What Have You Fettled Today?

[Deleted member 1258]

My Eastway had a new cassette and chain fitted last night.

 

[HLaB]

I fitted a new 2nd hand 172.5mm crankset the other week as mine was struck by the sh1tmano curse. The shop hadn't realised that my few months old 52t chainring had got damaged when the crankset failed so they gave me a temporary ring whilst mine was sent back under warranty (unfortunately the 2nd hand crank arms were not). The replacement 52t chainring came through the week so I fitted it tonight. At first go everything lined up but it refused to go that extra fraction of a mm to shift up from the 34 to the 52t. So I marginally tightened all the torx bolts, lubed the front mech and hey presto it shifts perfectly. When I drop the borrowed chainring off I may ask the shop to check the torque of the torx

 

[DCLane]

Cleaned my Raleigh SP Race commuter after a week's use commuting and other bits.

Then prepped son no. 2's Ridley Noah Fast for a race tomorrow in Hull, with his Cervelo as back-up. They may be short of entrants so I also got a spare wheel ready in case I need to step in to fill the start sheet (hope I don't have to!).

 

[GeekDadZoid]

Spent a few hours this morning sorting the bike I picked up a few months ago for the eldest. He is growing like there is no tomorrow at the moment so have tried to future proof a little. (is ore the seat post being reversed, we did that to get some measurements when swapping the stem)

After buying in the dark I realised is had a 7 speed wheel and cassette rather than the 9 speed it has shifters for. I was striping my old hybrid for parts so used the wheels from that with the Marathon Plus tyres, stuck a budget 11-34 9 speed cassette on, new chain and stuck the shorter stem on and he has enjoyed his first test ride. He wants to start riding to school as after 2 terms he is already fedup of the walk.

Got some new pedals incoming now and will spend a few hours replacing cables over the next week or so, but more for preventative maintenance than requirements.

 

[Gunk]

No dipped beam so after a lot of stripping, checking and swapping of parts.

It ended up being a loose relay buried under the rear seat

 

[HLaB]

I pumped up the tubeless tyres on my road bike. I had last pumped them up 3 or 4 weeks ago and although they felt hard it would have been niggling on the ride. The back had lost 15psi and the front less than 2psi (and most of that was probably just attaching the pump head). I'll probably check my gravel tyres in a bit but the barely loose any pressure over a month.

 

[DCLane]

What was supposed to be a simple set of tasks on the bikes this lunch-time has taken a bike longer:

- We've a pair of Fulcrum 5 wheels which son no. 2 used as his spares for winter training. Junior cassette off these, cleaned and standard cassette on. They're going onto my Raleigh SP commuter / winter bike.
- American Classic 10 speed wheels off the Raleigh, cleaned, Edco 11 speed cassette removed and a 10 speed cassette on as it has a 10-speed hub. All OK but ... the 500 mile tyres had rubber coming off both sidewalls. So ... new tyres onto those and I've put a new pair of Vittoria Rubino 2.0 Graphene on with the wheels going onto my Ridgeback Platinum audax bike.

This evening, rather than the rest of lunch-time, will now be spent setting up the audax bike for the Plains 300 this weekend.

 

[GeekDadZoid]

Lunch time tidy of the shed. Yes this is the after picture.

Also moved the Weehoo trailer that I use for the youngest back outside after its winter hibination. Hopfully get out with it this week.

edir - also fitted the hitch to the holdsworth.

 

[ChrisKz]

Finished building and converting 3 wheels . 2 x 20"x4.00 and a 26" x 4.00 . New hubs were used and 12g spokes ( from china as bloody expensive here in UK ) .. So built and trued . The old hub is the small one in the 1st pic , the new hub is to the left . the spoke length was 173mm ( i calculated this and was correct , I did double check and used a spoke ruler .( You can see that the wheel had rim brakes . so after rebuilding all sprayed up and 160mm discs on fronts and a 180mm for the rear .. I

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Fettling fail for me this afternoon , putting new cables, inner and outer, on my Eastway which has 2 x 10 gears, I'd replaced the left Brifter a couple of years ago,but apart from tweaking the indexing I hadn't worked on the rear gears since the days of friction shifters and I made a right cock up of it, despite watching how to do it video's I managed to end up with the cable inside the brifter, I fished it out and I'll get another cable and try again, I'm putting this down as part of the learning process.

 

[bikingdad90]

Nice simple fettle for me, I changed an inner tube.

 

[derrick]

Painted a wicker chair for a neighbour. Got the spray gun out for this one.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Fettling fail for me this afternoon , putting new cables, inner and outer, on my Eastway which has 2 x 10 gears, I'd replaced the left Brifter a couple of years ago,but apart from tweaking the indexing I hadn't worked on the rear gears since the days of friction shifters and I made a right cock up of it, despite watching how to do it video's I managed to end up with the cable inside the brifter, I fished it out and I'll get another cable and try again, I'm putting this down as part of the learning process.

All sorted tonight, brought a new cable this afternoon, fitted it no problem, then spent an hour fine tuning the indexing and its all sorted, I also found the cause of a minor problem, I'd noticed that the change between the two smallest cogs was prone to the chain jamming, it turned out that the mudguard bolt was a bit long and was catching the chain, I packed some washers under the head and all is well now.

 

[GeekDadZoid]

Mystery Dawes stripped down and ready to prep for a rattle can paint job.

Still unsure on the model and the lack of serial number confounds. Possibly a Horizon or Lightning but who knows.

 

[Andy in Germany]

What sort of rattlecan paint do you use @GeekDadZoid ? My rattlecan job is holding up okay but it scratches easily.