What Have You Fettled Today?

[ianrauk]

Stripped down the rear hub (Shimano) and replaced the ball bearings, regreased & reassembled. Coupled with a good clean with hot water and car shampoo, relubing the chain and general sorting out the bike rides like new now !

I'll strip, clean & relube the BB, headset and front hub when winter's out of the way.

There's something so very satisfying about stripping down, cleaning and rebuilding hubs.

 

[Arjimlad]

Yup - especially when they run so smooth and have no play in them when reassembling !

And because the bike shop chap told me I'd be better having them do it .. underestimating the size of my biggest allen key.

 

[ianrauk]

Yup - especially when they run so smooth and have no play in them when reassembling !

And because the bike shop chap told me I'd be better having them do it .. underestimating the size of my biggest allen key.

I bought one of these to help get the ball bearings out of the hub.
BAM.. all the BB's in one go

 

[thegravestoneman]

Retentioned and True'd front wheel on Saracen road bike after finding quiet a few loose spokes. Regreased and oiled all bearings and chain as needed, Finished off with a damn good polish and autosol on the ally bits. All in all not too bad for something that has been in storage since the eighties. Just need to soak the Brooks pro in neatsfoot oil and find some new hoods for the brake levers as they have gone a bit flaky. Not to sure about the tubs though they seem to hold pressure and the rubber hasn't gone hard but I might just replace them anyway, so much for keeping my costs down, what with having to get a whole new set of wally gear too, lucky I still have my old Duegi's so I don't have to get new pedals and shoes.

 

[Arjimlad]

I bought one of these to help get the ball bearings out of the hub.
BAM.. all the BB's in one go

Dammit - I have one just like that - with a little LED light on the end too - use it for picking up shotgun cartridges when they eject into a prickly bush - didn't think to use it on this job.

I did make the mistake of putting all the BBs back in before attempting to reattach the freewheel

I used a magnetised screwdriver though & got on OK. Will use the magnety thing next time though !

Thanks for the tip !

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Taken the studded tyres off

Is this wise?
I fell flat on my bum today, slipped on ice, while walking to the post box up the road!

 

[musa]

Gave bike a wash finally was overdue - but its rained

 

[Psycolist]

After waking up to rain, incey wincey spider climbed the spout, and out came the sun at about 11, took advantage and headed out on one of my favourite rides. Many many fields and roads underwater. After a couple of hours, returned home with an even filthier bike than i went out with. So with the sun still shining, i've just spent another couple of hours giving the bike a thorough clean, wheels and brakes off, chain and both derailleurs off, frame and forks a good wash and scrub up, dried off and a bit of a polish up. Then had a sit down at the wokbench while i cleaned both derailleurs, oil bath for the jockies, grit and filth in every little nook and krany. The chain however looked ok, gave it a close look and didnt feel any grit or muck, it is only 4 weeks old, so left it alone. The brakes really only needed a wipe over, so a quick bit af grease on the bosses, and they went back on. The now clean derailleurs also re-fitted, some WD40 on the cables so it runs into the inners from both ends while theres a bit of slack and reconnect all four. Then the chain. I felt at this point, that i had had enough, so I put the wheels back on, gave the rims and spokes a quick wipe over and came indoors and flopped into the armchair where Mrs Psycolist provided me with a nice cuppa. WHY CANT EVERY DAY BE LIKE THIS and blow me down, m'granchildren have just pulled up on the drive

 

[ianrauk]

I fettled 2 of TTCycles bikes.
Fitted front derailleur, new gear cable and new brake cables and trued the rear wheel on the one bike.
Checked the BB on the other bike, one of the cup's has that horrid grinding feeling, so new cups needed.

 

[potsy]

Is this wise?
I fell flat on my bum today, slipped on ice, while walking to the post box up the road!

*must not laugh*

New chain I fitted yesterday was skipping on todays test ride, looks like it's new cassette time.
At least I have one 'in stock'

 

[derrick]

I cleaned the oven does that count, it was a bit harder than cleaning the bikes.
I earned some brownie points

 

[mangid]

Replaced BB, glad I have a long breaker bar, could hardly turn the BB by hand once I had the pedals :-(

Then took forks off, and found this:

All that remains of the split crown race :-)

 

[smokeysmoo]

Checked the Fuji over and changed the tyres before the new owner collected it

Then consoled myself by sticking my newly acquired DA chainset on the CAAD

Also fettled a sticky headset on Miss Smoo's Hello Kitty scooter.

 

[potsy]

New chain I fitted yesterday was skipping on todays test ride, looks like it's new cassette time.
At least I have one 'in stock'

Can't get the old one off, have replaced them on the Secteur no problem bit this one on the Tricross will not budge.
Left it soaking in some 'stuff' for a while and will have another go later, failing that I'll have to either take it to the lbs to loosen for me or risk riding it to work as is and get myself a extending bar from there to use stoopid bike.

 

[wisdom]

I too cleaned the oven,brownie points for mee too