What Have You Fettled Today?

[Oldbikefan]

Got the Falcon out of hibernation for a check over, clean and polish

 

[ColinJ]

I discovered that the new stem's steerer clamp is ever-so-slightly shorter than that of the old stem. I had to juggle spacers about between bikes to be able to clamp it on properly. I did that.

I'll complete the job tomorrow (Saturday) if the brake cables arrive as promised. (Amazon Prime haven't let me down yet, but I suppose there is always a first time.)

Prime delivered on time!

Hint: Feed cable inners out from brake levers so outers can be fed back in over them Trying to do it the other way round is a nightmare!

I put my old bar tape on the new handlebar and then my new bar tape over the top so I now have luxuriously thick cushioning under my hands when riding.

**** ABSOLUTELY VITAL SAFETY TIP ****
Whatever you do, don't get distracted when doing safety-critical maintenance jobs...

I went out on a test ride and was proceeding slowly along a flat road when I noticed that the handlebar was a couple of degrees off being perpendicular to the front wheel. Sorry, five degrees. Make that ten degrees. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I realised my mistake and pulled over. Yes - after messing about with the spacers under the stem I had forgotten to retighten the bolts holding it onto the fork steerer, so the stem was no longer in control of the fork! Things could have got very messy on the fast descents later in the ride...

I tightened the stem properly before setting off again!
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The bike feels really good now. I'm looking forward to doing some great rides on it this year.

 

[GeekDadZoid]

Got the Falcon out of hibernation for a check over, clean and polish

That colour 😍😍😍

I've been striping the frame on the mystery Dawes. Interesting find during the strip down is that the serial number is on the drive side dropout despite the face I believe it should be on the none drive side.

Anyway strip down getting there on the frame.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Adjusted 3 speed hub on Brommie. Tested with trip to pub. Gearing no longer slipping in gear 3.

 

[si_c]

When building my Kinesis up a few years ago I'd re-used some of the bolts from the previous broken frameset as I saw no reason not to even though some of the bolts were not in the best condition. I was recently trying to adjust the caliper bolts on the front and over time the upper bolt was becoming progressively more rounded out despite taking a great deal of care with it. Needed to reposition the caliper today for a different wheelset, and the bolt was totally gone, couldn't remove it.

Popped down to Halfords this afternoon to grab a set of hex bolt extractors, worked perfectly first time, so I took the opportunity to go around and remove some other bolts which didn't need removing, but might conceivably become rounded out if I ever needed to remove them in the future.

Been a while since I've had so much fun with a new tool!!

 

[Gunk]

Adjusted 3 speed hub on Brommie. Tested with trip to pub. Gearing no longer slipping in gear 3.

Hope you sunk a couple of pints to celebrate

 

[Juan Kog]

it amazes me how some people think hitting a spanner with a hammer will release it, heat and leverage is sometimes the only way of getting them off, or chucking it away and buying another one off eBay is sometimes the only option.

I always put some copper grease on the threads.

Nothing worse than a steel bolt going into alloy/aluminium . I a;ways use Copper ease on the threads before reassembly . helps stop siezing and easier to take apart next time

Everything I assemble gets a dollop of anti seize grease . In recent years I have been using Alum slip instead of Copa slip where steel and aluminium are assembled together.

 

[fossyant]

Swapped 2 sprockets on my best bike to change from 13 x 24 to 13 x 26 to match the Ribble (both 8 speed) 26 is really the max a Dura Ace 7402 will cope with. B screw all the way in and top jockey close to the 26, but it runs fine, tested on some Welsh hills this afternoon.

I raided the spares bin, and I've original UG Dura Ace sprockets on all but the 26, which is a HG sprocket with the wider spline dremmelled off The 24 that was swapped for a 23 was Dura Ace but the biggest I had.

 

[cyberknight]

rode the "ribble" rebuild to work today , i had recently changed the brake calipers to another set as the originals the QR lever that opens the brakes up had failed .The front brake was slowly working towards the right rim every time i braked and eventually started to rub.
Took the brake off and installed another washer as well as a bit longer bolt that holds it altogether as the one that was on was small almost like one for the rear brake .
Fingered crossed it is sorted

 

[si_c]

Replaced the front pads on the Kinesis, cleaned both the rotors and cassette and then added 60ml sealant to both tyres.

Lubed and cleaned the chain and then went for a ride.

 

[derrick]

Finished putting the bike back together after a repaint,

 

[GeekDadZoid]

Back to a full complement of wheels today. The wheel with the broken spoke was taken to the local community cycle initiative who replaced the broken spoke plus another dodgy one a tried the wheel.

Then the freewheel very kindly sent by @slow scot arrived, so I replaced the broken one and this is now back on the bike.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Cloned our Wi-Fi settings into a power line Wi-Fi range extender. Then linked it to the power line already connected to router by generating a fresh encryption key for them to share. Now plugged in, in a suitable spot, and the previous Wi-Fi dead spot in the house is no more. Wife will be pleased as she normally sits in that dead spot and accuses me of stealing her Wi-Fi.

 

[Svendo]

Put new bearings (6802) in my Superstar Components Volta front hub. Not used any fancy schmancy Bearing pullers, just a hammer and the old bearings as drifts and banged in as far as they'll go. Sympathetically obviously. This hub will probably get rebuilt with a XC270 rim when the Pacenti 23 rim it came with gives out.

 

[8mph]

Started work on this Gary Fisher Alfresco (rescued from the recycling center). Couldn't give it much time but changed the tubes, set the gears up and took it for a quick ride. Pretty impressed with the ride quality considering the cheap parts, I'm hoping to use it for a few camping trips this summer.