What Have You Fettled Today?

[Kies]

Couldn't get the indexing quite right, so rode down to Slough and asked the lbs to help. He spotted my front derailleur was slightly twisted. 2 minutes later I had near silent gear changes on the Triban 3, and he didn't charge me anything. Top man

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I've built up the second of my lamp brackets. I can put out lots of light to the rear of both bikes now:

Edit: Now attached to the knockabout bike:

 

[jayonabike]

2 new GP 4 seasons fitted to the winter wheels on the Enigma, and 1 GP 4000s to the rear summer wheel. Also fitted new Koolstop pads front and rear.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Gt 26" tourer had a bad rear wheel, so I went to my wheel library and found a new one, and fitted same after moving over the tires. Tried to fix my freewheel on the original wheel, but I think a pawl spring is broken. That may have to wait for winter. The freewheel seizes every now and then, in short bursts. Also took my dog to the vets to have his ragweed allergy shot, and a general fettling of the hound.

 

[DCLane]

I finally set to work on the 1980's Raleigh Team, after it's been sat for weeks. I'd budgetted £40 for repairs but the work needed on the rear wheel (spoke/hub/bearings) done in August has meant the budget went up quite a bit.

This evening, whilst sat with a cold I've fitted:

- New correctly-spaced 130mm rear wheel skewer
- Rear wheel properly set up with new tube
- Vittoria Pro Slick tyres front & rear
- New front & rear brake outers in blue, with new cables
- New Cane Creek brake hoods
- New blue bar tape
- White bottle cage

Hopefully that's it finished ready for occasional commuter duties and as a run-around in 'dodgy' places. TBH it looks too good to leave parked up in Dewsbury but I don't want to be leaving the Raleigh Airlite or Spesh Secteur there.

 

[Deleted member 20519]

Well today I gave an old steel frame a coat of (purple ) paint. The frame had been sitting out in the shed for a few months now and I was seeing signs of rust, I thought it would have been good to get a coat of paint on it to stop that.

There's not much that needs done before the bike is rideable. I think I need:

A bottom bracket
Chainset
Chain
Brake pads
Bar tape
Ball bearings for headset

and then it should be good to go!

 

[marknotgeorge]

Fitted the long-awaited Tekro junior brake levers to the Mad Scientist's Cuda Mayhem. Her tiny fingers mean there's not much travel in the levers, so they're a little snatchy. Hopefully her lower grip strength will compensate.

I also fettled the all-important Hello Kitty water bottle holder...

 

[petefastfeet]

fettled my front brake on the commuter bike,,,,recent wet weather has worn them down.

 

[Milzy]

I fettled the old boy.

 

[PeteXXX]

Being the owner of three 16mm cone spanners, and needing a 17mm for the rear wheel on my Marin, I fettled one up to being a 17mm cone spanner with the use of a G clamp, a metal file and a vernier gauge.

 

[Milzy]

Being the owner of three 16mm cone spanners, and needing a 17mm for the rear wheel on my Marin, I fettled one up to being a 17mm cone spanner with the use of a G clamp, a metal file and a vernier gauge.

I like your style.

 

[BSRU]

Decided, after owning my Croix de Fer for almost 5 months, that it might be a good time to see if my Marathon Winter tyres actually fitted it.
Thankfully no problems, put the original tyres back on and hopefully it will be a long while before ice tyres are required.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Bottom bracket stripped and cleaned on ma boys bmx. Lubed the chain on the fixed. Fixed puncture on race bike which is now in hibernation! Going to clean them later but ran out of polish ;-)

 

[PeteXXX]

I like your style.

Cheers!

 

[biggs682]

starting to fine tune and finish off latest build based around a Carrera Virtouso frame set i got off here from @Tanis8472 , all going well on initial first 8 miles just some basic adjustments needed .