What Have You Fettled Today?

[DCLane]

Wheel and brake pad swap time on son no. 2's Cervelo S3 for a race today moving from aluminium to carbon wheels. It's not quite warm enough for the other bikes to make the switch so they're staying on aluminium.

Boardman cross bike finished cleaning and tidying.

I'll spend a bit of time this afternoon attempting to sort the Olagnero frameset that's got a massively stuck seatpost. Current methods just aren't working so it'll be a hacksaw job, taking lots of time.

 

[Gunk]

All done, Ultegra 6600 groupset and Mavic Aksium Race wheelset, it’s come together nicely. I particularly like the internal cable routing. Makes it look very clean

 

[fossyant]

New wheels and brake pads for the commuter MTB. The rear Mavic Crossride had worn out the rear rim and it's just started to split. Replaced with a pair of Decathlon wheels for £85.

 

[harlechjoe]

Dry lube mid ride to quieten my wife’s squeaky chain. Silence is golden.

Brilliant - I'll try it on my wife this afternoon

 

[numbnuts]

24 mince pies

 

[T4tomo]

Bar tape for the OH, I like the bike ribbon drops stuff.

 

[si_c]

Swapped the tyres on my spare wheelset for the Kinesis with newer (but still used) ones as the sidewalls were starting to crack (not been used for a while).

I then replaced the rear derailleur cable as it was kinked and not feeding through the shifter properly. A job of just 10 minutes despite the dreaded internal cabling that seems to cause so much hassle (pro tip: feed a line of cable housing up the existing cable and then you can just run the new inner through that and remove it, no faffing with cotton and hoovers).

 

[Svendo]

Disassembled the plate axle on my good bike da9000 rear derailleur. It wasn’t springing back properly. Found it very dried and surface corrosion due to having been used for winter commuting. Scrubbed, decorroded and massively lubed. All gone back fine. Didn’t break the chain just I did the pulley wheels to remove from the bike. Quite a scary job, but went a lot easier using the DM from tech docs and YouTube videos of similar Shimano derailleurs. Good I don’t have to do the B-Axle as that looks much more involved!

 

[Sallar55]

Thank you for posting this👍
With the help of a piece of old rubber eraser and insulation tape I now don’t have to use an old pen top to turn on my edge 1000.
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If your rubber cover has split I used to use the pen as above, then the switch fell apart. An easy fix is just use silicon to seal the hole. Almost bought another Edge 1000 but when you plug in a USB lead it switches on the unit. Goes off about 5mins after a ride is uploaded. I carry a little lipstick type powerpack to power up if needed. Someone played with the buttons and the ride uploaded and turned off at a cafe stop.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Just a 'quick-fix at work

I decided to ride to work via NewLands Woods, in the opposite direction to my ride home the other day
Not far into the Woods, just past the ruinous Stable-Block, I heard a clatter & then a rattle

I can only assume that a stick/small branch got caught up in the spokes & broke the -already repaired- mudguard mount??


I put up with the clattering on the ride to work, particularly over the Trash Screen Bridge & the speed-humps on the ‘towpath’, actually an access road to moorings & 'Calder Row' (a row of terraced houses originally built by the canal company

Once at work, I took a photograph, to help explain my situation

Down into the 'basement', and a ‘begging visit’ to Medical Physics/EMBE saw me given a couple of cable-ties
Job done!

 

[palinurus]

For ages our back door hasn't closed properly- it would close and lock, but there was a bit of a gap and the more secure locking mechanism wouldn't engage. For some reason while waiting for the kettle to boil I had a little play with a screwdriver and moved one of the locking points a little inward, probably two minutes work, and now it's fine.

For about two years I've been thinking 'must get someone in to look at that'

Also I repaired a seam that had come apart on my old Ortlieb courier bag with Shoe Goo.

 

[palinurus]

If your rubber cover has split I used to use the pen as above, then the switch fell apart. An easy fix is just use silicon to seal the hole. Almost bought another Edge 1000 but when you plug in a USB lead it switches on the unit. Goes off about 5mins after a ride is uploaded. I carry a little lipstick type powerpack to power up if needed. Someone played with the buttons and the ride uploaded and turned off at a cafe stop. View attachment 637676

Nice coaster.

 

[cyberknight]

Attempting to replace a no name chainset i had on the commuter today, found out the threads are made of cheese as the crank puller has completely stripped them
geuss its a trip to the LBS to get the cranks off or leave it till the BB needs changing ?

 

[fossyant]

Attempting to replace a no name chainset i had on the commuter today, found out the threads are made of cheese as the crank puller has completely stripped them
geuss its a trip to the LBS to get the cranks off or leave it till the BB needs changing ?

Are you getting rid ? - angle grinder, hacksaw or dremmel. It will come off if you cut a slot into the crank arm where the square taper is.

 

[cyberknight]

Are you getting rid ? - angle grinder, hacksaw or dremmel. It will come off if you cut a slot into the crank arm where the square taper is.

yes i am, the crank is so flexy i get rub on the FD when standing .I have replaced the chainring with a decent stronglight one and it still does it .