What Have You Fettled Today?

[Ming the Merciless]

Oiled the chain

 

[HLaB]

Took a minute, wiped down my chain on my commuter with baby wipe, and a soft cloth after. Before dripping a drop of drip wax on each roller. I think I marginally wipe and relube than I did with lube but that's outweighed by components lasting longer, clean hands and no chain tattoo etc. The frame needs a proper clean but that'll wait until the weekend.

 

[Drago]

Put all the bikes away properly as they were strewn across the passage, shed and the house.
Then cleaned and sharpened all the secateurs.

Nothing worse than a bike strewn up yer passage.

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Yet another clean of the chain and running gear. The chain always takes on a different colour at this time of year. Does anyone else find that ? Around here, being a heavy clay soil, the run off gives the chain the same colour.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

New rear tyre on my bike. Was hoping at least another week or two out of tyre but it signalled it is time to retire it. Audax tomorrow and don't want to be messing around in the forecast rain.

 

[EckyH]

Switched the wheel sets including the change of cassettes and tyres: the Van Rysel NCR AF got the new built wheel set, the Ridley X-Ride with disc brakes got the wheel set from the NCR AF and the construction site Ridley Kanzo A got the wheel set from the Ridley X-Ride.

E.

 

[Jenkins]

One bike deep cleaned and chain cleaned/lubed after Wednesday's ride on mucky roads, three bikes given a basic clean and chain clean/lube after rides on less mucky roads over the past fortnight.

 

[Elybazza61]

Thursday partially done the rear dynamo cable re-route through the frame; had to add a short piece of cable so it was long enough.

Just need to finish connecting up to the cable from the mudguard.

 

[cyberknight]

greased the bearings on the commuter rear wheel which meant a lot of cursing as the loose ball bearings kept falling out as i turned the wheel trying to regrease everything and i even lost one somewhere so its a good job i kept a pot of spares .I gave the freehub a good clean and put it all back together eventually
The cassette looks a little worn but i didnt have one in stock so im am liable to run it through another month till the weather improves and next job is to clean the chain and check the wear followed by trying to sort out the seized barrel adjuster on the rear brake which looks like i will have to disconnect the cable and use a pair of pliers to get it out before lubing and reinstalling it .

 

[cyberknight]

Well that was fun as i had to use pliers to get the barrel adjuster off destroying the plastic bit in the process , luckily i had another set of the same brand brakes in stock so i pinched one off that and gave the threads a good lube which seemed to have fixed it .
Onto getting the gears to index and that has a similar issue so i will have to replace the barrel adjuster on the RD too but at least i have them working properly atm and as i suspected the chain and cassette both need replacing and i guess the large chain ring too .
This bike has had a hard life commuting in all weathers so its no surprise it needs some tlc .

 

[Elybazza61]

Finished the dynamo cabling on the Faran so now all working again with tidier routing.

 

[C R]

A new rear mudguard in my road bike. This is the third, the previous two broke near the bridge, though the curve is smooth, so no stress as far as I can see. I now have two front bluemels spare. If this third one goes the same way I'll have to try a different model.

 

[fossyant]

Need to run a slight tweak/experiment on the commuter.

It's old Deore XT and LX. 7 speed shifters running a 8 speed cassette with a sprocket removed. This means running 8 speed 3mm spacers. 7 speed is 3.1mm.

Doesnt really make any difference other than in the last but one sprocket, rough ground can bounce the chain onto the bottom sprocket. Never usually an issue, but this weeks tailwinds had me using them (only a 44T big chainring). Plan is to swap out a 3mm spacer (before last two sprockets) for a 3.5 or 3.85mm from the parts box.

Edit. Done. A 2mm and a 1.85mm spacer

fitted. Minor adjustment to mech limit.

 

[Shearwater Missile]

I know that us cyclists are quite resourceful. I have two hi-viz light jackets, one of which has very billowy sleeves and so I rarely use that one for cycling. The body part is just a good fit so I thought what if I cut the sleeves off and make it into a gilet. Looking at the sleeves they are trimmed where they are attached to the body. I thought well I was going to bin it anyway so lets give it a try. Sleeves cut off and you`d never know, unless up really close that it was`nt a gilet. Job done, no more flapping material and just a good lightweight covering as an outer layer to temper the breeze. Why did I not think of doing it before ?

 

[EckyH]

Adjusted the cockpit of the new commuter: lowered the stem, changed the position of the Ergopowers more upwards, turned the handlebar downwards a few degrees. The test ride confirmed that it is a bit better now.

E.