What Have You Fettled Today?

[roubaixtuesday]

Had to adjust gears on the way home and discovered this! Can't remember last time a cable failed other than at shifter.

All now sorted for tomorrow's commute.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Need the hybrid for tomorrow, so pedals taken off the ebike and back on to the hybrid... Really must find my old pair of Wellgo flat pedals or order something cheap like a pair of DMR v6s!

Also had the big dilemma of what tyre to put on the hybrid front wheel, having nicked the Marathon Supremes off the hybrid last week. Was tempted to fit the 2.35" G One Speed, but went with one of my 38mm Marathon Cross that still have loads of life left... Fitted so easily within two minutes with thumbs by creating slack for last ~10" section.

 

[VinSumRox]

Had to adjust gears on the way home and discovered this! Can't remember last time a cable failed other than at shifter.

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All now sorted for tomorrow's commute.

My OH has a Tiagra RD and this wears the cable coz of the angle it bends it at. Also had one go recently at the inline cable adjuster.

 

[Gillstay]

Decided I did not like the heavy steering with the large dia front wheel so dropped down a size and quite pleased.
May well drop the back one a well.

 

[ColinJ]

I noticed that the pressure in the front tyre of my 6-speed bike seemed to have dropped significantly. I thought that it must have a slow puncture so I took a look at it. I had ridden over a patch of glass on my last ride and I thought that might have caused the problem. Sure enough, I did find some tiny pieces of glass embedded in the tyre. They had not penetrated through to the tube but obviously I removed them before they could. I did find one hole through to the tube, but (curiously!) no hole in the tube itself there. In fact, the tube did not appear to have any holes in it! I put some air in it and held it under water - no bubbles. I have left it all day and it hasn't gone down. Maybe it has an absolutely tiny hole which only opens up at high pressures? Anyway, to be on the safe side I have put a new tube and tyre on. I will patch the inside of the other tyre and keep it as a spare and wait and see what happens with the original tube.

While I was doing that, a friend called round. He volunteered to do some other fettling jobs that I had lined up. He fitted some used 105 STI controls to my CAADX, to replace its grotty old Tiagras which...

• Had the wrong pull ratio for the cable disk brakes and therefore barely worked
• Looked awful, especially with cables sprouting from the sides
• Had hoods which felt uncomfortable

The 105s are much nicer. I just need to buy a new rear brake cable now. The old one was fraying and wouldn't go back through the outer.

He also did a good job refitting the bar tape. I don't usually make a very good job of it, but watched how he did it and will see if I am any better doing it that way myself next time.

I cleaned both bikes.

I replaced the worn Sammy Slick CX tyres on the CAADX with some slightly less worn and more puncture resistant Vittoria Randonneur tyres that I had in my spares box. They probably won't roll particularly well but that bike is going to be my foul weather machine so I am more interested in trying to avoid punctures than break any speed records on it.

I checked the chain on the 6-speed bike and it was at 0.75% wear so I replaced it with a new one.

I rewarded my helpful pal with the Tiagra shifters (which he aims to use on a DIY shopping bike) and a pair of Look cleat covers. He still uses Look pedals but I am SPD only now.

 

[T4tomo]

New bars installed, gear inner and outer cables replaced (with a bit of fiddling...) bars wrapped. Screw in bar ends fitted as keep losing the push in ones! Looks fine from a distance!

is that a modern revival of the old "sports mudguards"

 

[VinSumRox]

They are Cube ones made for that bike, could be longer but they fit very neatly.

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is that a modern revival of the old "sports mudguards"

 

[Jameshow]

I noticed that the pressure in the front tyre of my 6-speed bike seemed to have dropped significantly. I thought that it must have a slow puncture so I took a look at it. I had ridden over a patch of glass on my last ride and I thought that might have caused the problem. Sure enough, I did find some tiny pieces of glass embedded in the tyre. They had not penetrated through to the tube but obviously I removed them before they could. I did find one hole through to the tube, but (curiously!) no hole in the tube itself there. In fact, the tube did not appear to have any holes in it! I put some air in it and held it under water - no bubbles. I have left it all day and it hasn't gone down. Maybe it has an absolutely tiny hole which only opens up at high pressures? Anyway, to be on the safe side I have put a new tube and tyre on. I will patch the inside of the other tyre and keep it as a spare and wait and see what happens with the original tube.

While I was doing that, a friend called round. He volunteered to do some other fettling jobs that I had lined up. He fitted some used 105 STI controls to my CAADX, to replace its grotty old Tiagras which...

• Had the wrong pull ratio for the cable disk brakes and therefore barely worked
• Looked awful, especially with cables sprouting from the sides
• Had hoods which felt uncomfortable

The 105s are much nicer. I just need to buy a new rear brake cable now. The old one was fraying and wouldn't go back through the outer.

He also did a good job refitting the bar tape. I don't usually make a very good job of it, but watched how he did it and will see if I am any better doing it that way myself next time.

I cleaned both bikes.

I replaced the worn Sammy Slick CX tyres on the CAADX with some slightly less worn and more puncture resistant Vittoria Randonneur tyres that I had in my spares box. They probably won't roll particularly well but that bike is going to be my foul weather machine so I am more interested in trying to avoid punctures than break any speed records on it.

I checked the chain on the 6-speed bike and it was at 0.75% wear so I replaced it with a new one.

I rewarded my helpful pal with the Tiagra shifters (which he aims to use on a DIY shopping bike) and a pair of Look cleat covers. He still uses Look pedals but I am SPD only now.

The tiagra levers don't work btw!! 🤣

 

[ColinJ]

The tiagra levers don't work btw!! 🤣

They would work okay with brake callipers that need that particular pull ratio. My disk brakes didn't work well with that ratio so I could pull the brake levers onto the bar tape without quite locking the wheels!

 

[VinSumRox]

Chuffed at how much better the gears change with new cables and outers, must have needed doing for some time!

 

[Drzdave58]

Almost done refurbishing this Vintage Moulton.

 

[Webbo2]

Did some pedal changing as my left look pedal on my best bike is difficult to get out of to extent I have nearly come off a couple of times because of this. Tried a different shoe and still the same, the pedal is set on the lowest tension. So put the pedal off my turbo trainer bike on my second best bike and the pedal off that bike on my best bike.
Pedals aren’t that old so I might be in the market for somE Look keo carbon pedals.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Serviced both wheel hubs. I’d left rear too long and drive side cone pitted. Sourced replacement smooth one from an old wheel.

 

[cyberknight]

Found some narrower bars in the shed so did a swap on the weigh build as the ones that were on are a bit wide , luckily i did this whilst the cables were still attached and managed to reuse the bar tape as it has only done about 40 miles so far.I then had to dig around for a longer stem as the new bars are short reach /drop jobbies .

 

[ColinJ]

I checked the chain on the 6-speed bike and it was at 0.75% wear so I replaced it with a new one.

The 6-speed bike is derived from my old singlespeed bike. I eventually added the extra sprockets to let me tackle a few extra routes which are too steep for me in my singlespeed gear, but I still generally ride about using either the 14 tooth or 15 tooth sprocket. Those therefore get absolutely hammered. What is worse is that they came from used cassettes so they were already 50% worn when I fitted them. Riding them with a chain that I had let get too worn...?

Yes, the inevitable happened on today's first ride with the new chain!

I cycled for a few minutes warming-up on a flat road and was thinking how much quieter and smoother the new chain was and then turned up a short ramp. The chain immediately slipped several times on the 15 tooth sprocket. I tried again on the 14 and had the same problem!

I did the rest of my little test ride using the other gears. They were fine because they don't get much use to wear them out.

I will go and hunt around in my spares store (boxes of used bike bits!) and see if I can find usable 14 and 15 tooth sprockets. [PS Done. I found a pair that looked marginally better and fitted them. Test ride tomorrow.]

The bailout cog on the bike is a 29. I think that I probably have a 30 somewhere, which would be even better when I am struggling (3.3% easier) so I will do that swap while I am at it if I can. [PS I discovered why I didn't do it before - the 30 is rivetted to a 26. I could drill the rivets out or change the 6-speed to a 7-speed including the 26 but for now I have left it as it is.]