What Have You Fettled Today?

[wisdom]

Top fettle today.
Bought a workstand from Lidl and set to work cleaning the roadie,further fettling tomorrow,lube check everything top up tyres.Ready for the Mancr to Bpool.
It certainly makes further fettling easier,good piece of kit for the money.

 

[Idoru]

Fitted an Aldi pannier rack to my Giant comfort possible commuter bike... And didn't break anything in the process :-)

 

[Saluki]

After taking the Spesh for a free service from Halfords, we had the bike up on the stand and gave it a gear service. After halfords had it the gear changing was sloppy and occasional at best. Now its all lovely again. Lesson learned.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Trekking Bars and bar tape applied to the Giant Nutra. Very impressed at the amount of improvement $30.00 US will get you. I may have to consider this for the other bicycles.

 

[the_mikey]

Replaced the HT2 bottom bracket shells with new ones.

 

[biggs682]

gave the latest arrival a quick lick round with some polish , swapped crankset over as original had a stuck pedal , then just before tea finished of getting another one ready for next weeks testing miles on my daily commute

 

[Gravity Aided]

My latest arrival may have to wait until the patient months of Winter set in, as it has an issue or two. Bar end shifters will be replaced with downtubes, and the seatpost will be unstuck, hopefully, but the bar end shifters and sealed hub wheels justify the US 30.00 price I paid for it.

 

[Gravity Aided]

It also has the Yamaha replacement fork, so it's been de-death forked already.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

gave the latest arrival a quick lick round with some polish , swapped crankset over as original had a stuck pedal , then just before tea finished of getting another one ready for next weeks testing miles on my daily commute

Oh, good! So I'm not the only one who planned to replace a crankset to 'remove' a stuck pedal. I've had a stuck left pedal on my Vivente tourer/commuter for some months, now, and have tried to remove it, but I suspect I'll end up taking the easy option, which is just to install the brand new crankset I bought a few months ago. A bit of a cop-out, I know, but I'm fed up with trying to remove that pedal.

Today on the abovementioned bike, after cleaning it, I replaced the front brake pads, re-clamped both brake cables and adjusted the brakes. All good to go for another 300km week of commuting. Is it sad that I'm sitting here on a Sunday evening, looking forward to my commute?

 

[biggs682]

@victor in the end my lbs managed to remove stuck pedal with aid of a big vice and a huge pr of mole grips !

but had already swapped crank set over

 

[Pumpkin the robot]

Your local bike shop uses mole grips?

 

[MOI]

Tonight after work I will be fettling my Cannondale by replacing the saddle with a Charge Scoop (heard good reports about them).

 

[Fnaar]

My fettling confidence is growing apace... had new cassette put on recently (needed lower gears). It was fine for a while but then in lowest gear (only used on biggest hills) it felt like cogs and jockey wheels were rubbing together, making am annoying (but not ride-stopping) noise and vibration. Googled a bit, and tried the 'reverse the b-screw' trick, and hey presto! Not only that, but I've learned to to index my gears properly on the way, and not be scared of touching them for fear of making it unrideable. All that and a tax rebate too. Good day, all in all!


[edit: hmm, gear fettling not so good out on the road... ]

 

[Moksha]

Not so much today but over the past few days. Replaced the chain on my hybrid as I had found the wear had proceeded past the 12 inch mark by just over a 1/16 - luckily the LBS still had some 7 speed left at closing time. Also built up my new workstand from Lidl and adjusted the front derailleur to make the shifting a little smoother. I panicked at one point as I couldn't get the chain to shift up to the highest chainring. After a night's sleep I managed to figure out what I had done and go figure it was the cable tension being too high to allow the FD to shift at all (in addition to the high limit screw). Starting from scratch and following a website's guide to the letter helped significantly!

Also my new toy arrived after spending some time in customs: after struggling to get the unit to stay upright using the old rubber shim from an old light, I managed to secure a new daylight running capable light: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18815821/IMAG0863.jpg (The light itself is the Xeccon Geinea R, which can be had for about £42 (+ £23 customs + VAT))

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Serviced my cousin's Carrera MTB. The rear hub needs a new bearing cone on the non-drive side due to pitting, but that has had to be ordered so it's all been regreased and gone back together for the time being. 1 ball bearing and the skewer spring missing from that side too.