What Have You Fettled Today?

[CXRAndy]

Fitted new intermediate sprag gear/bearing

The bearing is not supposed to fall out of the plastic worm drive.

New bearing and upgrades to crank shaft additional supporting bearings

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Patched three tubes, an old one plus yesterday's two punctures. Yesterday's second came with a pretty big gash in the tyre, so need to keep an eye on that. Decided against slaughtering a goat in the end.

The hinge pin (if that's what it's called) in my Wahoo mount has an annoying habit of working its way loose, and noticing it was once again half way to freedom, took it all the way out and reinserted with threadlock. Probably a bad idea!

 

[ettick 25]

Out on the Pashley Sovereign today and needed a slight adjustment of the gear change. Now all back to normal after consulting my “online” oracle.
Ettrick

 

[Elybazza61]

Spent most of the afternoon looking for a pair of XT pedals in the shed but didn't find them.

 

[sevenfourate]

Filled in the ends of both gear lever pins that were showing surface rust: with a dab of black Hammerite paint….. after a thorough clean, lube, chain strip and wax etc

 

[Elybazza61]

Spent most of the afternoon looking for a pair of XT pedals in the shed but didn't find them.

Finally found them in a box of stuff in the loft

 

[Andy in Germany]

Finally found them in a box of stuff in the loft

Should have started there: then they'd be in the shed.

 

[All uphill]

Does making pesto count?

A neighbour rescued a bike from the local recycling place and didn't need my help, so I offered to make pesto using some of his pungent basil.

Yum.

 

[SteveO69]

Replaced the flat pedals on the SS commuter, with some old SPD’s.
Tried to replace a cassette on my road bike but realised I had the wrong chain whip. Mine is a track one.
Replaced the jockey wheels and cleaned up a 9 speed Ultegra rear mech and chain set.

All made all the more difficult with having 4 stitches in my left palm, following a blade / hand altercation, last Wednesday.

 

[Jenkins]

Took delivery of a couple of out front style mounts for the Garmin GPS yesterday so, with the one I already had in stock, had a bit of a swap round over the fleet. The three most worn/rattly old ones were identified and binned, the new mounts fitted to the most used bikes, and others swapped around as necessary.
New tyres were also fitted to the PlanetX and a longer then planned test ride had.

 

[fossyant]

Commuter has done 18 months on cassette, chain and large chain ring. Decided to replace as pretty worn and a bit grumbly in lower gears after a good chain clean. It was a basic KMC Z chain, where I usually use the X ones. This time it's a SRAM 870 (8 speed) and SRAM cassette I had in stock. New, old Skool chain ring fitted to the vintage Shimano chainset.

Time to pop in an order for spares for next time.

 

[the_mikey]

Yesterday I fitted new bearings in my Wahoo Kickr Core. Today I checked sealant levels in my tyres.

 

[avecReynolds531]

Recently bought these new SPD type pedals for in a £10 sale (including cleats): https://www.bananaindustries.co.uk/...ts/wilier-pd-sm01-mtb-spd-pedals-ball-bearing

The bearings were set too tightly & there was a design feature that wrecked my brain for a long while*: no space for needle nose pliers or the smallest flat blade screwdriver to hold the cone in place while the locknut is adjusted by an 8mm socket.

Two points: no washers between cone/ locknut & an anti-clockwise thread on the right pedal.

All 4 sets of loose bearings were syringed with new grease, thin washers (from V-brake blocks) were fitted over the cones before replacing the lock nuts & the anticipated challenge of bearing adjustment.

What finally worked was backing the cones way out with tweezers, and with much retry, retry, retry, managing to guess where the fully tightened locknut & an ideal bearing preload could be set. The second pedal was much easier & now both have no lateral play and are spinning very freely. Soon they'll be attached to some cranks & out into the world.

Probably made by Wellgo - time will tell how durable they are. It was a rewarding test of patience.




* I'm not gifted at all in finding the answers for problems in bike mechanics. Up north they would say: "Yer no' the shiniest spanner in the tool kit."

 

[fossyant]

Recently bought these new SPD type pedals for in a £10 sale (including cleats): https://www.bananaindustries.co.uk/...ts/wilier-pd-sm01-mtb-spd-pedals-ball-bearing

The bearings were set too tightly & there was a design feature that wrecked my brain for a long while*: no space for needle nose pliers or the smallest flat blade screwdriver to hold the cone in place while the locknut is adjusted by an 8mm socket.

Two points: no washers between cone/ locknut & an anti-clockwise thread on the right pedal.

All 4 sets of loose bearings were syringed with new grease, thin washers (from V-brake blocks) were fitted over the cones before replacing the lock nuts & the anticipated challenge of bearing adjustment.

What finally worked was backing the cones way out with tweezers, and with much retry, retry, retry, managing to guess where the fully tightened locknut & an ideal bearing preload could be set. The second pedal was much easier & now both have no lateral play and are spinning very freely. Soon they'll be attached to some cranks & out into the world.

Probably made by Wellgo - time will tell how durable they are. It was a rewarding test of patience.

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* I'm not gifted at all in finding the answers for problems in bike mechanics. Up north they would say: "Yer no' the shiniest spanner in the tool kit."

That explains why they are cheap. Shimano much better made. But at £10 you can't complain.

 

[Willd]

Fitted some new brake blocks to the Winter bike, probably due after at least 12,400 miles Added its third lot of bar tape too.

Not too much life left in the old ones