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New square taper bottom bracket fitted to my fixed tonight.
What Have You Fettled Today?
- Thread starter threebikesmcginty
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Actually yesterday but put the mudguards on my old bike which is now officially my winter bike.
not really designed for mudguards but I’ve managed to get them on despite the minimal clearance.
Hopefully out for a ride this weekend (will miss riding my lovely ‘summer bike’
)
not really designed for mudguards but I’ve managed to get them on despite the minimal clearance.
Hopefully out for a ride this weekend (will miss riding my lovely ‘summer bike’
)
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
New pads in the front disc caliper. That’s better, travel back to where it should be, and more importantly brake function. Refitted rear wheel after deflating and removing flints from tyre. Just remembered need to reinflate to usual pressure. Will do that in a minute. Also refitted front mudguard bolting it to front instead of rear of fork. That should give better coverage and stop spray off top of wheel.
Got a gash in the sidewall of a tire - pretty big cut and judging from the marks on the side of the tire something fairly substantial went through it.
Couldn't get a replacement of the same size and model in reasonable time so put a pair of Rubino Pros in 25c on. I could have just bought one, but I hate mismatched tyres and wheels.
Couldn't get a replacement of the same size and model in reasonable time so put a pair of Rubino Pros in 25c on. I could have just bought one, but I hate mismatched tyres and wheels.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Not the bike, but the old Hifi.
I have a 1986 JVC Separates system, with a newer Technics 5 disc changer (the original JVC CD packed up). It's all 'touch' buttons and cost about £500 back then (excluding the CD unit). The balance and volume sliders have been playing up - i.e. crackling and losing balance between the speakers. We've not used it for ages. MrsF wanted to use it again. We forgot where it was plugged into as well... found that. Anyway, the volume and balance sliders were still not working well. Got out the electrical contact cleaner spray and squirted it in each side of both sliders. Ran them up and down.
Fixed the issue. 34 years of iccle bits of dirt gone. I do love electrical contact cleaner - no need to pull it to bits.
It's a cracking system, and we can only run the volume at 2 out of 10. 2.5 is incredible. We're also using some speakers that MrsF's mum and dad used to make - they had a loud speaker company at the time in the 80's - wood cabinets etc, no plastic. I've popped a Bluetooth receiver on the aux channel to make it useable with phones etc.
I have a 1986 JVC Separates system, with a newer Technics 5 disc changer (the original JVC CD packed up). It's all 'touch' buttons and cost about £500 back then (excluding the CD unit). The balance and volume sliders have been playing up - i.e. crackling and losing balance between the speakers. We've not used it for ages. MrsF wanted to use it again. We forgot where it was plugged into as well... found that. Anyway, the volume and balance sliders were still not working well. Got out the electrical contact cleaner spray and squirted it in each side of both sliders. Ran them up and down.
Fixed the issue. 34 years of iccle bits of dirt gone. I do love electrical contact cleaner - no need to pull it to bits.
It's a cracking system, and we can only run the volume at 2 out of 10. 2.5 is incredible. We're also using some speakers that MrsF's mum and dad used to make - they had a loud speaker company at the time in the 80's - wood cabinets etc, no plastic. I've popped a Bluetooth receiver on the aux channel to make it useable with phones etc.
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DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
I love either keeping old stuff running or bringing it back to life with a modern purpose.
My computer and TV play sound through a set each of 1990s Yamaha YST-MS30 2.1 speakers. They're not excessively powerful, but they do sound good.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Star Wars sounds immense through the old Hifi... Incredible..... only for when I am in the house.
Hard to hear it when you're outside to be fair.
Well, he said they only put the volume up to 2, if they push it to 11 he may be able to hear it on his ridesHard to hear it when you're outside to be fair.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Major weight reduction programme on the Spa Elan - gave it a good clean after yesterday's ride and scraped 6 months worth of acumulated of mud from the undersides of both mudguards.
I mentioned on another thread the other day (so sorry to repeat myself) that I have moved my 20yr old Technics HiFi into my garage and the lovely deep sound is fantastic compared to my tinny plastic 2 band radio that preceded it.. I still have my 30yr old AIWA Separates HiFi stored in the loft and can't bare to part with it unless it goes to a good home. The old stuff is great though IMO
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Lol after reading this thread I remembered to pump my tyres up before tomorrow. My last fettling of that bike had to been cleaning and lubing it last Sunday.
Well, I erm need to own up to being a bit of a dobber, especially after having the cheek to complain about how long it took for my chain to arrive.I ordered the wrong size!
My chainring and Sprocket are both 3/32" and for some unknown reason I ordered a 1/8" by mistake. I know that I could use it but it just seems to wallow about on the teeth so the old one has had a damn good clean and lube and sounds very quiet again so I'll be out in the morning for a test ride to somewhere that will sell me Coffee
I mentioned on another thread the other day (so sorry to repeat myself) that I have moved my 20yr old Technics HiFi into my garage and the lovely deep sound is fantastic compared to my tinny plastic 2 band radio that preceded it.. I still have my 30yr old AIWA Separates HiFi stored in the loft and can't bare to part with it unless it goes to a good home. The old stuff is great though IMO
I’ve got a 15 year old Sony micro system in the garage, the speakers are attached to the wall, it was £25 from a charity shop and the sound quality is amazing!
Definitely improves the fettling though doesn't it
