What Have You Fettled Today?

[HLaB]

My first fettle was to clean and lubed my gravel bike after today's ride.
My second fettle was to clean my cleats so I could get them loose enough to shift by hand then re- tighten (they had been loose enough to rotate out of position)
My third fettle was to prepare my commuting bike. It had been in storage in a mates garage since before my cancer op in April 2019. It got treated to a clean and lube too and the tyres pumped up (I pump to circa 90 psi and in all that time there was still 60psi in the rear and 50psi in the front. I also recalled it's right pedal nose is worn so I put another pair on. At the same time I put a new battery in the cadence meter. I'll take it for a test ride tomorrow but it looks good and everything is functioning when wheeling it across the car park.

 

[geocycle]

A classic small job that escalated. The Spa needed a new chain. I have a pair of standard wheels with a part worn cassette that does the ‘back half’ of a chain‘s life. So swapped out the wheels and put the nicer tubeless pair back on. These needed sealant refill. Also had a small tick from BB area so took opportunity to remove and re grease chaiinset and BB. Then noticed the rear blocks needed changing so for first time ever managed to change the pads in situ Without removing the shoe. Adjusted the brake and snapped a few threads in the cable so replaced that as well. Checked gears and tweaked derailleur slightly. Finally shortened and fitted new chain!
At least it’s still raining so no ride time lost on my day off.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 31st

Over the past few rides, the free-hub has been misbehaving by intermittently not engaging................. invariably at a junction!!
I've stripped the wheel down & left it for some oil to work its way through to the Pawls

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I couldn't get the free-hub body off, & can't remember how it went on, so just hoping (at the moment) that the oil leaches through
Sods Law invoked itself, as with the wheel out, I couldn't get it to reproduce the none-engagement

Old/tattered race (running) t-shirts around the hub, to try & prevent any contamination of the disc, as any oil passes through

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Riding to work on Sunday, it was atrocious, to the point that I had to walk up Stanley Hill (1-in-12)
Likewise coming home I chose the flattest route, so partially along the (Aire & Calder Navigation) Canal towpath
I managed most of the river (Calder) banking & NewLands Woods, barring the last little slope

On arrival, after changing & making tea, I took it apart again
The splines (serrations?) on the actual hub were worn & shiney, so life-expired??

I decided a new wheel was required
Finding a 6-bolt hub was harder than I thought!
A work collegue (who's a 'thorper) suggested Hope-Tech, which seemed a nice idea, till I looked at the price for a pair

Thus yesterday, meant getting its predecessor out of the shed, for the ride to work (I was on a 10:00 - 17:00, so no need to swap lights onto iI
Ie, this;


As the CGR's mainly a work-bike now, I don't get out as much as I'd like to, for a longer ride, I just ordered a pair of 'Never Heard Of Them!' wheels from Amazon
(ordered on Sunday evening, they were here when I got home at 14:30)
The longest part of the swap-over was finding my bottle of thread-lock for the disc-bolts

 

[Fredo76]

Q: What's our vector, Victor?





A: We have clearance, Clarence!

I couldn't fit my 7-speed freewheel on my '80s vintage Specialized training wheels, so I bought a new rear wheel. Now it fits, barely. Had to put a washer under the derailleur to keep the bolt from sticking out. Proper part (hopefully) is ordered.

With this wheel, my 18-speed is now a 21-speed. I collect speeds...

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 6th
Not much!

After installing the new wheels that arrived yesterday, & riding to work on in this morning, all seems good

I did come back along the river (Calder) bank, & through NewLands Woods, it was quite dry, with just a couple of puddles

I decided to wash it
Chain-rings off; I know that one threading was a bit suspect, & I was careful the last time I had the rings off (about a fortnight ago), but it has lost that bolt
Thankfully, I have a spare chainset, that I'd bought to get an inner-ring, after previously bending one, & it was cheaper to buy the entire unit, than a separate Tiagra '34' ring at the time, so it got a new '50' tooth ring

 

[si_c]

Thankfully, I have a spare chainset, that I'd bought to get an inner-ring, after previously bending one, & it was cheaper to buy the entire unit, than a separate Tiagra '34' ring at the time, so it got a new '50' tooth ring

I had the same problem a couple of years ago, replacing the inner ring on Tiagra was ludicriously expensive, so I replaced it with a Sora R3000 inner ring - there is no difference that I could discern and cost less than a tenner. That same 34t ring is now doing service with a 105 chainset that I changed from 52/36 to 50/34 and I can't tell any difference on that either.

 

[fraz101]

Spent a few hours attempting to re seat a tubeless tyre.

Ended up at the LBS to borrow his compressor.

Came home and polished and waxed my frame with the wheels off.

 

[Oldhippy]

Spent a few hours attempting to re seat a tubeless tyre.

Ended up at the LBS to borrow his compressor.

Came home and polished and waxed my frame with the wheels off.

You waxed your frame! Why?

 

[fraz101]

You waxed your frame! Why?

Well I’m into car detailing and have many polishes and waxes.

I enjoy the process and my frame paintwork is squeaky clean,shiny and water will bead off now 😂

 

[Gunk]

Well I’m into car detailing and have many polishes and waxes.

I enjoy the process and my frame paintwork is squeaky clean,shiny and water will bead off now 😂

what, you ride it in the rain 😮

 

[fraz101]

what, you ride it in the rain 😮

Of course not! 😊

 

[GeekDadZoid]

Well I’m into car detailing and have many polishes and waxes.

I enjoy the process and my frame paintwork is squeaky clean,shiny and water will bead off now 😂

I've done a basic wax on my Brompton a few times and it seemed to make quick cleans easier. My biggest issue is getting it clean enough to wax, I am rubbish at it.

My mate wanted to swap his Brompton pedals so brought it and them round. I made him do it himself so he learnt but we came a cropper with the left pedal which would not loosen. If it was my bike I would probably have given it a bit of Elly with an breaker bar, but being his less that a year old electric brompton, I told him to ask the shop we both bought our Bromptons from. He gets all his work done there and is a good customer so I am sure they will just do it when he gets his next service. (Ps I do know which was to loosen the pedal, even if I do second guess myself every time)

 

[fraz101]

I've done a basic wax on my Brompton a few times and it seemed to make quick cleans easier. My biggest issue is getting it clean enough to wax, I am rubbish at it.

waxing and clean paintwork definitely makes cleaning dirt off much easier.

 

[bikingdad90]

@GeekDadZoid good shout asking him to take it into the shop. My dads Merida ride carbon frame has a stuck flat pedal on the drive side, it will not budge with a pedal spanner or pedal spanner and a mallet to “shock” the bond. I reckon it was cross threaded on factory installation rather than the less likely option of just done up ludicrously over tight as the left hand pedal came off easily.

It’s an Ultegra chainset and drive side that is stuck, the bike shop he bought it from went bust (for reasons relating to naughtiness at another business site and getting caught by officials) so if the chainset is knackered it’s an expensive fix!

 

[GeekDadZoid]

@GeekDadZoid good shout asking him to take it into the shop. My dads Merida ride carbon frame has a stuck flat pedal on the drive side, it will not budge with a pedal spanner or pedal spanner and a mallet to “shock” the bond. I reckon it was cross threaded on factory installation rather than the less likely option of just done up ludicrously over tight as the left hand pedal came off easily.

It’s an Ultegra chainset and drive side that is stuck, the bike shop he bought it from went bust (for reasons relating to naughtiness at another business site and getting caught by officials) so if the chainset is knackered it’s an expensive fix!

One of the issues we had was that the folding pedal on the brompton only has the option of using a hex key to remove it, the other side took a pedal spanner and was removed in short order.

Did show to me I really need some hex bits for my socket set, I only have them for my torque wrench.