What Have You Fettled Today?

[Ming the Merciless]

Same here, never heard of them but then again why would I as never ridden a recumbent.
Power idler sounds like something on my ride on mower!

You will find idlers in such machines as well as cars, lathes etc. All over the place in things that use belts or chains.

You must have heard the term when a car engine is idling.

 

[Binky]

You will find idlers in such machines as well as cars, lathes etc. All over the place in things that use belts or chains.

You must have heard the term when a car engine is idling.

Yes but not on a push bike.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yes but not on a push bike.

That is why they have different names, as they are not push bikes 🤣

 

[DCLane]

That is why they have different names, as they are not push bikes 🤣

Given some of the bikes I ride, they are.

 

[Binky]

That is why they have different names, as they are not push bikes 🤣

Meh. Generic name for range of bicycle.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Just over a week ago: Fitted a new Sunrace M90 rear derailleur on the knockabout bike. I'd been having shifting problems with the old rear derailleur and having stripped and regreased it and changed the gear cables I was still getting the odd ghost shift so it looked like it was just simply worn out. The new one seems pretty good quality for quite a bit less money than the Shimano equivalent and first impressions are that the gear shifts are now as good as on my two better bikes.

 

[All uphill]

Just over a week ago: Fitted a new Sunrace M90 rear derailleur on the knockabout bike. I'd been having shifting problems with the old rear derailleur and having stripped and regreased it and changed the gear cables I was still getting the odd ghost shift so it looked like it was just simply worn out. The new one seems pretty good quality for quite a bit less money than the Shimano equivalent and first impressions are that the gear shifts are now as good as on my two better bikes.

Thanks for that Phil.

I can't quite get the shifts right on my Spa. I've checked the hanger alignment, replaced cables and outers but it's still not quite right. Chain and cassette are low mileage. Your message reminded me that I am using a 25 year old Shimano Deore rd.

I've put Sunrace RDS on bikes before and found them functional, so I'll order another today.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Finally got around to fitting the Mahle SP1 battery entender to my ebike.

The cage would position the extender 2-3cm lower if I used the seat tube mounts, but I thought using the down tube mounts would better balance the ebike, because the ebike as supplied is quite rear heavy due to the rear hub motor. But I wasn't sure the cable to link the extender to the ebike charge port would reach, if I used the down tube mount.

Cable reached fine, happy days, so go to put bottle back in the seat tube bottle cage...

It won't ****** fit, the SP1 blocks the way for the bottle to sit in its proper ride position, didn't see that coming at all!

So only place I can see as practical bottle cage mount is underside of top tube, which positions the bottle awfully horizontal while riding and surely liable to jump out when I catch any bumps on the road?!

Edit: Thought I'd come up with a solution to make seat tube bottle cage useable, by mounting the SP1 cage higher with the various cage bolt holes it has. But mounting the SP1 cage high enough to use the seat tube bottle cage leaves the SP1 cable/plug ~1cm from the ebike charge socket.