What Have You Fettled Today?

[HovR]

Cleaned up and fitted a Shimano freewheel to my Dawes to replace the cheapo "Eagle" one which was making horrible noises. Big thanks to compo for that!

I also adjusted the front mudguard, as the clearances were so tight that any bit of dirt picked up by the wheel made loud rubbing noises on the mudguard. This involved bending the piece of metal which attaches on to the brake pivot bolt, which was a bit of a pain, but I got it there eventually with a bit of gentle persuasion. And a hammer.

 

[doctornige]

Filed and sanded a Fulcrum skewer lever after an ice-induced crash near Marple.

 

[derrick]

I made the chain shorter on the fixie after fitting a smaller sprocket, interesting chain connector, that was last night, today i have been decorating, just sat down, the other half is making a cup of tea, lovely might even have a biscuit.

 

[dan_bo]

Fitted three panes of glass into an internal window and fitted some fresh blocks onto the croadie and fitted some 23s for me first ride in a month. Decent.

 

[HovR]

Rearranged everything in my saddle bag to make everything more space efficient. Also replaced the too-short section of heat shrink covering my cafe-stop chain lock with a long enough section of inner-tube.

Hardcore fettling.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Replaced ceramic speed BB30 bearing which was noisy, and discovered a crack in my Carbon and Titanium Look pedals. Not good or cheap to replace

 

[DooDah]

Today I built an extension on my house, tomorrow I will be building an extension on someone elses, But everytime I fettle with my bikes, I screw something up. Hence why I don't touch my expensive bike

 

[doctornige]

Complete, wheels-off clean

 

[musa]

bike washed down wax lubed greased
replace front brake pads
cleaned back brakes (need to buy more pads to replace)

 

[doctornige]

Refinished a Fulcrum skewer after it got mangled in an icy spill.

 

[HLaB]

Fixed two of Four tubes last night discovered the third had another p'ture and the fourth a dodgy stem. So I've patched third tonight but I don't think I can fix the fourth.

 

[potsy]

Swapped the Moon light onto the ice bike ready for more offroading tomorrow, twice the power now to blind @fossyant on the TPT
Put the Garmin mount from the Secteur onto it too, must buy/beg/steal some more cable ties for when I swap it back.

 

[musa]

fitted my cadence kit also

 

[arallsopp]

Got annoyed with the appetite of my XT rear derailleur (which chews through cable with the ferocity of a bond villain) so rather than keep replacing the cable every 600 miles (which has sucked considerably) I've stripped it down, filed down the clamping washer, threaded the cable end through a ring of dead inner tube and clamped the whole thing in its little rubber duvet. Will let you know in 600 miles whether it was worth it or not.

 

[Cheshire Celt]

Fitted my new carbon rims