What Have You Fettled Today?

[ColinJ]

I tested the setup with the bike on my workshop stand. Very sudden gear changes did not cause any problems. I will go for a test ride later to see if it can now cope with Yorkshire's rough road surfaces !

The chain stayed on throughout a 30+ km test ride. I will be doing 50+ km over rough roads and long descents tomorrow so let's see if there are any chain problems on that.

 

[Binky]

On ride yesterday my speed/distance/cadence all went haywire. As I have speed and cadence sensors on bike(I don't rely on GPS on head unit as under tree cover and in some areas get poor reception). Anyway, it's happened before so I knew issue was a dead battery in one of them(cadence) which then affects the rest. I do carry a spare CR20232 but as was on group ride I didn't want to delay so just forgot sensors and used GPS so had speed and distance and just now got everything working again.

 

[avecReynolds531]

Took the 531 for a spin in the early sunshine. Though cycling technology & complexity seems to increase each year, there's still a lot of worth in how a Cyclone II GT* shifts a chain over a 5-speed freewheel: fantastic.

Back home, adjusted the High limit on the VX front derailleur, picked out debris from the Paselas, then cleaned & polished the bike.

* https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site/suntour_cyclone_mark-ii_gt_derailleur_3700.html

 

[avecReynolds531]

Never really happy with a Selle SMP that had arrived on a previous single speed - replaced this morning with a Selle Italia Mitica.
A good alternative to Brooks & fantastic value at the £39.99* sale price.
Reset seat post height & angle - all good.

*https://www.bananaindustries.co.uk/products/selle-italia-mitica-chrome-leather-saddle-black

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Never really happy with a Selle SMP that had arrived on a previous single speed - replaced this morning with a Selle Italia Mitica.
A good alternative to Brooks & fantastic value at the £39.99* sale price.
Reset seat post height & angle - all good.

*https://www.bananaindustries.co.uk/products/selle-italia-mitica-chrome-leather-saddle-black

I presume you tried tweaking the Selle SMP setup drop between rear and front peak from the standard 14mm?

 

[Jenkins]

Thanks to the remarkably good weather of recent, I've not had to do anything at all. Simply because today was a bit cloudy for a change, I took the opportunity to have a bike shed morning and six of the fleet now have cleaned and lubricated chains and the road & bridleway dust has been washed off all the frames and wheels.
The other two bikes didn't even need this doing as they've only had less than 50 miles use between them since it was last done.

 

[EckyH]

Changed my mind about the tyre choice for the Brother Allday.
So I broke a tyre lever as I put in fairly much effort to get a pair of 34mm Vittoriay Ridearmor onto the Mavic CXP33 rims.
Despite that weren't the first tyres I put on wheels it was difficult. Hopefully the approach to ride the tyres with the allowed maximum pressure of 600kPa will widen them slightly so that they will come off more easily.

The other fettling was to change the gear ratio from 49:20 to 44:19.

E.

 

[cyberknight]

flipped the stem on the weigh cx build and it feels a lot better then sorted the indexing as it was off followed by tightened the screw on the plastic cover in the shifter as it was rattling.
finally replaced the frame protection strips with something the right colour .

 

[palinurus]

Old Surly Pacer looks tired, I've been running the transmission into the ground as I'm thinking of a total rebuild. Dismantled today down to frame & forks.

Sent it away for stuck seatpost removal (The Seatpost Man, Chorley). New seatpost now installed with a good amount of grease.

Decided to do away with the Hollowtech BB so I could replace the Tiagra crankset with a Stronglight, even had a suitable BB in the bits box.

I couldn't screw it in! sure the thread was OK. Maybe I'd have to get it fixed! Then I realised the cable guide was still fitted and the little bolt was a bit long so the BB just wouldn't go in quite straight. All lovely after that. Put the new cassette on the wheel, enough for today.

 

[ColinJ]

I put a TRP Spyre brake on the rear of my CAADX, to replace an awful Promax brake. The old brake is so bad that I am scrapping it rather than storing it for ever in my spares (junk!) box.

While I was working on the bike I took a look at the front brake (a TRP HY/RD) and realised that I had made a mistake when I originally fitted it. I had put some washers on the wrong side of the post mount spacer. That meant the calliper was slightly too close to the edge of the disk and the pads were too far in relative to the braking surface. I sorted that out. It looks much better, might work better, and sounds quieter.

The cones in the rear hub had some minor pitting which caused graunchiness as the wheel rotated. I will try to find some replacement cones (or buy a new/better wheel) but for now I have carefully buffed off the sharp edges of the pitting. It's a bit of a bodge but the wheel does rotate more smoothly.

 

[Drago]

Moved the Subway E in thr garage so I could get to the big container of dog food. Noticed the seat was dusty so gave it a wipe.

 

[cyberknight]

Set up ready for another try at commuting next week

 

[chriswoody]

My new Hope rotor arrived today,so I threw that on the gravel bike. After several years of using the original SRAM rotors and suffering heat warpage, I've decided to go for Hope floating rotors that match the Hope calipers I'm using. Unsurprisingly the larger braking surface profile matches the pad profile much better and should give much better braking over long descents.

I also replaced the tatty old chainstay protection with some new film and wiped and lubed the chain.

 

[fossyant]

Washed two very dusty bikes. That means they have had use (post broken pelvis). The CX bike had turned grey after today's ride.

 

[HLaB]

Topped up the sealant in my gravel bike tyres. I had a p'ture in my rear tyre back in January that wouldn't seal at lower pressures with Peaty's. I cleaned it out and replaced it with Orange seal back then but I left the front tyre as is (with Peatys). So tonight I had to top up both Orange Seal rear and Peatys front.

Separately, I rebalanced the back brake on my road bike.