What Have You Fettled Today?

[Andy in Germany]

A client who is a very experienced bike wrench offered to do a couple of training sessions for us. Today I arranged for him to teach us about Magura brakes, so we had a couple of hours dismantling and resetting some on a bike in for repair.

Also, I've gone and started refurbishing a bike again:

This is the "commuter" bike, which spent a lot of its life chained to various lampposts in Stuttgart looking too tatty to get stolen. It really needed some TLC; apart from anything else, the middle chainwheel was badly worn, but also it the paint was cracking and getting rusty, so I'm using it as a test bed for Spray.Bike paints before trying them on bikes I'll be using more often. Tomorrow I'll be testing the claim that I only need one can to paint the bike...

 

[biggs682]

Swapped saddles and peddles on the galaxy and fitted a saddle and some peddles to the Pinnacle

 

[Fredo76]

Remounted the kickstand on Bella so my heel won't hit it.

 

[Gunk]

Remounted the kickstand on Bella so my heel won't hit it.

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I always feel queasy when see a bike being worked on upside down

 

[Windle]

I always feel queasy when see a bike being worked on upside down

Especially when someone's up-ended it on the pavement and will inevitably scuff the crap out of the saddle & hoods .
Luckily my last p#nct@re was right next to some railings so I just hung the back of the bike on them by the saddle to take the rear wheel out .

 

[cyberknight]

dang sight easier to turn the bike upside down if your trying to fix punctures say at 1 am when its pissing it down
Im careful not to scratch hoods or saddle and do try to find a bit of grass if i can though.

Only issue i have with @Fredo76 is if they try to ride it that way up

 

[C R]

Especially when someone's up-ended it on the pavement and will inevitably scuff the crap out of the saddle & hoods .
Luckily my last p#nct@re was right next to some railings so I just hung the back of the bike on them by the saddle to take the rear wheel out .

Thus potentially scratching the frame...

 

[T4tomo]

at ease chaps, its on carpet.....

white bar tape though......

 

[GuyBoden]

Jacques Anquetil. How to remove a rear wheel?

 

[Fredo76]

I figured y'all could handle it without trigger warnings.

Reminds me of my Raleigh 3-speed days, actually!

 

[Andy in Germany]

Just spend a load of my boss's money on stuff for the workshop, does that count?

 

[8mph]

I've had a rattling noise coming from the lower jockey wheel on my new road bike. I realigned the rear mech hanger using a spare rear wheel, which seems to have sorted the issue.

 

[Gunk]

Another bike being worked on upside down

 

[Windle]

Another bike being worked on upside down

To be fair, that one will only end up with grass skids, or possibly squashed worms .

 

[fossyant]

Swapped the commuter bike. I think I've either a loose freehub or a snapped axel on my commuter. Just been on ebay and ordered a used M737 XT hub for £15, so I can strip it for spares, just in case. Most are selling for £30 plus. I bought a pair of M737 hubs at the start of the year and built them into wheels, so hope this is just a loose freehub.