DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Attempted to fit cheap ergo bar-ends/grips. Failed due to incorrect manufacture...
What Have You Fettled Today?
- Thread starter threebikesmcginty
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White Spirit is my 'cheap and effective' go to cleaner for everything. Don't anybody be drawn in by that eco-friendly 'Clean Spirit' as it is total crap.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Bits and pieces over the past couple of days with the PlanetX hillclimb bike build stalled as I'm still sourcing a crankset and shifters:
- The Dawes Kingpin's been partly stripped in preparation for new wheels and a re-paint.
- Swapped the Absolute Black oval chainrings from my son's winter Boardman, where he was testing them, to his BeOne Raw training bike. Not the easiest job and, as that's the one we're both currently using on the smart turbo it should be interesting to see what they're like.
- Began work on the Peugeot Tourmalet project; crankset off, brake cable rusted stuck inside the frame freed, bottom bracket removed and re-greased.
- Wrong size front wheel that came on the Peugeot re-greased with new bearings.
- Drillium chainrings with stuck bolt loosened; I drilled out the bolt.
- Tyre onto a track wheel for the Fuji Track Classic; just a grasstrack rear wheel needed now.
- The Dawes Kingpin's been partly stripped in preparation for new wheels and a re-paint.
- Swapped the Absolute Black oval chainrings from my son's winter Boardman, where he was testing them, to his BeOne Raw training bike. Not the easiest job and, as that's the one we're both currently using on the smart turbo it should be interesting to see what they're like.
- Began work on the Peugeot Tourmalet project; crankset off, brake cable rusted stuck inside the frame freed, bottom bracket removed and re-greased.
- Wrong size front wheel that came on the Peugeot re-greased with new bearings.
- Drillium chainrings with stuck bolt loosened; I drilled out the bolt.
- Tyre onto a track wheel for the Fuji Track Classic; just a grasstrack rear wheel needed now.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
New rear brake blocks on the Pinnacle.
I had a Tourmalet 30 years ago, it was a really lovely bike, I gave it to my brother and within a week he managed to get it stolen.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
I replaced my ergonomic Selle Royale with a flat one from a BSO. It's much more comfortable.
Racing roadkill
Guru
I updated the firmware for my gearing, then trimmed in the front mech a bit today. I much prefer doing it with a computer, rather than cable tension.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Bit of paint touching up after Sunday's Epic ride. We did some seriously bouldered descents and one rock absolutely walloped the frame. Found out it had kicked up, and gone between the tyre and swing arm, and took a chunk out of the chainstay - certainly wasn't a 'carbon bike descent' - you'd be some what worried.
itboffin
Guru
- Location
- Marlborough, Windshire
Swapped my 3x8 to 1x8 and shortened the chain to suit also took a bit of bake outer off the rear mech to make it look a bit neater, just waiting for a lockout remote lever before giving it a bash in the forest, the narrow wide 34T chainring should be a good compromise and even better when my 11-34 8 speed cassette arrives.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
The crank axle on my 1990's Raleigh was bent so I got a replacement exactly the same length.
Unfortunately the distance between the bearing races on the original was 58mm and it was 52mm on the new one. I couldn't screw the adjustable cup in enough to compensate so I just put another row of ball bearings on top of the existing one. I've now got a 33 bearing crank.
Unfortunately the distance between the bearing races on the original was 58mm and it was 52mm on the new one. I couldn't screw the adjustable cup in enough to compensate so I just put another row of ball bearings on top of the existing one. I've now got a 33 bearing crank.
Racing roadkill
Guru
I re greased the headset on the old Boardman Hybrid today. It’s running super smooth again now.
That's the nicest ebike I have ever seen
I have just had my stand out on the lawn tuning in the gears and setting-up the brakes on my wifes friends husbands (
) new Merida road bike after he went mad adjusting the High/Low screws himself. Not a bad looking bike for a sale price of around £500 but everything was unbranded apart from the 8spd Shimano Claris. I hadn't realised that even Claris now has the cables routed behind the bar tape.
) new Merida road bike after he went mad adjusting the High/Low screws himself. Not a bad looking bike for a sale price of around £500 but everything was unbranded apart from the 8spd Shimano Claris. I hadn't realised that even Claris now has the cables routed behind the bar tape.
Ive had lots of failures some bike related.
Mended Karcher pressure washer-new start run capacitor
HP laptop- new mini pci wifi card
Found reason for random RCD tripping on consumer unit-earth leakage clamp confirmation
Currently fabricating simple bracket for expansion coolant bottle to sort out loss of coolant from ride on mower
Wife's pedal crank fell off mid ride, a quick retrace of route found dropped allen bolt
Mended Karcher pressure washer-new start run capacitor
HP laptop- new mini pci wifi card
Found reason for random RCD tripping on consumer unit-earth leakage clamp confirmation
Currently fabricating simple bracket for expansion coolant bottle to sort out loss of coolant from ride on mower
Wife's pedal crank fell off mid ride, a quick retrace of route found dropped allen bolt
