What Have You Fettled Today?

[cyberknight]

Long time rider from various clubs who lives in the same village bought his bike around as the shifter plate had fell off on his last ride and hes not mechanically minded so i put it on which was literally a 5 min job but also noticed his brakes which are cable discs didnt have barrel adjusters on so the only way to adjust cable tension was to use the bolt . He did buy it second hand and is a decent bike but its not something i would have missed .

 

[Chief Broom]

Havent fettled much for some time, just basic maintenance but decided today to clean the winter grot off the derailleur Im not a fan of 'if it aint broke' but sometimes its right, I once cleaned a derailleur and managed to shift some grit into the mechanism....so i had a dirty derailleur working perfectly and now i had a shiny clean one that didnt.
Anyhow i was rusty in what goes where but it came back to me pretty quick and soon had a squeaky clean functioning derailleur even after replacing the cable wire after discovering a broken strand.
Made a bit of a mountain out of a mole hill though! im short sighted and have to keep taking my specs of for the fiddly bits and then splash white spirit in my eye rummaging and squinting into my drawers of miscellaineous gubbins trying to find a wire crimp thingy but its sorted and i can sleep the sleep of the righteous only cyclists with immaculate derailleurs can!