Do you carry soap when you are out on a ride.🤷🏼♂️
What Have You Fettled Today?
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Do you carry soap when you are out on a ride.🤷🏼♂️
Only use soap to seat the tyre, especially on a Brompton. Everything I can get on the rim without any tools. I volunteered as a bike mechanic for a couple of years and a very experienced mechanic showed me the technique.
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
PANARACER tyres: being Japanese - are supposed to come up dead on size with no leeway. When fitted new; my shop took 35 minutes for the rear. The owners Son (Young - but probably changed more tyres than me you and everyone else in this thread combined) said it was about if not the worst combo he’d ever come across.
And I suspect I’m only able to get on now - as it’s stretched / settled / been used for a few months etc. I’m sure there’s worse - but this is supposedly up there amongst the very best.
I broke both sides of the tyre off the bead, and worked into the centre of the rim as best I could. I had a few goes and was really going nowhere - the last part of the tyre on the last side being nowhere near going on. Then voila - I could see it was closer: so one final roll / push with my now raw thumbs and on she went.
**Are you saying you literally roll the wheel around to force the tyre up into the smallest radius of the rim - to then buy yourself space to hand fit the tyre ?
**Id love to see a video / link to someone on YouTube etc doing similar to help me fully understand your method……
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Bear with me with this one ... there is some bike-related content ... just!
Last week the new kettle I'd bought developed a crack around the silver plastic rim, exposing the wiring. A refund was quickly issued by the online river-named retailer. But ... it was less than two months old. Surely it could be repaired rather than just thrown away?
So ... I used the heat-proof flexible sealant which had some left after working on the driveshafts of the Chrysler Ypsilon and made a flexible additional section in the crack, using several layers to mimic the ridged silver band. Then some white Humbrol paint as a base layer and finally the gilding paint I'd used on the Peugeot PY10-LS Professional frameset repair as a top layer. Looks almost genuine and I've got a free kettle as a result.
Last week the new kettle I'd bought developed a crack around the silver plastic rim, exposing the wiring. A refund was quickly issued by the online river-named retailer. But ... it was less than two months old. Surely it could be repaired rather than just thrown away?
So ... I used the heat-proof flexible sealant which had some left after working on the driveshafts of the Chrysler Ypsilon and made a flexible additional section in the crack, using several layers to mimic the ridged silver band. Then some white Humbrol paint as a base layer and finally the gilding paint I'd used on the Peugeot PY10-LS Professional frameset repair as a top layer. Looks almost genuine and I've got a free kettle as a result.
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Did the final layer of basecoat on the Boardman, will put that to one side now for a couple of weeks before giving it a light wetsand in preparation for airbrushing.
Hoping my 160-180mm adapter for my front brake arrives tomorrow so I can get the new rotor on and bedded in before Critical Mass on Friday!
Hoping my 160-180mm adapter for my front brake arrives tomorrow so I can get the new rotor on and bedded in before Critical Mass on Friday!
