What Have You Fettled Today?

[Tom B]

Swapped a tyre for my brother.

Sounds like a good deal... But then again I don't know your brother.


The extent of my fettling was lowering the bars on my mtb one spacer.

 

[dbeattie]

Put a red reflector on my rear mudguard so that's me legal now.

 

[HLaB]

An enforced fettle tonight. Put my bike on the turbo and noted that I wasn't getting the top two gears. On closer inspection the cable had come slightly out of the barrel adjuster. The only way I could get it back in was to loosen the cable (screw in the barrel adjuster and derailleur adjuster). Of course that meant I had to reindex the gears

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Fettled and delivered this..erm..."beauty"

Actually...it rode really nicely after a full "back to frame and fork" service. Wouldn't ride it daily myself or take it off-roading but I like to think the buyer got a usable bike for £60 - and better carefully assembled with fresh grease than it would have come out of Halfords
(then just gave the £57 after eBay commission to https://www.facebook.com/WellSmallAnimalRescue/
Sigh...guess this is why I'll never be rich

 

[ColinJ]

I fettled my old Aldi SPD shoes. I did quite a bit of walking in them on my recent Bay Way holiday and the soles ended up coming loose.

The shoes are pretty tatty but they are very comfortable so I decided to do a DIY repair. I paid about £2.75 for a tube of 'Shoe Glu' on eBay and stuck the soles back on a couple of days ago, then left the glue to dry.

I haven't ridden in them since then but the bond seems good so I don't think that there will be a problem. Even if the repair only lasts the rest of the year then it will have been worthwhile. (I still have plenty of glue left so I could stick the soles back on again if I had to, as long as the glue hasn't set solid in its tube by then.)

 

[raleighnut]

Fettled and delivered this..erm..."beauty"

Actually...it rode really nicely after a full "back to frame and fork" service. Wouldn't ride it daily myself or take it off-roading but I like to think the buyer got a usable bike for £60 - and better carefully assembled with fresh grease than it would have come out of Halfords
(then just gave the £57 after eBay commission to https://www.facebook.com/WellSmallAnimalRescue/
Sigh...guess this is why I'll never be rich
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[pjd57]

Put a few slabs down in the back garden. The neighbours bought too many and asked if I could use them.

Be rude not to.

 

[Leaway2]

No fettling as intended. As I undid the the cable clamp on the new front dérailleur, the most stupid, smallest part, a cable route adapter, fell out onto the floor and I spent the night crawling on all fours, feeling for said part.

 

[Justinitus]

Dismantled, regressed and reassembled both hubs on the Tern - they were a bit dry. Never done it before but bought some cone spanners from the local Mica hardware shop (£4.49 for a pair vs £12.99 in the LBS - exact same Silverline set...), watched a couple of YouTube videos and voila.... perfect running hubs!

Now to tackle the noisy gears...

 

[Goofball]

Changed the crank set, put on new pedals, taped the handlebars, went to set the brakes and found I had them perfect.
I didn't need to adjust them after I had reattached everything after painting it.

 

[Colin_P]

Wheeled my old, 1984 10 speed roady out of the shed, last used about four years ago.

I've always maintained it so a quick dust off, bit of oil on the chain, two new tyres and tubes and off I went.

It is nothing special, just a Peugeot carbolite frame, a compfy for me massive 25" frame, with basic simplex gears. It does have a quaint Malliard freewheel which will never come off as the removal tool is rarer than hens teeth. And the weinman brakes complete with suicide levers are scary. We coped with them back in the day, you just have to ride like you are in an oil tanker and start braking about three miles before you want to stop.

Love the bike though, it is not going to sit in the shed for as long again.

 

[overmind]

Wheeled my old, 1984 10 speed roady out of the shed, last used about four years ago.

I've always maintained it so a quick dust off, bit of oil on the chain, two new tyres and tubes and off I went.

It is nothing special, just a Peugeot carbolite frame, a compfy for me massive 25" frame, with basic simplex gears. It does have a quaint Malliard freewheel which will never come off as the removal tool is rarer than hens teeth. And the weinman brakes complete with suicide levers are scary. We coped with them back in the day, you just have to ride like you are in an oil tanker and start braking about three miles before you want to stop.

Love the bike though, it is not going to sit in the shed for as long again.

A picture would be nice. :-)

 

[Levo-Lon]

Changed my 12-25 for a12-28....im a mountain man lol

 

[HLaB]

Lol, I went to a road race today and a mate who was racing was doing so with a lose brake caliper. (He finished a great 10th despite this). I gave him my multi tool, only to find the cap on the 5mm hex was seized (glad I never had a road mechanical my self). So tonight's fettling was soaking the tool in wd40 for a few hours and then removing the cap with a pair of pliers

 

[velovoice]

The commuter is going to do light touring duties next week so today it got a handlebar bag.