What Have You Fettled Today?

[Heltor Chasca]

Outdoor Gear Tech Turtle speaker fitted to the cargo bike. The school run is bearable with some good tunes.

Painted the seatpost on my Audax bike. Looks great. Then I put my saddle bag on, and now I can’t see my handy work. Life is a bit like that isn’t it?

 

[Gravity Aided]

Finished cabling the Trek 950, time for bar tape, and some fenders and racks. Then on to putting some side pull brakes on the Corso, as center pulls provided just aren't very good at stopping the bicycle.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Added Shimano M520 SPD pedals to the road bike and accompanying cleats to my shoes.

 

[DCLane]

Sort of fettling: I've a box of cycle computers, wireless bits and clips that has been accumulated from various sources. For a while I've left them knowing it's a job that needed doing.

Today was the day to deal with it; eight computers binned for no matching wireless bits or simply not working, seven matched with new batteries.

 

[graham bowers]

Good clean of the Hewitt, wheels off, chain off, chipped off all of the fossilised chainlube. Seems to be smoother now, suspect that's in my head. Ordered new BB, middle chainring, chainring tool and chain.

 

[bikingdad90]

Paired my Lezyne cadence and speed sensor with my Lezyne Macro GPS after updating the firmware that was recently released.

 

[Justinitus]

Recently had a bit of noise coming from the bb area on the Diverge on the first few rotations of each ride. Removed crankset and bb, cleaned and refitted and all ok now. Never done a bb before so quite happy.

 

[NorthernDave]

Pumped the tyres up, mickled the chain.

 

[Salty seadog]

Pumped the tyres up, mickled the chain.

Woah, you go easy there Dave.

 

[NorthernDave]

Woah, you go easy there Dave.

No point overdoing it, is there? I washed it last week.

 

[Salty seadog]

No point overdoing it, is there? I washed it last week.

You know you can't keep up that sort of red hot maximum pace for ever. Slow downman.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Tested the Trek 950 this afternoon, after pumping up the tires and tightening the headset, as well as finding that the Trek 950 takes the same seatpost as my Facet Biotour 2000. A fine bike. Rides really well. It was a short ride, as it was about 1C.

 

[DCLane]

Continued working on the Boardman AirPro black edition - brake and gear cables fitted through a very fiddly set of 3T Aeronova carbon bars. Front derailleur's playing up so I'll re-do the cable tomorrow.

Still to do:

- Fit Raceblade Long mudguards as it'll be a joint winter road bike with my 14yo
- Fit the chain
- Adjust the shifters to fit a bit better, which may mean a shorter stem as well
- Front derailleur cable to sort
- Decide on wheels and tyres
- Fit some pedals
- Find some bar tape. I forgot that bit so we're out unless it's red. And I used my 'nice' LizardSkins red tape on my son's BeOne training bike.
- I may need to swap the crankset from 172.5mm to 170mm for him as he's a little bit shorter than me but that'd mess up the '105-only' rule he set for the build.

Progress photo:

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

I wasn't entirely happy with the derailleur indexing on my recent Raleigh Pioneer pub bike rebuild. Lowest 3 gears were OK but 4th upwards was a bit clattery. After double checking the high and low limit screws I fiddled around fine tuning the gear cable tension until I could get all 6 gears in a reasonable degree of silence.
The other job was fit a pair of mudguards, or rather two mudguards - as they aren't really a pair! Rear is SKS chromoplastic that came with a donor Pioneer. I've shortened it by about 3 inches so it stops higher at the back, to make it possible to wheel the bike up on it's rear wheel without grounding the mudguard. The front was put together using the best stays & fittings from a damaged pair that came off a 99p eBay special. It doesn't match the SKS - but so long as it works I don't care! The build now incorporates donor parts from at least six different bikes

 

[rogerzilla]

I glued a pair of tubs onto my track wheels. That's not something I would describe as fun.