What Have You Fettled Today?

[fossyant]

As I seem to be aquiring spare wheelsets, courtessy of building a set recently, and the Super star offers, I need to hang them up. 6 large hooks from Screwfix and all hung up nicely (3 pairs). Just before doing it, my old 27.5" freehub needed a regrease so popped that off the hub, drifted the bearings out, cleaned and marine greased them. They are unlikely to be used for a while, but will need to test ride them before a Pennine Bridleway weekend.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Update on yesterdays bike:

I haven't been working on this because it's a project with a client so it will continue on Monday. I was partly working on this:

This is mostly being built by another client who was sent to me because no-one else had any work for them. Turns out that he can do about 50% of the work himself so I haven't done that much.

 

[GeekDadZoid]

Fitted new bars, the new Grepp bar tape and DMR pedals on the Super Galaxy.

The tape is not quite perfect but it was late and as it's completely reusable I'll tweak it tomorrow.

New bars have a 1cm less reach and about 4cm wider hoping it just gives me a slightly nicer hand position.

 

[Fredo76]

 

[DCBassman]

That's really nice.

 

[sevenfourate]

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Lush. Very nice ! Needs a longer stem though…

 

[DCLane]

As I've a TT next Saturday I pulled the NeilPryde Bayamo TT bike out of storage. And it's not over-wintered well. Cables adjusted, new rear skewer as the existing one wouldn't hold the disc in place and the Shimano 105 5700 front brake kept sticking. In the end I removed it and put a Dura-Ace 7900 front in; all now working. And yes, I know I should have done this before plus a pile of time back on it but life's been hectic.

Also, my 1959 Harry Quinn will be on sale soon, so that's had some adjustments plus two new tan-wall tyres.

 

[ColinJ]

As mentioned elsewhere, I have bought a new chain, bottom bracket, cassette, and chainrings for my MTB. It turns out that...

• The old chain doesn't appear to be particularly worn. I had mislaid my chain checker so I bought a new chain just in case. I have now found the checker and all seems to be well with the original chain.
• The old bottom bracket felt a bit rough at times after I removed it from the frame and turned it with my fingers. Then I looked at it and noticed that the seals were very grubby and draggy. I wiped off as much dirt as I could and dripped some lube round the edges of the seals. I left the BB for a couple of days and tested it again. It seems to rotate smoothly now. I'm wondering if some dirt had just got past the seal and I could feel it getting crunched by the bearings?
• The old cassette and rings have noticeable wear so I bought the new ones. Looking at the old ones though... I have ridden much worse!

If I replaced all the old parts now then yes - I would have a very nice new transmission, but I can pretty much guarantee that the old parts would never make it back from the emergency spares box to being used again. I'm now thinking that perhaps I should have ridden the bike with old parts first and checked to see if everything seemed ok? If yes, then keep those old parts on and ride them until they no longer work properly and THEN replace them with the new parts...

Fettling team, what do you think?

 

[Jameshow]

New chain on the ridgeback and it's Maiden ride. Rides nice and firm but that maybe the deep section radial rc31 wheels. Gears are too high for longer rides as no bail out gear lowest is 39/32 not low enough - triple chainset??!

 

[DCBassman]

triple chainset??!

Sounds like a plan. Put a Spa 28t on the inner, job done. Chainset with 110BCD, 130 is too limiting. My Scott has a 130BCD Ritchey set, and that limits the middle ring to 38t. If you live somewhere flat, it doesn't matter so much, but here's lumpy!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

New chain on the ridgeback and it's Maiden ride. Rides nice and firm but that maybe the deep section radial rc31 wheels. Gears are too high for longer rides as no bail out gear lowest is 39/32 not low enough - triple chainset??!

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Triples cheap as chips as well as no longer in fashion

 

[GeekDadZoid]

God some sunshine today, so had a shed rearrange. Not sure it went back in any different.

 

[sevenfourate]

God some sunshine today, so had a shed rearrange. Not sure it went back in any different.


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THATS a collection ! 😳

 

[GeekDadZoid]

THATS a collection ! 😳

I would like to say it was all of them, but there is at least 3 more and you probably cant see some of the ones at the back too :-/

Oh and plus the new frame and wheels I have for a build.

 

[ColinJ]

Gears are too high for longer rides as no bail out gear lowest is 39/32 not low enough - triple chainset??!

Did you notice the gears on my CAAD5 when we rode together?

I had exactly the same gearing on my CAAD5 and was finding 39/29 a bit OTT for the steep climbs that I often encounter in this area. The first change was to get hold of some 12-30 cassettes. I'm not sure if Campagnolo still make them, but the 30 gives only a 3.4% reduction vs the 29 anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

I discovered that my 10-speed rear shifter is quite happy working with a triple chainset so I bought THIS ONE from Spa cycles. My rear mech had enough capacity to work with the change as well. I fitted an Ultegra bottom bracket to suit the new chainset.

I went for the 48/38/28 chainset so my bottom gear is now 28/30, more than 30% lower. It makes all the difference on the steep stuff. My top gear is very slightly lower, but no problem - I don't generally ride around at 50+ kph (except downhill) and I can always freewheel when I start spinning out.

My front mech didn't quite move far enough to shift to the 3rd ring because a metal tab pushed up against the seat tube. I managed to file enough off to overcome the problem.

When the middle ring wore out I replaced it with a 36. That is really nice with a 12-30 cassette. I can stay on the middle ring most of the time and the changes between the rings feel better spaced.

My 'triplised' bike...
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