What Have You Fettled Today?

[mrandmrspoves]

Had a go at putting some tri bars on my old Falcon....in the hopes that they will enable me to ride it with dodgy shoulders....but shoulder is too dodgy at moment - I gave up trying to do it one handed.

 

[Hilldodger]

Took the front wheel of the 'Flying Fence' (a quad made by Trevor Jarvis of Flying Gate fame) ready to fit a new rim and then flogging it on Ebay.

 

[Night Train]

On the Emmelle changed the 1/8 sprocket on the hub gear for a 3/32 one so he chain fits properly. This is the hub gear from a 20" wheel that I built into a 26" front rim using spokes removed from another 26" front wheel last week. The gears are selected using the indexed 7speed shifter where there are two clicks per gear change.
I also fitted a V brake lever to the canti rear brake, just to make it work, as the canti lever was running out of pull due to the sticky cables and knackered return springs on the cantis.



The Emmelle is a hack, locked with a Abus Granite Extreme D lock, that looks like crap so no one tries to steel it .

 

[Drago]

New sturmey rim laced to sturmey hub, bearings fitted and lured and cones properly tensioned,

 

[potsy]

Went to investigate a very stiff crank earlier, the bike was last used a week/10 days ago on a very muddy ride home.
Seems the left hand BB has seized, that's a job I haven't done before so set about removing the old one before I order a replacement.
Quite easy really, hopefully new one will be ordered later and delivered asap.

Can't work out why it's seized though, look away @ianrauk

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Got up this morning looked out of the window and decided not to ride this morning. Instead I've been fettling bikes, the geared bike got cleaned checked oiled and greased, then was put way till the spring. The fixed was given its normal weekly checks and adjustments, checked the tyres for debris and put some air in them, checked and adjusted the chain, and gave it a visual inspection then a clean and oiling, I'll be using the fixed all winter. The old Dawes had a new chainring, 54 tooth, fitted, and setup, cleaned and oiled it, then I put it on the turbo ready for some turbo sessions during the winter.

 

[HovR]

Cleaned the bike after this mornings club ride. My full length guards were no match for the miles of muddy slurry that farmers left all over the local lanes - My poor Dawes came out absolutely covered in it!

 

[fenlandpsychocyclist]

Washed my trek 1.2a
Washed my raleigh at20
Washed my frankenstein hybrid to drop bar conversion bike-cum-tank with dslr carrier
Washed my car
Washed my other car
Washed my girlfriend

The last one is still dirty

 

[Accy cyclist]

I put some nice new white bar tape on. I was surprised at the result, it looks very nice. The only trouble is i don't want to touch it with my black winter gloves as they might discolour the tape when wet!

 

[fenlandpsychocyclist]

I put some nice new white bar tape on. I was surprised at the result, it looks very nice. The only trouble is i don't want to touch it with my black winter gloves as they might discolour the tape when wet!

I'm about to replace the 1000 mile old white tape on my trek ... with black!

 

[ianrauk]

I put some nice new white bar tape on. I was surprised at the result, it looks very nice. The only trouble is i don't want to touch it with my black winter gloves as they might discolour the tape when wet!

might you say?

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'm about to replace the 1000 mile old white tape on my trek ... with black!

The original tape was white so i stayed with it. The bike is a Scott USA red white and blue colour scheme, i thought about red or blue tape but stayed with white. It's a bit older than yours though, 12 years and about 7000 miles i'd say!

 

[Erudin]

Chased and faced the BB on my Surly LHT. Bought an IceToolz BB Tapping & Facing Tool from Ebay. Was easier to do than I was expecting, the instructions that it came with was just a diagram but the parktools site had some more detailed instructions.

Threaded the taps in by hand to start with, the threads were pretty good but had some paint over-spray on them.

The facing took a bit longer as there was lots of paint on the shell faces and some metal needed removing, went slowly adding lots of cutting fluid.

 

[fenlandpsychocyclist]

The original tape was white so i stayed with it. The bike is a Scott USA red white and blue colour scheme, i thought about red or blue tape but stayed with white. It's a bit older than yours though, 12 years and about 7000 miles i'd say!

I doubt if my coyote avocet will last that long, nor my raleigh at20 ... the trek should though (apart from its bar tape).

 

[Night Train]

I fitted the ergonomic grips and spoke reflectors, I bought from Aldi, on to Emily this afternoon.

Very blingy for a pile of dirt and rust but not bad for my incognito winter hack.

The recently rebuilt rear wheel with hub gears works ok using the ream mech shifter and the V brake lever seems to work the canti on the back wheel enough to give me brakes.

Just need some mismatched mudguards now.