I had a bit of a sweary fit earlier. I was just checking the bike I’ve recently upgraded to R7000 spec, to see what ( if anything ) needed a quick tweek here or a nip up there, and I noticed that as I turned the steering full lock to the right, the rear brake was coming on slightly. Ah, bugger, rookie mistake, I’d measured the outer cable distance from the brifter to the stop on the frame, with the bars straight. It was just too short, with the bars turned full lock right. So I cut a new longer piece of outer and popped it on. Double bugger, the inner isn’t long enough now. Ah well, I’ve got a new inner on next day delivery from good old
Wiggle. Other than that, everything else is working just fine on this bike now. Then I turned my attention to the big old Boardman MX comp. I fitted a replacement BB a few weeks back ( a SRAM Power spline sealed cartridge ) and it suddenly started clicking quite loudly last week, when putting anything like decent powaaah down. So I got the cranks off, and checked the security / torque of the collars. They had worked themselves a bit loose, so I torqued them up a bit, put the cranks back on and tested it, it wasn’t clicking on seated efforts, but it was still clicking on standing efforts, so I repeated the previous procedure, and torqued the collars up a bit more. It was silent right up until I was really pushing in a high gear up hill, so I repeated the procedure yet again, and Torqued the collars until I nearly gave myself a hernia. That’s got it, silence is golden
. My next fettling effort will be to get the stuck seat post out of my old Boardman Pro Carbon roadie, then I’ll start looking at my old BSA.
