What Have You Fettled Today?

[Rickshaw Phil]

Another round of wheel bearing servicing, on the Dawes Galaxy this time. No serious issues on this one, although being the original wheels from 1997 they are showing their age a bit. It'll keep them going for a while longer.

 

[DSK]

Finished work a bit early so did a bit of bike detailing, just need to wax it and condition the rubber hoods tomorrow.

WHEELS

BAR TAPE

DEGREASED AND WASHED

 

[pawl]

Could you put a "derailleur hanger extender" on it?
Like this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alloy-Bi...var=424948341424&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2648
It allows you to use bigger cogs on the cassettes.

Length of the cage is not a problem It already has a long arm rear mech.It is also a triple.What I would like to do is increase the size of the largest ,currently a28.Searches for Campag 9 speed only show up to 28

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Fitted a Vision Team 30 wheelset to my eastway tonight, took them out the box and noticed the bearings seemed a bit tight and dry, so I lubed and adjusted the bearings before I started, had them running free and smooth as silk, came to fit the wheels and they're a bit wider than the standard Eastway wheels so had to reset the brakes, my Durano tyres proved to be a sod to fit and almost defeated my thumbs, they almost fall on and off the original wheels, the tyres haven't seated on the rim well so I'm going to have to work them completely on the rims before I ride it.

 

[RoubaixCube]

I went back and cleaned the chain of my Triban AGAIN - I thought i did a proper job the other day but there was still black gummy mess from the wet lube i was using. The drivetrain is CLEAN but the chain is still not quite spotless. Degreaser & a nail brush soon sorted that out.

This bike has been untouched since some of the much colder and damper SLRs earlier in the year. Some Squirt wax lube will be applied when the chain is dry. Been running this stuff on my Cube for the last few weeks and im pretty satisfied at how smooth it keeps things running. I think it performs better than the Finish Line Dry Teflon lube ive been using on it thus far.

 

[Gunk]

Fitted some new brake shoes and new cassette on my Pug project, now finished!

 

[rogerzilla]

I retaped the bars on The Mighty Quinn, which has stayed clean for six weeks (a record). It's usually my commuting bike and only gets cleaned in April and October.

 

[Gunk]

That’s a very nice bike

 

[Nigelnightmare]

Length of the cage is not a problem It already has a long arm rear mech.It is also a triple.What I would like to do is increase the size of the largest ,currently a28.Searches for Campag 9 speed only show up to 28

Hence my suggestion of a derailleur hanger extender as this will lower the top jockey wheel (moving it away from the cassette) allowing more clearance for larger gogs.
The downside is it will be farther from the smaller cogs and may not shift as crisply as before.

Hope that makes sense.

 

[pawl]

Hence my suggestion of a derailleur hanger extender as this will lower the top jockey wheel (moving it away from the cassette) allowing more clearance for larger gogs.
The downside is it will be farther from the smaller cogs and may not shift as crisply as before.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks for your advice ido appreciate it.Still can’t find anything above a 28 cog on nine speed Might think about changing the chain set

 

[DCBassman]

If it's a Campag freehub, you'd have to change the wheel begore you can use Shimano cassettes. I think.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Noticed on my ride yesterday that the changes on my Ultegra 8000 rear derailleur weren’t very crisp.

Put it up on the workstand today expecting to have to tweak the cable tension adjuster a little only to discover that I couldn’t select the inside or either of the two outermost cogs.

Hmmmm... unclamped the cable and discovered I could only get 8 clicks on the shifter in either diection while maintaining a tension on the cable.

Turned out the cable was very badly frayed inside the shifter. In fact it was only hanging on by a couple of strands. Lucky I checked before it totally broke or it would have been a nightmare getting the cable end out of the shifter.

Luckily, I had two sets of gear cables in my spares bin so changed the rear inner and outers, which is more of a task than usual on the Kinesis Titanium as the cables are internally routed.

It’s mainly used as my summer bike and has done 7200 miles since the cable was installed when I built the bike.

 

[FrankCrank]

A crank removal tool I ordered arrived yesterday, after several weeks waiting (no surprise). It cost 2.56 quids delivered, so I was expecting it to be made of cheese or the threads to be a sloppy fit, but none of this. My other one I left back in UK by mistake, so got this just as a stopgap. Removed cranksets from 2 old bikes here this morning, new tool worked a treat.

It's starting to feel like Groundhog Day, so a welcome distraction for a couple of hours

 

[CXRAndy]

Fitted double leg centre stand to wife's Ebike. Nice heavy duty- 80kg weight capacity for bike.

 

[Gunk]

It must be a sign that I’ve got plenty of time on my hands when I decide to do jobs like this!

The roof rack and cycle carriers live permanently on Mrs Gunks car, so today I pulled them off cleaned and greased everything and repainted the scruffy feet.