What Have You Fettled Today?

[PeteXXX]

Rrar mudguard successfully delivered to the correct house this lunchtime!
It will be fitted this afternoon.

I'll maybe keep the old one that's given way around the bridge bracket area and fix it up as a 'just in case' spare.

 

[Elybazza61]

Started stripping the old Trek commuter as it's unlikely to get used for anything (it's only about 10 minutes walk to the shops) and it's taking up space so started on the dismantling ; probably move the parts on and toss the frame in the loft.
Also have a Tern folder that I need to decide to keep or not.

 

[EckyH]

Began the buildup of the replacement for the Surly Preamble - inserted the bottom bracket, attached the cranks, pedals, headset, rear and front derailleur.

E.

 

[VinSumRox]

Cleaning up cassettes and bits for bike Jumble on Saturday and put the wheels with big tyres on the gravel bike for the morning ride.

 

[HLaB]

Back on the road. I played for an hour or so with the broken shifter on my commuter everything was moving freely but the release lever wasn't springing back internally when you shift up the cog. It could be pushed back freely internally and then it shifted down the cog fine. But it would do the same when shifted up the cog and you would again have to manually reset internally. I obviously couldn't do that on a ride so I had sourced 10sp shifters from a mate. Its 105 shifters and I had nice internally routed 10sp Ultegra. Hence the determination to get it working but I had to give up and fit the 10sp 105. Its mechanically fine but for now I have only changed the right shifter and reused the old bar tape. If I decide to make it permanent and fit the left shifter, bar tape is there. But for now it was just a case of getting back on the road.

 

[Gillstay]

Went to lok at 20 bikes to see which were worth doing up to save on waste. Just three came home with me. Cheap bikes + neglect + having a farm to just leave them in a corner = Scrap.

 

[EckyH]

Worked on the Preamble replacement: steerer is shorteneed, brake tabs are flat now, brakes are attached.
With a bit of luck my widest tyres will fit (there is 3mm space between the rear tyre and the front derailleur).

E.

 

[davidphilips]

Almost finished the raleigh reynolds this morning just waiting on a headset expander should be here in a few days quite diffucult to find as its for a one inch tube with an internal diamenter of 19mm, also had fun finding a carbon 27mm seat post apart from that build was very easy.

Built with mostly period Dura ace looks great and trying it on a turbo trainer gears change perfect, looking forward to a proper road test only concern is the head tube is shorter than i am use to.

Some time on internet shows these 853s where a frameset only and and could have custom sizes etc, if built custom they would have the frame builders initials along with the frame number, Could be bought as a complete bike and marketed as a Raleigh 700 and 800, the 700 could be alloy or reynolds 853 and the 800 titanium, made from 1995 to 2002 and only in there last 2 years in Raleigh special products where they made with oversize tubes.

 

[YMFB]

Fitted my new Tailfin long top tube bag

 

[cyberknight]

new shifter cable on the commuter which has sorted out the shifting but noticed the tyres have a fair few chunks out of them . They are my default commuter tyre zaffiro pros but i am finding the newer design with slicker tread not lasting very long at all compared to the older design with more of a tread pattern so i am on the hunt for an alternative .

 

[EckyH]

i am finding the newer design with slicker tread not lasting very long at all compared to the older design with more of a tread pattern, so i am on the hunt for an alternative.

What are your constraints for the new tyre? Width, cost, tubeless, puncture protection, longevity...?
In the foreseeable future I'll need a replacement for the Vittoria Ridearmor on the commuter. They are ok-ish for me, but I don't like them very much, because they are on the expensive and heavy side and rolling resistance could be lower. But I can't complain about longevity and puncture resistance - after a few hundred kilometers there is barely wear and I didn't have a puncture yet.

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[cyberknight]

What are your constraints for the new tyre? Width, cost, tubeless, puncture protection, longevity...?
In the foreseeable future I'll need a replacement for the Vittoria Ridearmor on the commuter. They are ok-ish for me, but I don't like them very much, because they are on the expensive and heavy side and rolling resistance could be lower. But I can't complain about longevity and puncture resistance - after a few hundred kilometers there is barely wear and I didn't have a puncture yet.

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i really got on with the zaffiro mk iv. the mark v seem to be not as good as a commuter tyre as they get chunks out of them very easily compared to the old design .
Currently looking around to see if i can get some mk iv in folding 622x28

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Fitted new sensor and cabled mount for my Cateye velo9 on my summer bike. The old mount was a bit worn from taking the speedo off and on so many times. I had a new one which I had`nt used when I replaced the speedo on one of my other bikes.
I had a strange thing happen the other afternoon with a Cateye Velo 7. I just started off and it was`nt registering anything. I stopped, checked the magnet, all OK. I started again, just the same. I stopped further down the road and gave the leads a wiggle and then hey presto it started to work. I can wiggle the wires now and still OK. Perhaps it was an alien force ! I`am old school when it comes to speedos and I am not talking about a swimming costume either before anyone asks !!

 

[Gunk]

Started on my latest Brompton project, always love working on a bike outside. The triangle is toast!

 

[Elybazza61]

Fettled the better half's Cotic including slapping lots of grease in the Halo freehub body to make it less aggressive sounding and started stripping the black Pelago rack to stainless.