Andy in Germany
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- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
What Have You Fettled Today?
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Bit of storage fettling today. I spotted wall hooks on sale at planet-x for £1.99 each so took a punt. The Oltre will stay in her spot on the other side, the turbo bike will stay out and the brompton will be kept elsewhere so I ordered six. Is it possible to have too many bikes? 
Anyway they arrived yesterday so I had a play this afternoon. I was quite surprised to find they even came with wall plugs and screws at that price. I fitted two first to see if they were going to be any good...
... and was pleasantly surprised! They were a bit tight on the 2.6x27.5" mtb tyres but they fit and hang nicely. With the experiment a success I drilled 16 more holes, knocked in 16 more wall plugs and tightened 16 more screws until I was left with this...
Essentially I now have 6 bikes neatly stored and easily accessible in a space that previously had 4 piled on top of each other. Great success and a thumbs up to planet-x for the bargain price!
Anyway they arrived yesterday so I had a play this afternoon. I was quite surprised to find they even came with wall plugs and screws at that price. I fitted two first to see if they were going to be any good...
... and was pleasantly surprised! They were a bit tight on the 2.6x27.5" mtb tyres but they fit and hang nicely. With the experiment a success I drilled 16 more holes, knocked in 16 more wall plugs and tightened 16 more screws until I was left with this...
Essentially I now have 6 bikes neatly stored and easily accessible in a space that previously had 4 piled on top of each other. Great success and a thumbs up to planet-x for the bargain price!
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Bit of storage fettling today. I spotted wall hooks on sale at planet-x for £1.99 each so took a punt. The Oltre will stay in her spot on the other side, the turbo bike will stay out and the brompton will be kept elsewhere so I ordered six. Is it possible to have too many bikes?
Anyway they arrived yesterday so I had a play this afternoon. I was quite surprised to find they even came with wall plugs and screws at that price. I fitted two first to see if they were going to be any good...
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... and was pleasantly surprised! They were a bit tight on the 2.6x27.5" mtb tyres but they fit and hang nicely. With the experiment a success I drilled 16 more holes, knocked in 16 more wall plugs and tightened 16 more screws until I was left with this...
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Essentially I now have 6 bikes neatly stored and easily accessible in a space that previously had 4 piled on top of each other. Great success and a thumbs up to planet-x for the bargain price!
Your garage looks better organised than my living room.
Thankfuly we live in a region where crime is low, bikes are unattractive to thieves and garage doors are massive, so locking the bikes down isn't necessary.
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keithmac
Guru
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
- Location
- Suffolk
Cosmetic fettling, colour coded decals to the new Rockshox fork that I fitted to my daughters bike to brighten it up a bit!
pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
and if you wear though the soles of your shoes before the rest wears out you will live to spend all your money.
All the old ones come out here !!!!!!!
Haven’t heard that one before.
Freezing if sunny outside so finished fettling a composite image of my UCI photos by adding riders names and the event plus a couple of graphics and, eventually, a successful print set in a poundland frame.
Strictly Dame Sarah Storey (top left) should not be on it but needed a British winner on it. The alternative I discovered this week could have been Tom Pidcock for being the Strava KOM on the "Worlds climb full", the climb up Cornwall Road from Oak Beck Bridge and then through the Pine Woods which oddly has never previously been a single segment. 2 mins 21 apparently.
Strictly Dame Sarah Storey (top left) should not be on it but needed a British winner on it. The alternative I discovered this week could have been Tom Pidcock for being the Strava KOM on the "Worlds climb full", the climb up Cornwall Road from Oak Beck Bridge and then through the Pine Woods which oddly has never previously been a single segment. 2 mins 21 apparently.
robgul
Legendary Member
At long last I've rearranged my workshop - for bicycle storage plus bicycle work bench with tool board - and a woodwork bench and machinery area (table & chop saws, drill press, sanding/polishing/grinding machinery - drawers for tools). Still some stuff in boxes to sort but it's getting there 
Rob
Rob
Put a Marathon + on the rear wheel of the commuter. Fairly hard work- although not as hard as anticipated.
Hope I never have to get the bastard off at the side of the road when it's minus three. If it's as good as the Specialized Infinity it replaced chances are I won't need to.
Hope I never have to get the bastard off at the side of the road when it's minus three. If it's as good as the Specialized Infinity it replaced chances are I won't need to.
At long last I've rearranged my workshop - for bicycle storage plus bicycle work bench with tool board - and a woodwork bench and machinery area (table & chop saws, drill press, sanding/polishing/grinding machinery - drawers for tools). Still some stuff in boxes to sort but it's getting there
Rob
Photos Rob, Photos please
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Checked rear derailleur on new recumbent build as seemed like it was skipping in lower gears. Looks like new chain needs shortening as derailleur too close to cassette in certain lower gears. A job for Monday as have a longish ride tomorrow. At least with bar ends I'll know what combinations I'm in and can avoid the duff ones.
robgul
Legendary Member
.... possibly - when the stuff is all sorted and I've painted the concrete floor (the bike area has some rather splendid heavy duty plastic checker-plate industrial floor tiles that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle) .
Today's task is to fix a new power point next to the hanger that the Orbea ebike resides on and make a start on the remaining sorting - too cold for riding
Rob
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Working on getting recumbent ready for the road, but need to lengthen my chain.
keithmac
Guru
More welding and fabricating panels today on the Transit (bloody freezing!).
Got inner wing welded then my 21 year old SIP Migmate died!, ordered a steel torch wire liner for it so fingers crossed!.
@Gunk , I'll get a better one on Tuesday, was flat out at work and it was out of harms way so didn't want to wheel it out. Roadtest on Tuesday morning hopefully!.
Got inner wing welded then my 21 year old SIP Migmate died!, ordered a steel torch wire liner for it so fingers crossed!.
@Gunk , I'll get a better one on Tuesday, was flat out at work and it was out of harms way so didn't want to wheel it out. Roadtest on Tuesday morning hopefully!.
