What Have You Fettled Today?

[si_c]

Finished the install of 180mm rotor on my Trek MTB, and then recabled the rear derailleur after installing a new cassette. The derailleur clamp arm rubs against the cassette in a couple of gears so ordered a derailleur extender which will arrive tomorrow.

Also checked the hanger alignment on the Domane - as suspected it was way way way out - so using my new alignment tool I got it pretty close to straight. A 40km ride this evening with some hills resulted in no skipping gears or problems unlike previously so we'll see for now.

 

[HLaB]

I fitted a new power meter crank to my bike tonight. I wanted to replace the BB at the same time only to find out my TL-FC25 adaptor wasn't compatible with the current BB and a TL-FC24 adaptor is needed.

 

[si_c]

Fitted the link extender to the MTB yesterday - all perfect.

Went for a ride, I'd recently raised the saddle a touch on the Domane and it ended up being a more comfortable position so half way round on the Racelight I raised the saddle on that too. And overtorqued the binder. And rode home 11 miles unable to sit down.

 

[8mph]

Straightened my mech hanger using a spare rear wheel. It worked a treat.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Fitted new boom to recumbent and move the BB, cranks, Derailluer, dynamo light across.

 

[si_c]

Put an new (salvaged from old frame) seat binder onto the Racelight - seems the old one only engaged half the threads with the bolt used, poor design IMO so hardly surprising that my ham handed attempt at fitting resulted in the threads being stripped. At least the saddle stays in place now

 

[ColinJ]

I don't much like riding in the dark but at this time of year I am often returning from rides at around sunset so it is wise to have lights on my bike. I went to switch the rear light on the other night and discovered that it had fallen off. It was only a cheap red LED flasher from Lidl so I'm not bothered about the cost, but it needed replacing...

I used the red LED setting on my head torch for a couple of rides but decided to pinch the light off my CX bike which is out of action, awaiting a replacement fork (CAADX safety recall - check if this applies to yours HERE!).

The light from the CAADX is one that I found lying on the road so that makes up for losing the newer one, especially because it is a lot better than the one that I lost. It is very bright and has several different eye-catching flash patterns.

I searched around my junk box and found a bracket that the light clips into. Pretty lucky that, because otherwise I would just have bodged it onto the seatpost with cable ties!

 

[12boy]

I know this is a cycling forum but I've been working on this for about 10 months so here goes....
Began with an old 4x8 1100 lb load Harbor Freight that cost about $300 new and was used to haul branches, manure, compost rocks etc. Was red, faded to pink and was coated with anti rust polymer and painted black. (first pics)
Then a bed and sides were built increasing the width to 6'2"" at the widest and a semicircular flap was added to each end with a set of hinges to allow the flaps to be folded down for more aero travel and less sensitivity to cross winds. 7 rafters were made to notch into slots on the edges of the flaps, and a 4x6 sleeping platform with lots of storage below was added. It could be removed if I needed to haul big things. It has a window with screen over the bed and and Dutch doors on the rear. I'm 5'8" so 6' 2" is long enough to sleep on. The hubs were repacked and it has new tail lights and wiring. I am guessing it weighs about 600 lbs unloaded and my Honda Element can tow it easily. I have a pic with it folded for travel and a couple more showing the top up and the interior. Mrs.12 insisted on a table so one pulls out of slots under the bed. I hope to spend a night in it yet this fall. My neighbor from across the street did half of the work, and having a second pair of hands was invaluable. It was a lot of fun for both of us.

Ju

 

[12boy]

We had an early snowstorm which dumped about 8 inches of snow, and since all the trees still had green leaves many branches were broken. My sheepherders wagon was parked under a crab apple tree and survived some branches and a lot of snow. The only problem is one of the roof spars popped out of its sockets, probably due a branch falling on the canvas. Good to know it can handle the snow.

 

[si_c]

Bled the front brake on the Racelight - it's been a bit spongey since I installed it over 2k km ago and I'd never bothered to sort it as a couple of pumps on the lever made it prefectly usable. Gave it a quick go over today in lieu of doing any real work and it's much better than it was, no sponginess in the lever anymore although it still pulls much further than I would like.

Quite a lot of air bubbles came out so will probably rebleed it in another few hundred kms once I've seen how it settles.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Adjusted a headset

 

[JhnBssll]

Decided to go ahead with the SRAM to Shimano swap on my commuter after a friend offered to buy the working SRAM bits. Set to work this evening removing the RIval 22 bits and got stuck at the rear mech. The main bolt had seized solid inside the mech body - the thread was free as I had copper greased it on assembly, but even after a soak in penetrating oil and a few sharp taps it wasn't budging I ended up removing the mech hanger and placing it in the vice before sawing through the mech body. This released the bolt allowing me to unscrew it the rest of the way but obviously destroyed what was left of the mech Fortunately the rest of it was in pretty good nick - the knackered mech also goes some way to explain why I couldn't find anything wrong with the shifter while I was investigating some problems the other day

I popped the new M475 rear hub and R800 cassette on and placed them in the rear dropouts to check everything fits nicely before I build the wheel. I've also fitted the levers and front mech, but still waiting on new brake calipers. Actually I haven't ordered them yet, so the commuter will be off the road for a while

The rims I'll be using arrived the other day, Bontrager Affinity TLR's. The front is 24 hole and the rear 32 hole but having ordered them together from the same shop I at least thought they would match

Slightly annoying, I've asked the shop if they can supply a matching set of decals and, if not, I'll just peel these one's off until I source some from elsewhere The spokes should arrive at some point so I'll have to strip the hub out of the front wheel ready to start building the new rims up. I popped the tyres and tubes off this evening so we're all set to go again when more bits are here 😄

Wiggle have also upset me having supplied me with an R7000 mech minus the usual hanger. It certainly wasn't advertised as such and the picture showed the hanger fitted but this is what arrived

I've contacted them 3 days in a row so far and they've not given me any answers. I understand they're busy, but when they're sending out incorrect components or components with bits missing you've got to wonder whats going on

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I re-taped the handlebars this evening, I had put brown leather on a few months back thinking it would match the saddle but it was too light a colour and it was also too thin and therefore not very comfortable, especially off road. So I trimmed it at each end and left it as a base layer, and re-covered with Cinelli cork tape. Looks far more suited to this bike and is thick and comfortable.
Before:

After:

 

[Gunk]

Cinelli cork is my tape of choice, it's on all my bikes. like you I've flirted with brown, it never matches the saddle so mine are all back to simple black.

Yours looks great.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Yesterday’s fettling was not done by me. On Friday, we bought a new-to-him bike for my son who is growing far too quickly. A 2014 Merida Cyclo-Cross 4. Lovely bike. His first ‘adult’ bike, his previous was an Islabike Luath. My son needs to start learning to fettle so I taught him how to swap pedals (flats to clipless), attach a bottle cage and pump up his tyres. He did it all himself. We all have to start somewhere. He’s not keen on getting grease (copper slip) on his fingers though

I fixed a loose rivnut on the seat post and painted the rivnut’s chipped paint with black nail polish courtesy of my daughter. Out for a ride this morning, so we’ll see how the boy gets on with the bike.