What Have You Fettled Today?

[EckyH]

Changed the original foam grips of the Brompton to ergonomic Brooks Cambium as some kind of reward, because before that I installed the dynamo front light and the rear light.
Golly gosh...
Fortunately there is the documentation for the cable routing. With several pages. If you plan to install dynamo lighting on a Brompton, I highly recommend to read the documentation, read it again and then follow the instructions literally.

E.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Changed the original foam grips of the Brompton to ergonomic Brooks Cambium as some kind of reward, because before that I installed the dynamo front light and the rear light.
Golly gosh...
Fortunately there is the documentation for the cable routing. With several pages. If you plan to install dynamo lighting on a Brompton, I highly recommend to read the documentation, read it again and then follow the instructions literally.

E.

Having bought a Brompton with dynamo lights fitted I can well appreciate what you mean.

 

[Gwylan]

Saddle now at the correct height. Went for nice 20k in the sunshine to test

 

[Gillstay]

Got a old Raleigh kids bike for a friends granddaughter and have changed the wheels to alloy rims, added another gear, and serviced most of it.

Need to fit and adjust a few bits to be more child friendly. Takes me back to when I did it for my kids.

 

[cyberknight]

new chainset installed and wheel trued on the giant, added some spd pedals so ready for a test ride

 

[dicko]

Fed up with working on the bike either propped up or on its stand and wobbling about, I decided to put to use some of the spare decking I had left over. I’m glad to say it took under an hour and it works just fine.

 

[Bristolian]

Fitted my new Bontrager Aeolus Comp saddle. Hoping for more comfortable rides in the future.

 

[Gwylan]

I have been vain and indolent and there is no fettling in me.

 

[chriswoody]

Made a start on a 200 hour service for the Rockshock fork on my mountain bike. The service entails a full strip down and as well as cleaning and re-greasing, you need to replace all the O rings and seals. I laid out the new seals on the right and slowly added the old ones to the pile on the left. The dust wiper seals on the lower leg were an absolute pain to remove and the new ones even more problematic to fit. Got there in the end though.

 

[Gillstay]

Bought a Marin bike for my partner in the hope it may suit her better. It was cheap and has been sat around,

but I thought it was not too bad.

Unfortunately the first clue was when I took the gear changer cover off and a spider big enough to go `donk when it hit the floor, fell out.

 

[Gillstay]

The second clue was that the headstock is stuck. Very stuck. Sigh. Annoyingly I checked the seat post before I bought it.

 

[FrankCrank]

Ignore - won't delete!

 

[FrankCrank]

The second clue was that the headstock is stuck. Very stuck. Sigh. Annoyingly I checked the seat post before I bought it.

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On the bright side, imagine the weight saving now that stowaway spider's been evicted

 

[FrankCrank]

Fitted some new faux leather grips on the R20, good colour match with the saddle

 

[tinywheels]

On the bright side, imagine the weight saving now that stowaway spider's been evicted

sounds like a no fault eviction!
The spiders probably getting lawyers up right now.