What Have You Fettled Today?

[Rusty Nails]

I thought I would like a polished handlebar stem on my bike . I started off by lightly filing some of the scratches out with a needle file and then

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over the rest of the stem before polishing it up with Megiuars metal polish.

I love polished alloy stems and crank arms. I've even been known to polish wheel rims and hubs.

 

[Illaveago]

I love polished alloy stems and crank arms. I've even been known to polish wheel rims and hubs.

I like riding along in the sunshine with all the polished bits reflecting the blue sky .
I might overdose on the chrome frame !

 

[Rusty Nails]

I like riding along in the sunshine with all the polished bits reflecting the blue sky .
I might overdose on the chrome frame !

I had an alloy Merlin Malt mtb which I was going to respray but after stripping the paint I polished it, liked the look, and kept it like that with a repolish every year.

 

[biggs682]

Been stripping tubular wheels down and so far 4 campagnolo record hubs

 

[Andy in Germany]

Swapped the saddle from my touring bike to my commuter, and fitted my new Brooks Flyer to the tourer, with all due ceremony of course.

Took the pedals on the commuter to bits, repacked the bearings and tightened them: they're really scrap but hopefully I can get a couple more months out of them (Ie: long enough to get a job so I can pay for new pedals)

Hopefully the replacement toe clips will arrive today and I can fit those too.

Update: Replacement toe clips have failed to arrive. Yah Boo.

 

[Gunk]

Update: Replacement toe clips have failed to arrive. Yah Boo.

All seems to be slow this week, I’m waiting some stuff for my Raleigh that hasn’t arrived yet, very frustrating

 

[roley poley]

new bike back from its 6 week breaking in free service so I can now get the hacksaw out!!! Lost a good (bad) length of saddle stem more weight than use. Stopped the toe tap on front mud guard by remounting the eyelet on the rear of fork crown to the front and clipped its stays down with good wire cutting pliers. Some nice clinks heard from the scrap box as I gained enlightenment OMMMM

 

[fossyant]

My portable pressure washer project parts are on 'order'. Consists of a 25l water container (went for red), with an ebay special 12v pump and hoses - total cost £25. I've a few MTB rides coming up where we are not riding from home, so a filthy bike going into the back of the car (can't be bothered with the rack in winter) isn't wanted. I believe pressure is just above tap pressure, which is enough for getting the worse off before a full clean at home.

New SRAM jockey wheels are awaiting fitting to the FS - one of the Jockey's has no seals left - mud and crud got in between the cover plate and the bearing seal, and it's 'melted' the seal. Still works fine, but being 'Mr Picky', I'm replacing them.

 

[Gunk]

All seems to be slow this week, I’m waiting some stuff for my Raleigh that hasn’t arrived yet, very frustrating

Seat post has arrived 👍 just waiting for the seat

 

[fossyant]

Been stripping tubular wheels down and so far 4 campagnolo record hubs

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Oh nice, in the days when they did grease ports. My DA hubs have grease ports. Fabulous idea.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Update: Replacement toe clips have failed to arrive. Yah Boo.

Further update: Replacements arrived and are fixed on the pedals. Pedals aren't on the bike as yet, but it's a step forward...

 

[Gunk]

Seat post has arrived 👍 just waiting for the seat

And the seat has just turned up. Bit of fiddle arsing around to look forward to!

 

[Andy in Germany]

Further update: Replacements arrived and are fixed on the pedals. Pedals aren't on the bike as yet, but it's a step forward...

And finally pedals are fitted. They are still complete wrecks but hopefully will hold out for a bit.

Wow, that was almost live blogging like cool people do.

 

[si_c]

Fitted a second bottle cage to my Trek and tweaked the front brake cable to make the braking a little less bitey then didn't like how far the pads were from the rims so changed back

 

[Gunk]

Worth the wait 👍

All fitted