What Have You Fettled Today?

[Vantage]

Saw reports of my type of ebike battery having a serious fault. Opened it up and sure enough mine was at risk of engulfing me in a raging ball of fire. Issue fixed last night.

 

[PeteXXX]

Resoldered the pressure spring onto the circuit board of my Fluxient front light as it has come adrift and was flashing morse code to approaching drivers on last night's ride.

I thought it might pop the cree thingie but it's working fine now

 

[biggs682]

Rear brake pads changed on the tandem

 

[Vantage]

Swapped the bar for a 1" wider bar that was on the leg powered bike. New bar tape, brake cables and brake levers done last night.
A big dollop of sugru came today so that'll be moulded around the battery mount on the ebike to keep it from ripping the bottle cage mounts out. Been slowly dropping the amps to the motor to see what I can get away with.

 

[Elybazza61]

Laid up with a dodgy knee (poss palindromic rheumatism but need to contact a quack on Monday via ask my gp) so about to start lacing a new front dynamo wheel.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Bought and fitted a longer seatpost to my daughter's Trek because as she's got taller, the factory post has reached the limit marker. The frame and wheels are still plenty big enough for her, but it always seems like on these very shallow compact frames the supplied seat post is just so tiny.

 

[Jenkins]

The Lifeline ergonomic grips arriuved from Wiggle this morning and they have been fitted to the new Ribble commuter bike ready to try out on Tuesday's commmute.

 

[HLaB]

A very quick fettle before bed. I put a new tubeless tyre on my rear winter wheel last week and whilst it was pumping up and staying seated, it was losing just a little much pressure overnight. I reckon it's the valve. IIRC I had to tighten it carefully just before I removed it. So I stuck a new valve core in and pumped the tyre up. Hopefully it holds more air tonight or the next task will be removing the tyre and putting new rim tape on.

 

[cyberknight]

lad across the road knocked on the door saying his back brake was making a funny noise and not working sat evening . a quick look and it turned out one of the bolts holding the brake ( disc) was missing .
Luckily i had a spare bolt that fitted it so i replaced it and sent him on his way

 

[HLaB]

A very quick fettle before bed. I put a new tubeless tyre on my rear winter wheel last week and whilst it was pumping up and staying seated, it was losing just a little much pressure overnight. I reckon it's the valve. IIRC I had to tighten it carefully just before I removed it. So I stuck a new valve core in and pumped the tyre up. Hopefully it holds more air tonight or the next task will be removing the tyre and putting new rim tape on.

Still went down a bit too much overnight. I'll try actually riding it as it stayed solid once I pumped it up. Hopefully that'll disperse the sealant, it has with other tyres. If not it'll have to come off for retaping and possibly a new valve entirely 😐

 

[Robxxx7]

Went to change the disc pads on my Canyon Endurance, rears were no problem, fronts were a bit more problematic ... Disc pad retaining screw being made of cheese and just having the head strip was not good.. No budging it... so ordered a replacement screw and will probably have to dremel the old one out when the replacements turn up

 

[si_c]

Went to change the disc pads on my Canyon Endurance, rears were no problem, fronts were a bit more problematic ... Disc pad retaining screw being made of cheese and just having the head strip was not good.. No budging it... so ordered a replacement screw and will probably have to dremel the old one out when the replacements turn up

I switched to using split pins for that reason.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Finally got back to this bike today: it's been sitting on the stand for weeks while the Great Tidying took place for the health and safety inspection tomorrow...

I straightened the wheels and fixed the brakes before I had to go and do something else health and safety related...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Also, I dismantled a Bike Shaped Object that was haunting the back of the bike store for some strange reason.

This made the world a slightly better place.

 

[CXRAndy]

Sorted 12 4.8 metre purlins to be added on my building.

Shortened, notched out to match existing purlins.

Weigh about 50kg each, bit of struggle solo to get onto workhorses - thank goodness they're heavy-duty