What Have You Fettled Today?

[si_c]

Had a bit of rim wobble on the rear of the Trek after my ride to the office on Tuesday. Mrs C is out tonight so figured I would clean the rim and true it, unfortunately after the clean it became clear that the rim is cracked in multiple places on the rim bed, so a terminal failure.

Sad news as the rim had only just gone out of true on that ride after about 12k km, it was concave along the braking surface but I had assumed it had a few thousand km left in it. In fairness it was a £120 wheelset from Wiggle about 7 years ago.

 

[Sittingduck]

Not zactly a fettle but a pre work wheel scrubbing session in the morning sun

 

[fossyant]

Not zactly a fettle but a pre work wheel scrubbing session in the morning sun

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I have a wash session today too - mainly removing the dust of daughter and wife's bikes before they come down to our caravan. My best bike is coming and that's not moved from the ground anchor since October ! All need a dust and a tyre pump up.

 

[Sittingduck]

Am also seriously considering if today is gonna be the official 'mudguard removal day'. Bit early I know in mid March but it's so lovely out there...

Also might even leave them on the Ti bike and just remove the race blades from the Defy. That'll give me 2 non guarded road bikes, a guarded road/gravel bike and an MTB... should be enough for starters, right?

 

[fossyant]

Am also seriously considering if today is gonna be the official 'mudguard removal day'. Bit early I know in mid March but it's so lovely out there...

Also might even leave them on the Ti bike and just remove the race blades from the Defy. That'll give me 2 non guarded road bikes, a guarded road/gravel bike and an MTB... should be enough for starters, right?

Don't - we know who to blame !

 

[fossyant]

Fleet washed.

 

[RoubaixCube]

Weather is looking good so I put some cleats on the new planetx shoes and adjusted pedal tension. Slightly nervous as i haven't ridden with SH-51 cleats for a very long time. Have to remember to disengage a little early till i get used to them again.

 

[si_c]

Picked up replacement wheelset from the LBS today, they had a Shimano RS100 set in stock and offered me a decent discount on it, so although I could have got the same set cheaper online I just popped down on my lunch to pick them up today. Means I can take the bike out tomorrow.

Removed tyres, tubes and cassette from the old wheelset, fitted to the new and then pumped up the tyres. Only required a 1/4 turn of the rear barrel adjuster to get the gears working well enough. I can fine tune later.

 

[cyberknight]

replaced the brake calipers as the ones i did the ribble build the QR lever that opens the calipers up to get the wheel in/out doesnt work

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

After refitting the Vittoria Randonneur tyres to the knockabout bike ready for the warmer months it has become clear over the last three rides that they don't actually roll as well as the Marathon Greenguard they were replacing so I've swapped back.

The bike had new wheels at the same time as the Randonneurs - the rear one wasn't as true as I'd have liked on fitting but I thought I'd sort it later. After those three rides it's worse so detensioning and retruing from scratch seemed the best option. I'm really pleased with how that has come out. My good results on the Cytech course weren't a fluke.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Recumbent

A mix of stuff Thu, Fri, short test rides Friday, with longer test ride today

Chain fitted and new bar end rear friction shifter , new cables inner and outer done. Front derailleur height adjusted for new bigger new big ring. Inner ring was too close to middle ring and chain was getting dropped. Removed recently refitted cranks, added spacers between inner chain ring and crank spider, plus replaced chain ring bolts with ones 2mm longer to take account of spacer depth, which sorted it out. Limit screws done front and back. Bracket for cycle star mirror is made of cheese, so cut off and replaced with normal zip tie. Proper bracket fitted to mudguard for chain stay bridge. What a difference and mudguard no longer rubs.

Boom extended a little to increase reach to pedals. Test ride (of hour and quarter) confirms it is good, and I’ll leave it at new extension. Fitted a top tube bag for quick stop snacks in front of stem. If it’s other side my thighs catch it. The bag was stable and didn’t move at all or get caught by my legs on my test ride. Perfect.

Post winter overhaul complete and it is riding sweet and crisp once more.

 

[cyberknight]

I will be looking at the wheel bearings obn a set of rs 11s later , clicky / grinding noise today although they were fine last week

 

[derrick]

New front pads, osf shock absorber, osr suspension arm. I am now free to ride the bike next week.

 

[DaveM77]

Well I was going to fit new tyres and tubes to the wheels I brought off eBay for my triathlon bike but that didn’t happen.
Inner tube out the box, valve into hole. Thought is looked a bit big…… think I got an inner tube to fit a tractor wheel, it was massive!!!!
Inner tube reboxed and sent back to wiggle. New inner tubes now ordered 🙄

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Rotated drop handlebars towards me