What Have You Fettled Today?
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Got the hand planer out at lunchtime, the bathroom door has been sticking a bit - it was installed during summer and has had a good varnish coat before final fitting, but over the last few weeks has started sticking and got progressively worse with the wetter weather.
It doesn't any more.
It doesn't any more.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I am starting to get my turbo bike ready for the coming winter. I will still go out when the weather isn't too bad, but sometimes we get weeks of cold, grey and wet weather here and I will use the turbo instead if/when we do.
First job today was to saw the drops off an old handlebar. I am going to flip it and use what is left to grip onto. Like this...
I have some cheap bar tape on order. When that arrives I will double-wrap the handlebar and install it on the bike.
While I am waiting, I need to find out why the rear tyre keeps going down... How do you get a puncture on a bike that never leaves a turbo trainer!
Maybe it has a faulty tube or valve?PS I forgot to mention that I converted the bike to singlespeed a couple of years ago so there are no hoods to hold on to.
I am starting to get my turbo bike ready for the coming winter. I will still go out when the weather isn't too bad, but sometimes we get weeks of cold, grey and wet weather here and I will use the turbo instead if/when we do.
First job today was to saw the drops off an old handlebar. I am going to flip it and use what is left to grip onto. Like this...
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I have some cheap bar tape on order. When that arrives I will double-wrap the handlebar and install it on the bike.
While I am waiting, I need to find out why the rear tyre keeps going down... How do you get a puncture on a bike that never leaves a turbo trainer!
PS I forgot to mention that I converted the bike to singlespeed a couple of years ago so there are no hoods to hold on to.
I know what you mean about the weather. I wont be going out over winter in the last few years my my Raynaud's has just got too much for me to feel safe and enjoy the ride pain free.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
re Raynauds, I get it terribly and use battery powered heated glove liners from these people.
https://www.blazewear.com/our-gear/gloves/active-glove-liners-black
An expensive but magic cure.
I have some heated gloves for day to day use and they are great just too impractical for on the bike.
Thanks as i've not come across heated liners will check them out.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Having got a flat on the £2 tubular wheels / tyres combo which I've been commuting on since early September the rear's been swapped for a new Prime Stagiare plus new cross tyre. It'll do for winter commuting.
Fredo76
Über Member
- Location
- Española, NM
Oops.
Again....
The front wheel of my NOS tubular pair survived un-dishing it. While re-dishing the rear, although I remembered to loosen as much as tighten most of the way through, that discipline lapsed toward the end. My fault.
The replacement is used and non-matching, but is on, dished, and true.
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
After a beer-related falling-over incident, I needed to get a new spoke on my RS30 back wheel.
Contacted the local mobile bike mechanic. He couldn't get a 294mm bladed straight-pull spoke, or any other, apparently.
Went to the local Shimano service centre. They couldn't get the pukka Shimano replacement, and refused to countenance fitting anything else.
Hit the Bay of E. 8 DB spokes, under £7 delivered.
Also ordered a spoke key.
After a week, it's showing as delivered, but feck-only-knows where the Post Office have delivered it, cos it wasn't to me.
Finally bought one in Decathlon. Fitted the spoke, kinda-sorta trued the wheel. It's about 2mm out. Near enough.
It really shouldn't have been that difficult...
Contacted the local mobile bike mechanic. He couldn't get a 294mm bladed straight-pull spoke, or any other, apparently.
Went to the local Shimano service centre. They couldn't get the pukka Shimano replacement, and refused to countenance fitting anything else.
Hit the Bay of E. 8 DB spokes, under £7 delivered.
Also ordered a spoke key.
After a week, it's showing as delivered, but feck-only-knows where the Post Office have delivered it, cos it wasn't to me.
Finally bought one in Decathlon. Fitted the spoke, kinda-sorta trued the wheel. It's about 2mm out. Near enough.
It really shouldn't have been that difficult...
I do find some of the sellers on eBay very frustrating with their dispatch times, some just take the piss
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
I can't complain about the seller - they posted it promptly, and used a tracked delivery system.
It's Royal Mail that claimed they'd delivered it, when they took it home for all I know...
It's Royal Mail that claimed they'd delivered it, when they took it home for all I know...
I don’t think they do post promptly, they print off the label which triggers a “dispatched” email and then wander down to the post office 4 days later.
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
I have no evidence that my seller did this. If they said they posted it, I'm inclined to believe them.
It won't show as posted until the post office scans the label.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Now't much here.
Ebay Shimano RW5 Road Winter boots are immaculate £40 delivered - I shoved through the washer, as you do, and onto the dryer rack by the de-humidifier.
The original owner didn't use them given the condition of the sole, I can tell. I've got the MTB equivalent version that's added Goretex (MW7 so the next level up), and they have done 5 or 6 years fabulous service getting full of mud. Happy bunny.Very hard getting winter boot as they are usually abused or off the planet on price. Even my hammered MW7 boots are hosed off and cleaned up and dried so they don't stink.
Ebay Shimano RW5 Road Winter boots are immaculate £40 delivered - I shoved through the washer, as you do, and onto the dryer rack by the de-humidifier.
The original owner didn't use them given the condition of the sole, I can tell. I've got the MTB equivalent version that's added Goretex (MW7 so the next level up), and they have done 5 or 6 years fabulous service getting full of mud. Happy bunny.Very hard getting winter boot as they are usually abused or off the planet on price. Even my hammered MW7 boots are hosed off and cleaned up and dried so they don't stink.
