What Have You Fettled Today?

[wisdom]

Looks very neat.How long it stays white is another story.

 

[Robeh]

agree good job,i hate white tape...

 

[Racing roadkill]

White tape means you keep your hand in with replacing bar tape.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Job's a good'un

 

[User33236]

Swapped the stock wheels on my CAADX for a set of Kinesis Crosslight CX. Minor tweaking required to brakes and rear indexing but less than expected. Now to start the weekly chain cleaning regime on the rest of the fleet.

 

[KneesUp]

Having bought aload of components over the last few months (bars, stem, cantilevers, brake levers, bar ends, headset etc.) and built up a commuter-thing on a 700c hybrid frame, I am considering stripping it all off and building it on to my rigid MTB frame.

 

[Racing roadkill]

New pedals for the faithful old crosstrail, and a pedal spanner, I'm just off to put them on.

 

[SimonJKH]

After TWO rear punctures in one nine mile commute (with more than my fair share of flats over the preceding weeks) I have binned the onza preda tyre I bought purely because it was on sale when I was putting the bike together, and fitted the semi-worn Conti GP 4 seasons I had in the shed. Let's see if that improves things...

 

[Racing roadkill]

After TWO rear punctures in one nine mile commute (with more than my fair share of flats over the preceding weeks) I have binned the onza preda tyre I bought purely because it was on sale when I was putting the bike together, and fitted the semi-worn Conti GP 4 seasons I had in the shed. Let's see if that improves things...

It's that time of year, when the puncture fairy does her worst. No tyres (except solids) are puncture proof, even the best ones can still get a puncture.

I'm considering trying these out,

http://tannus.co.uk/products.html

 

[Robeh]

It's that time of year, when the puncture fairy does her worst. No tyres (except solids) are puncture proof, even the best ones can still get a puncture.

I'm considering trying these out,

http://tannus.co.uk/products.html

depends on the price,they look pretty good.

 

[bpsmith]

I think I saw that they are £99 each, when I saw them on Twitter.

 

[Robeh]

I think I saw that they are £99 each, when I saw them on Twitter.

Thats A Major Investment In Tyre's

 

[bpsmith]

Thats A Major Investment In Tyre's

Yup. A real gamble imho.

 

[Donger]

agree good job,i hate white tape...

So what are your views on green and yellow tape then? You might gather from this picture that I'm not much of a fettler. This repair to my trip computer seems to be holding, though, and will probably still be in place long after I am dead and gone. Classy.

 

[Poacher]

Following an excellent respray job by Dave Yates, Bertie is no longer Bertie. It's now a rather lovely sparkly cobalt blue. When I was checking the old headset for refitting, I noticed a crack in the crown race, so that will now be relegated to an old Bob Jackson frame for very occasional use. Bought an alloy Stronglight A9 for the Superbe frame, along with the proper tools for the job (Cyclus crown race setter and headset press - cheap from Rose bikes thanks to the favourable exchange rate) and finally plucked up courage to fit it this afternoon. Damn scary applying hammer blows to fit the crown race, and glad the headset cups went on relatively easily. Phew!