Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
New orange silicon cover fitted to my Garmin to match my orange bar tape. So frivolous 😉
What Have You Fettled Today?
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FrankCrank
Old layabout
Sounds ominous.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Oiled the chain
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Took a minute, wiped down my chain on my commuter with baby wipe, and a soft cloth after. Before dripping a drop of drip wax on each roller. I think I marginally wipe and relube than I did with lube but that's outweighed by components lasting longer, clean hands and no chain tattoo etc. The frame needs a proper clean but that'll wait until the weekend.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Nothing worse than a bike strewn up yer passage.
Shearwater Missile
Veteran
- Location
- Stowmarket
Yet another clean of the chain and running gear. The chain always takes on a different colour at this time of year. Does anyone else find that ? Around here, being a heavy clay soil, the run off gives the chain the same colour.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
New rear tyre on my bike. Was hoping at least another week or two out of tyre but it signalled it is time to retire it. Audax tomorrow and don't want to be messing around in the forecast rain.
EckyH
It wasn't me!
- Location
- Nottuln, North Rhine-Westphalia
Switched the wheel sets including the change of cassettes and tyres: the Van Rysel NCR AF got the new built wheel set, the Ridley X-Ride with disc brakes got the wheel set from the NCR AF and the construction site Ridley Kanzo A got the wheel set from the Ridley X-Ride.
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Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
One bike deep cleaned and chain cleaned/lubed after Wednesday's ride on mucky roads, three bikes given a basic clean and chain clean/lube after rides on less mucky roads over the past fortnight.
Elybazza61
Guru
Thursday partially done the rear dynamo cable re-route through the frame; had to add a short piece of cable so it was long enough.
Just need to finish connecting up to the cable from the mudguard.
Just need to finish connecting up to the cable from the mudguard.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
greased the bearings on the commuter rear wheel which meant a lot of cursing as the loose ball bearings kept falling out as i turned the wheel trying to regrease everything and i even lost one somewhere so its a good job i kept a pot of spares .I gave the freehub a good clean and put it all back together eventually 
The cassette looks a little worn but i didnt have one in stock so im am liable to run it through another month till the weather improves and next job is to clean the chain and check the wear followed by trying to sort out the seized barrel adjuster on the rear brake which looks like i will have to disconnect the cable and use a pair of pliers to get it out before lubing and reinstalling it .
The cassette looks a little worn but i didnt have one in stock so im am liable to run it through another month till the weather improves and next job is to clean the chain and check the wear followed by trying to sort out the seized barrel adjuster on the rear brake which looks like i will have to disconnect the cable and use a pair of pliers to get it out before lubing and reinstalling it .
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Well that was fun as i had to use pliers to get the barrel adjuster off destroying the plastic bit in the process , luckily i had another set of the same brand brakes in stock so i pinched one off that and gave the threads a good lube which seemed to have fixed it .
Onto getting the gears to index and that has a similar issue so i will have to replace the barrel adjuster on the RD too but at least i have them working properly atm and as i suspected the chain and cassette both need replacing and i guess the large chain ring too .
This bike has had a hard life commuting in all weathers so its no surprise it needs some tlc .
Onto getting the gears to index and that has a similar issue so i will have to replace the barrel adjuster on the RD too but at least i have them working properly atm and as i suspected the chain and cassette both need replacing and i guess the large chain ring too .
This bike has had a hard life commuting in all weathers so its no surprise it needs some tlc .
Elybazza61
Guru
Finished the dynamo cabling on the Faran so now all working again with tidier routing.
A new rear mudguard in my road bike. This is the third, the previous two broke near the bridge, though the curve is smooth, so no stress as far as I can see. I now have two front bluemels spare. If this third one goes the same way I'll have to try a different model.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Need to run a slight tweak/experiment on the commuter.
It's old Deore XT and LX. 7 speed shifters running a 8 speed cassette with a sprocket removed. This means running 8 speed 3mm spacers. 7 speed is 3.1mm.
Doesnt really make any difference other than in the last but one sprocket, rough ground can bounce the chain onto the bottom sprocket. Never usually an issue, but this weeks tailwinds had me using them (only a 44T big chainring). Plan is to swap out a 3mm spacer (before last two sprockets) for a 3.5 or 3.85mm from the parts box.
Edit. Done. A 2mm and a 1.85mm spacer
fitted. Minor adjustment to mech limit.
It's old Deore XT and LX. 7 speed shifters running a 8 speed cassette with a sprocket removed. This means running 8 speed 3mm spacers. 7 speed is 3.1mm.
Doesnt really make any difference other than in the last but one sprocket, rough ground can bounce the chain onto the bottom sprocket. Never usually an issue, but this weeks tailwinds had me using them (only a 44T big chainring). Plan is to swap out a 3mm spacer (before last two sprockets) for a 3.5 or 3.85mm from the parts box.
Edit. Done. A 2mm and a 1.85mm spacer
fitted. Minor adjustment to mech limit.
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