TP's Commuter Maintenance

[Tin Pot]

Tyres - do I need to do anything with these?

 

[Milkfloat]

Tyres - do I need to do anything with these?

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Personally I would replace them.

 

[cosmicbike]

Tyres - do I need to do anything with these?

Dig the bits out, carefully.

If the cut is right through the tyre then it's a replacement job IMO..

 

[Tin Pot]

..will start digging tomorrow, cheers.

 

[Tin Pot]

Removed and cleaned up the jockey wheels - just because it looked like it needed doing and has never been done before:

After:

It's worth checking where the top jockey wheel goes before reassembling. As you pull the loose derailleur down to fit it back together thats the alignment for too and bottom (when loose the bottom jockey rises back and above, so it's not immediately obvious).

There's a lot of the the same gunk in the chain, but I didn't want to degrease the chain so this may be a bit of a waste of time for me

 

[raleighnut]

Removed and cleaned up the jockey wheels - just because it looked like it needed doing and has never been done before:

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After:
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It's worth checking where the top jockey wheel goes before reassembling. As you pull the loose derailleur down to fit it back together thats the alignment for too and bottom (when loose the bottom jockey rises back and above, so it's not immediately obvious).

There's a lot of the the same gunk in the chain, but I didn't want to degrease the chain so this may be a bit of a waste of time for me

At least they label the lower pulley so you don't put them back together the wrong way round. DAMHIKT

 

[Pat "5mph"]

@Tin Pot if @ianrauk see this thread he will have a fit
Actually I am a bit miffed too: if I had the cycling skills to deserve Campagnolo I would never stop cleaning the bike.
Actually, probably I would never ride it for fear of dirtying it!

 

[Milkfloat]

I thought you said that you cleaned them, surely you mean you just rubbed an oily rag on them?

 

[jim55]

White spirit is a really good cheap degreaser

 

[Tin Pot]

I used real degreaser and scrubbed for at least, erm, a minute or two, with a bike specific brush.

I'm trying @Pat "5mph" , honest(!)

 

[jim55]

Short of buying a new chain ( which in this case I would ) , get an empty plastic bottle ( big bottle of coke or something ) once it's empty put in a good bit of white spirit , insert dirty chain ( put lid on bottle obv ) and a good steep/shake , refit. And lube once it's looking ok , this will dissolve every bit of grease/ gunk on it , so lube it well and make sure it's bone dry before u relube

 

[Tin Pot]

Short of buying a new chain ( which in this case I would ) , get an empty plastic bottle ( big bottle of coke or something ) once it's empty put in a good bit of white spirit , insert dirty chain ( put lid on bottle obv ) and a good steep/shake , refit. And lube once it's looking ok , this will dissolve every bit of grease/ gunk on it , so lube it well and make sure it's bone dry before u relube

I sorted the chain out months ago!

 

[Milkfloat]

I sorted the chain out months ago!

As well as you sorted the jockey wheels?

 

[Tin Pot]

Not had much to do over summer but it's turned to crap again in the poor weather

Plus the right shifter failed on the turbo.

So time to get my act together again:

So step one: clean this mother up!

Degreaser, soapy water, rags, brushes and lots and lots of scrubbing and it's started to show some beauty again.

Step two: recable front brake and rear derailleur.
Quite a lot fiddly getting the cable outlets to the right length and taping them in place in taping and recutting, threading ...its a bit of a pain.

Step three: fit new shifter.

Not so bad once you understand the screw mechanism that tightens the bracket to hold the shifter in place. Just need a torque 25 bit and thumb strength to fold the rubber out of the way of the screw.

Step four: replace bar tape.

Done this three times now so pretty easy.

3hrs of fettling and then it got too cold and dark!

 

[Tin Pot]

Following the rear derailleur clunking, a few changes in play