What Have You Fettled Today?

[chriswoody]

The gear change on the mountain bike has been a bit off recently, no matter what I tried, so I decided to pick up a SRAM B gap alignment tool for €3. It's a deceptively simple tool that makes aligning the derailleur an absolute doddle. Sure enough it was out by a couple of mm, so we soon had it re-aligned and shifting sweetly again.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Noticed MTB tyre flat in the garage.

Culprit found and expelled.

 

[ColinJ]

My wheel rims have been suffering the past couple of wintry weeks because...

• They had got very greasy from dirty roads so the brakes have not been working properly, which meant that I had to brake harder than usual, for longer than usual and ...
• ... wet salty grit makes a very good grinding paste!

I scrubbed the rims today and treated the bike to a good clean while I was at it. I then nipped out to do a quick lumpy 11 km Tour de Tod and found that my brakes work again, and no longer sound like they are killing my wheels!

PS But it would still be better to get my CAADX sorted out so I can benefit from its excellent mudguards and disk brakes.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I pumped my tyres this morning.

 

[HLaB]

Cleaned my commuter/winter bike so I can take the rear wheel out without too much mess before trying to figure out another fettle/ bodge. My mud guard is sandwiched either side at the bottom bracket stay by a clip that goes through it either side and joins. That clip is no longer staying together which makes for a very rattly ride and whilst it probably psychological, it feels energy draining.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Cleaned my commuter/winter bike so I can take the rear wheel out without too much mess before trying to figure out another fettle/ bodge. My mud guard is sandwiched either side at the bottom bracket stay by a clip that goes through it either side and joins. That clip is no longer staying together which makes for a very rattly ride and whilst it probably psychological, it feels energy draining.

If you put a picture up, maybe people here can help figure a bodge.

 

[HLaB]

If you put a picture up, maybe we people here can help figure a bodge.

I stuck in a bit of a rubber wrist band (the blue bit) but that fouls the tyre but hopefully it done enough temporary to force the tabs through the guard.

The outside

Edit: if the clip doesn't stay in place, I think I will try similar again but cut the rubber wrists band further 🤔

 

[cyberknight]

The gears on the boardman alloy were a bit iffy so had a go at indexing and realized that the cable needs replacing so that bike is sidelined.
Broken spoke on the commuter , luckily i had a wheel thats toast that has the same spokes so i cannibalized that to fix it .
Got the Giant out to set it up for tomorrow and realized the RD cage was slightly bent causing chain rub so i was playing with it after taking the jockey wheel out and promptly lost one of the metal plates off it , cue much searching
I tried to use one off a sram bit i had in spares but realized sram have a smaller size hole so in the end i had to open a brand new RD i had in spares to pinch that .
After all that i moved the bike and the original fell off it from some where !!!

 

[a.twiddler]

Sometimes, when what you think will be a 2 minute adjustment turns into an afternoon's work, you end up wishing you'd left things alone!

 

[cyberknight]

Sometimes, when what you think will be a 2 minute adjustment turns into an afternoon's work, you end up wishing you'd left things alone!

indeed i was using suitable words to display my feeling in general including slinging a seatpost across the garden

 

[Punkawallah]

Sometimes, when what you think will be a 2 minute adjustment turns into an afternoon's work, you end up wishing you'd left things alone!

There are two words in the English language that terrify me - 'just', and 'only'.
As in: 'it's only a ten minute job', or 'it will only take half a day''.

 

[Fredo76]

Decided to run Fredo as a six-speed rear wheel to free up a 7-speed rear wheel for Blue Bella. Adjusted the derailleur limits and gave the bike a dusting and wipe-down, ready to ride again. Swapped the matching front wheel, too.

Removed the Campagnolo Racing Triple crankset from Bella and put the Sugino back on. Will probably sell the Racing T, which was bought for Blue Bella, but causes toe overlap at 175mm.

Put Fredo's 7-speed wheel on Blue Bella, and got the MicroNew rear derailleur replaced with the Tourney, and tuned so it shifts perfectly. Removed a stuck handlebar plug, and got the end of the bar tape tucked in properly. Much better. If I can wrap the left bar as well as the right one, she'll be done and ready for a test ride tomorrow.

 

[EckyH]

There are two words in the English language that terrify me - 'just', and 'only'.
As in: 'it's only a ten minute job', or 'it will only take half a day''.

In German we have a phrase with similar meaning as "just": "mal eben schnell".
As far as I know language tends to become efficient over time. Therefore an English four letter word in comparison to three German words could be an indication that that "Could you just...?" is far more often the case in the UK than in Germany.

E.

 

[Gunk]

There are two words in the English language that terrify me - 'just', and 'only'.
As in: 'it's only a ten minute job', or 'it will only take half a day''.

I call it a “just” job, my wife is brilliant at asking me to do them “could you just”

 

[Andy in Germany]

There are two words in the English language that terrify me - 'just', and 'only'.
As in: 'it's only a ten minute job', or 'it will only take half a day''.

In German we have a phrase with similar meaning as "just": "mal eben schnell".
As far as I know language tends to become efficient over time. Therefore an English four letter word in comparison to three German words could be an indication that that "Could you just...?" is far more often the case in the UK than in Germany.

E.

The German word that terrifies me is geschwind, which roughly translates as "quick". "Kannst du geschwind..." literally means "Can you quickly..." but it implies that a job will be quick and easy, which you know it never will.

My old boss was terrible for it, because he always assumed that "geschwind" meant a couple of minutes, regardless of whether it was screwing two bits of wood together, or installing furniture in a house which would inevitably turn out not to fit the measurements he'd provided.