What Have You Fettled Today?

[sevenfourate]

Machined a Stainless steel linkage axle, end bolt, and the corresponding washers for both sides - for a full suspension MTB for the good guys at my LBS: and because it was Fubar’d and unobtainable……

 

[rogerzilla]

A fork turned up to suit the Gillott frame (I hope). Extended the fork threads, recut the crown race seat, and realigned the blades. The fork has a crazy short offset of about 28mm (43mm being normal for a road bike) but the head angle of the frame is equally crazy steep at 76° or 77°, so they should work together. Ron Cooper must have made it for a trackie who wanted a road bike. I anticipate monstrous toe overlap but I'm used to that as I do ride track bikes on the road.

It will actually have a SA hub but these track wheels (tubs!) are the right spacing to see how it sits. The fork gives an exactly level top tube when allowing for the headset bottom race.

 

[sevenfourate]

Pre Dunwich Dynamo check, tighten, lube, inflate, dry-fit underseat bag, charge lights. **Remember I’ve done 2000 miles on this bike this year - all without a spare-link in my tool kit 🤦‍♂️ (Now sorted).

Alot of you guys regularly ride 100+ miles. Bit of a milestone here. I’m super excited and can’t wait for Gun the tomorrow night……👌

 

[rogerzilla]

In 2012 I took my filthy 26" wheeled commuting bike and just pumped up the tyres ( Marathon Plus!).

I've never actually had a mechanical on the DD, even the time I rode with latex tubes and put 185psi in the rear tyre (because they lose about 5psi/hr)

 

[C R]

Installed a new hollowtech bottom bracket in my road bike. Happy to report that I didn't need to use a chisel.

 

[ColinJ]

I worked on 2 neglected cheapo folding bikes off eBay for my niece and her boyfriend.

One tube wouldn't hold air. It turned out that it was so badly split that my attempts at a repair didn't hold so I replaced it with one of the 2 spares that I had bought.

The bikes had been left outdoors so there was a fair amount of rust. The chain on one looked completely wrecked but to my amazement there was only one stiff link. I lubed both chains, left the oil to soak in, and later wiped them down to mop up the surplus. I managed to free the stiff link and the chain moved freely.

I adjusted all 4 v-brakes. They are pretty good now.

I checked the gears, which once again surprised me by working pretty well.

The cups in all the hubs are pitted so I made do with just cleaning and regreasing the hubs. The wheels are true and spin okay, but they rumble.

A few other bits and pieces too...

The owners understand that the bikes are pretty low quality but they will do for shortish slow rides on the local bike paths. If they get the taste for cycling I said that I would be happy to advise them if/when they choose to upgrade!

 

[Punkawallah]

Sort of a ‘gateway drug dealer’, then?