What Have You Fettled Today?

[numbnuts]

Fitted windscreen wipers to the car

 

[alecstilleyedye]

converted a five-speed road bike to ss, replaced horrid steel wheels with aluminium ones. need to replace the rear cabling and also, ideally, swap out the bb for a cartridge that will allow me to fit a lighter stronglight ss crankset.

it's for my eldest daughter who, barring a disaster in her a level exams, is off to cambridge; flat as a pancake, no gears necessary and ss should make the bike more maintenance-free. no point having the bike out of action until i come to visit if she hasn't the cash for a bike shop repair, or hasn't made friends with a fellow student who knows his way around a bike…

 

[redvision95]

Another day another rear wheel
Instead of taking both of the wheels off to put city jets on them I decided to just find two wheels out of the scrap pile with tyres that arent big off road tyres and fit those wheels instead. I've only done the rear wheel, Ill do the front tomorrow

 

[slowmotion]

Using Halfords' car shampoo and a rinse in the shower, I gave the bike its first clean of 2016.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Using Halfords' car shampoo and a rinse in the shower, I gave the bike its first clean of 2016.

Im not sure that'll do your hair any good. Make sure to use conditioner afterwards.

 

[HLaB]

Not really fettling but a prayer for forgiveness; I'd left my drive chain uncleaned for three rides and only cleaned it tonight

 

[DCLane]

Two jobs:

1. Cleaned the Secteur after taking it up Holme Moss in the snow. I've covered 12,600+ miles on it to date and most things are still working fine (although the brakes, f&r derailleurs, saddle and wheels have been upgraded).
2. Cleaned the newly-arrived Raleigh Medale. The previous owner must have thought liberal coats of 3-in-1 oil would keep things running. I've not cleaned so much oil gunk off a bike ever. The upside of the oil residue was a well-preserved drivetrain that's now all clean and shiny. The tyres were duly pumped up and off down the road for a test ride; it all works but I'll not be using the very-cracked tyres any further.

 

[RoubaixCube]

Sunny outside - was gonna head out to my LBS to give my front derailleur some love but couldnt be arsed. I tried to adjust the cable tension a little but the adjuster doesnt seem to be doing anything. Will take it to my LBS this Friday before the CC pub meet.

So i decided to make a cuppa and settle for a nice breeze and hazy sunshine out in the garden giving the bike a clean and some routine maintenance. drivetrain was a little dirty but not that bad but I did dodge a maintenance bullet by not taking it out in the rain we've had here in the past week. Last time i gave the drivetrain some love was probably more than 3 weeks ago i think so decided it was a good time to get it done.

 

[Tin Pot]

If I take off the rear derailleur for a clean up, will it be a huge fricking hassle getting it back on?

I'll be using Zinns book as a guide.

 

[si_c]

If I take off the rear derailleur for a clean up, will it be a huge fricking hassle getting it back on?

I'll be using Zinns book as a guide.

Should be quite simple. You just need to remember to thread the rear cage properly, it's quite easy to route the chain outside the cage by accident and then spend a couple of miles wondering what the god awful noise is .

Zinn's a good guide, won't go wrong with it if you're careful.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Got my electric lawn mower going, cut my grass, and got done just as the rain set in. I also measured and ordered forks for aforesaid Specialized Expedition. I also stood around and watched someone else change the oil in my car. I deal with busses enough, so car fettling is up to others.

 

[redvision95]

Finally forced myself to attempt to fix the brake squeal on the hack bike. New front pads fitted. Mucked about with the rear brake too.
Ready for a meeting in one of the roughest areas I know tomorrow... SJ4000 mount removed for that ride, dont want it going missing.
Will chuck it back on before I take a trip to see a friend tomorrow afternoon. Really need to get around to putting a front gear cable on but cant be bothered

 

[DCLane]

Played some more with the Raleigh Medale; the drivetrain's now all cleaned from the mass of oily gunk covering it . It's got 5 clean cogs on a freewheel and I now know the wheels are Rigida week 24 1979.

Also the wheels have been trued in preparation for new tubes/tyres this weekend.

The cables all work fine and I'm loathed to change them although I need a single proper cable end from that era to match. The chain's perfectly fine as well, which was a surprise.

So ... just new tyres/tubes and bar tape to do.

 

[Tin Pot]

Using Halfords' car shampoo and a rinse in the shower, I gave the bike its first clean of 2016.

Pics or it didn't happen!

 

[slowmotion]

Pics or it didn't happen!

I'm afraid I'm not allowed to post dirty pictures.