What Have You Fettled Today?

[Elybazza61]

Noticed the rear tyre was down again on the bh's Cotic (have just been pumping it up and it's been holding for a few days), so had a closer look and noticed it was perished in a couple of places so decided to swap it for one of the same off another wheelset.

Old one off ok but the rim tape was damaged so had to remove that ,too a while to get it all off but after a wipe with brake cleaner got the new tape on and valve fitted; tyre popped on fine but then realised I'd put the tyre on the wrong way round ,so off and on again and sealant added once it was seated.

 

[Elybazza61]

Midnight start. Even more fun. Epic……👌

Had to cry off this now as have managed to get some kind of lurgy and spent most of the night coughing, a sore throat and a headache all made worse with this heat.

 

[Gunk]

Set up a workshop in the garden early to avoid the heat.

Removed the mudguards and rack of my Van Nicholas, gave it a clean and service as my son is pressing it into triathlon duties on Sunday.

I also finished off his new tatty Allez which has ended up as a bit more work than I originally anticipated, but for around £160 all in its come out quite well and rides smoothly, so perfect for a 2 mile commute into Oxford. I‘ve had a few Allez’s over the years, they’re a good light, simple bike, however they all seem to be completely knackered!

 

[iandg]

I've been playing with this for about a month. Converted my urban e-bike into a gravel bike. Remove lights, mudguards and carrier, swapped 38c Marathons for 47c Smart Sams, fitted smaller chainring (40 to 36t), swapped bars from Ergotec City Cruisers to On-One OGs, fitted a front crudcatcher and modified a rear Muckynutz to create a rear splash guard.

 

[chriswoody]

We bought a "new" second hand bike for my son the other day, a nice 2022 Cannondale hardtail. Looking it over I negotiated the price down due to the rear hub and freewheel being really rough and the chain and sprockets were worn out. The rest seemed to be fine as far as I could tell.

Back home I've stripped the rear hub and discovered it's drier than a desert in there, the freewheel is also completely shot.

After cleaning the races and the bearings I packed it with grease and popped it all back together. Then I fitted this little lot which included a brand new freehub body.

It was at this point that it all went pear shaped. I'd been umming and ahhing about whether to service the forks, in the end, given the state of the hub I decided I'd better. First things first was to drop the lower legs and it was then that I uncovered a horror show. The foam rings were beyond dried out and were completely broken down and stuck in one fork leg. The worst horror though was on the upper leg, adjacent to the crusty foam ring, were it must have been sat unused for a long time it was corroded.

This was really low down and under the level of the outer dust seal when the bike was sat unsagged, so I had completely missed it, I was really annoyed and angry, but I was in too deep now. Given its location, really low down, adjacent to the foam ring, I figured it wouldn't have too major an affect on the performance of the forks. So I decided to plow on and rub it lightly over with 2000 grit paper and Isopropyl. You can feel one or two small nicks with your nail, but hopefully we should be OK.

So I'm going for a full 200 hour service for these forks and I have the full service kit.

With the lower legs, dust seals and foam rings removed, it's time to move on to the air damper assembly and we soon have the internals on my bench. The oil and grease have turned a bit sticky, but it's really not too grim. I soon have it all cleaned up and new O rings installed.

So on to the damper assembly tomorrow, but that's all for tonight.