What Have You Fettled Today?

[Punkawallah]

The Joy of Hex?

 

[Punkawallah]

Mounted two hooks on the garage wall to store the 'not in use' bike according to season. Bit of a jiggly to make sure of clearances etc, but seems to work. Now have to visit the flbs to score some scrap inner tubes as 'padding'.

Remains to be seen if the stored bike takes my head off when exiting the parked car . . .

 

[HLaB]

My fettling gets lame, today I put a new battery in the power meter

 

[DCLane]

Prep work for my son's Irish nationals next week:

His Argon TT bike is set up with full adult gearing. Cue crankset off, oval 52/36 chainrings onto his winter bike crankset as they were 110bcd and his TT cranks are 130bcd. Then a Junior cassette onto the TT disc. All working with a 52 front chainring instead of a 53 without any adjustments.

His winter Boardmain AirPro had plant growth in it - it did have a long, hard winter's use but I'd presumed the new headset and clean had sorted most of the issues. All cleaned inside ready for the 'loan' cranks to go back on in 10 days or so. It'll need the rear brake looking at though as that's a bit sticky.

 

[FrothNinja]

Goobed the chain, cleaned the rear set, got distracted & only just realised the front is still crusty.

 

[Oldhippy]

First time I have ever done this, but look it's purple! 😎

 

[carpiste]

Prep work for my son's Irish nationals next week:

His Argon TT bike is set up with full adult gearing. Cue crankset off, oval 52/36 chainrings onto his winter bike crankset as they were 110bcd and his TT cranks are 130bcd. Then a Junior cassette onto the TT disc. All working with a 52 front chainring instead of a 53 without any adjustments.

His winter Boardmain AirPro had plant growth in it - it did have a long, hard winter's use but I'd presumed the new headset and clean had sorted most of the issues. All cleaned inside ready for the 'loan' cranks to go back on in 10 days or so. It'll need the rear brake looking at though as that's a bit sticky.

It all sounds very much like witchcraft to me! 🧙‍♀️ 🧙‍♂️

 

[biggs682]

Kicked the squealing banshee out of the brakes on my recently acquired Dawes Super Galaxy
@Illaveago

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

General check over of the bike. Slight wobble to the cassette which needs investigating. I’ll need new brake pads soon too. Tightened up the pannier rack too.

 

[C R]

It looks like the roads are scheduled to be wet for the foreseeable, so the mudguards are back on the road bike.

 

[Drzdave58]

I added some black walnut along with some copper accents to my Ruff bike. I also moved the shifter.

 

[Oldhippy]

What a fine looking machine sir! Do you have the required attire to ride in style I wonder? Accy will assist there I think.

 

[DCLane]

Three tube changes during my commute this morning / evening - the roads in the rain this morning were terrible and I couldn't see the glass in the cycle lane. Then another coming home in the dark.

It was all at one point in south Leeds, with lots of glass in both cycle lanes. Having removed a piece of glass in torrential rain I promptly got another. So had to ride to work on a flat rear. Another one coming home having bought another couple of tubes today.

 

[Drzdave58]

What a fine looking machine sir! Do you have the required attire to ride in style I wonder? Accy will assist there I think.

well thank you….think I have good taste in clothing too.

 

[Mike_P]

3D printed saddle bag compatible Varia mount.

which lasted 106 miles and broke

No reponse from seller (3ddesigncentre) yet - would a more solid 3D print be better?
UPDATE: Seller has advised they think it was a faulty print and are provding a replacement.
Anyway decided the DIY approach was neccessary so the supplied Varia mount disassembled (2 bolts), a piece of plastic card cut and drilled to the spacing of the Varia mounts bolt holes and that then used as a template to drill through the end of the saddle bag on its rear light loop. Plastic card on the inside of the saddle bag, with now washer fitted bolts passsing through it and the bag for the mount fixed in place.

Slightly off centre - the O and G of Bontrager were the correct spacing and an easy drill alignment mark.