting and twanging bit again.

This was all made much easier by being on my single speed.

Now sit comfortably and wait until someone who knows what they're talking about pops up, then you'll know the proper way rather than the way I made up on the hoof*.


*I don't really have hooves

 

[asterix]

The spoke broke near the hub so holding the length of the bust spoke I unscrewed it from the nipple that attaches it to the rim and removed the other half from the hub. I then fed the new spoke through the hole in the hub that was left by the duffer that had been removed and bent it about (quite badly to be honest) until I was able to use a spoke key on the nipple to screw the nipple to the new spoke. I then tinkered with the spoke key and opposite (and surrounding) spokes until they all made roughly the same note when twanged. Since then most of the bends in the spoke have straightened out, so I think I need to do the adjusting and twanging bit again.

This was all made much easier by being on my single speed.

Now sit comfortably and wait until someone who knows what they're talking about pops up, then you'll know the proper way rather than the way I made up on the hoof*.


*I don't really have hooves

Thanks for that. It sounds a lot easier than I imagined..

 

[potsy]

Fettled a new chain onto the road bike, showing as somewhere between .75 and 1 on the chain checker so should be all that is needed and hopefully cassette is not too worn.
Gave it a general wipe down and refitted the seatpost rack for the commute,

Still ignoring the CX bike as that one needs a good clean after last weeks off roading commutes

 

[defy-one]

Slammed the bars and cut an inch off the ends. Fitted some specialized bg geometry grips and bar ends to the elite

 

[fossyant]

Because I can't ride, fettled a bar (plastic 25mm pipe) to mount to the back of the pannier rack to mount two of the lights that were mounted to the rack stays (to make more secure).

Autoglym Super Resin and Extra Deep Gloss polish on the commuter, not that I will be getting it dirty for a while.

 

[Sandra6]

This is tiny in the scheme of general fettling, but I repaired my first ever puncture today. yay me!!!