What Have You Fettled Today?

[Night Train]

Just fettled Arch's winter bike, inflated the tyres and lube the chain and rear mech, and swapped over for her summer bike. Also swapped the trailer hitch over too.

I know some of us are really not into obsessive bike cleaning but it could have done with a bit of a clean to reduce its weight by about 20%.

 

[Arch]

Just fettled Arch's winter bike, inflated the tyres and lube the chain and rear mech, and swapped over for her summer bike. Also swapped the trailer hitch over too.

I know some of us are really not into obsessive bike cleaning but it could have done with a bit of a clean to reduce its weight by about 20%.

You've not cleaned it? It's my winter bike, I need the weight for traction!

 

[mr_hippo]

The handlebar mount for my Drift X170 is broken. I know they are only £17 but after you add shipping and duty it will be closer to £40.
I know that if you tale the complete mount off tht there is a tripod screw mount so that it fits on a tripod. I decided to drill two holes in the arm of my Minoura Space Bar and screw it to that and it works!

 

[mrandmrspoves]

I only just learned how to unbuckle wheels and find it a joyous process!

Certainly a very satisfying thing to do - and always impresses people that don't know how to do it. I often get comments like "Wow I thought it needed new wheels" I have a wheel jig - which I love.....makes me feel like a pro!
(I would describe myself as barely proficient - certainly not professional!)

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Certainly a very satisfying thing to do - and always impresses people that don't know how to do it. I often get comments like "Wow I thought it needed new wheels" I have a wheel jig - which I love.....makes me feel like a pro!
(I would describe myself as barely proficient - certainly not professional!)

I'd love a wheel jig! I just had the kitchen floor and half an hour before my wife came downstairs after putting the wee one to bed!

I'm considering building myself a clown bike fixie, by which I mean a bike where the hub doesn't sit in the middle of the wheel...

 

[youngoldbloke]

Really foul weather today so inspected and cleaned winter bike brake blocks (again) - cartridge, Tiagra. Reckon they have a few more miles to go before they need replacing. Adjusted clearances and checked that wheels were centred correctly.

 

[robjh]

Last weekend I noticed a serious creaking sound whenever I turned the handlebars. Was looking up how to dismantle a headset when I read that these sounds may come from dry gear cables rubbing in the ferrules on the downtube.

A couple of drops of oil, and hey presto no more creaking. Low-tech but it worked.

 

[HovR]

Took off, emptied the water out of, and lubricated all gear cables today. A mixture of road grit flung up off the front wheel and riding through a bottom bracket high flooded road had caused the gear shifting to deteriorate!

I'll be repacking bearings tomorrow.

 

[gbb]

Puncture repaied on the wifes bike, and homebrew twin LED front lamp has lost its locknut on the input jack so it occasionally pops into the shell. Quick repair and she's away again. Gotta find a suitable locknut....

 

[potsy]

Studded tyres re-fitted to the ice bike hybrid, new front brake pads too, got some triple compound Clarkes ones, got to be better than the Tesco specials that are on there now

 

[paulw1969]

yesteday i cleaned the bike with degreaser (it was ditched) and removed the chain............today.......tweaked brake cables......checked my xmas present (topeak saddle bag) would fit before it dissapeared until xmas.......refitted my chain after it spent the night in degreaser for a nice deep clean...checked brake/mudguard caliper tightness and checked tightness of the cleats on my shoes.

 

[HovR]

Took off, emptied the water out of, and lubricated all gear cables today. A mixture of road grit flung up off the front wheel and riding through a bottom bracket high flooded road had caused the gear shifting to deteriorate!

I'll be repacking bearings tomorrow.

I couldn't stand the thought of my bike sitting there with water in the bottom bracket, slowly corroding away at things, so I dismantled the BB, removed all the emulsified grease and water, gave the BB shell a dousing of GT85, and it's now awaiting assembly tomorrow with fresh grease.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Like it. Bulk orders for Mr Sheen - group buy discounts ?

If you were serious about your bike you'd use t-cut and protective wax. Mr Sheen is ok after a quick wipe down but for a thorough job some automotive product is best. Not that I bother to do it on my bikes,

 

[fossyant]

If you were serious about your bike you'd use t-cut and protective wax. Mr Sheen is ok after a quick wipe down but for a thorough job some automotive product is best. Not that I bother to do it on my bikes,

Wrong.

I use protective waxes 2 or 3 times a year, never t-cut as it's too strong. Autoglym Super Resin polish. Mr Sheen is an excellent regular use 'cleaner'. T-cut would damage the custom paint scheme I have on my best bike (over time), and it's over 22 years old and still looks like new, so I'll stick with Autoglym and Mr Sheen !

 

[400bhp]

t-cut is just a crude filler. Fossy is right.

Pulled apart the headset on the Carrerra Subway yesterday. It's a semi integrated headset with stupid annoying sealed bearing races held in by a flamin metal spring clip.

Gave up after about an hour of trying to replace the clip after regreasing the bearings.

Just ordered a new one.

Should have ordered a different make as i reckon it's only done 1500 miles.