Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You've Just Done

redvee

msmancunia wrote:

I am putting new mudguards on my bike tonight.

Given the trauma, damage, expense and prolific swearing that occurred when I attempted to take my chain off, I'd be very grateful for any Hail Mary's tonight about half seven pleaseandthankyou.

How much is in the swear box now?

msmancunia

redvee wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

I am putting new mudguards on my bike tonight.

Given the trauma, damage, expense and prolific swearing that occurred when I attempted to take my chain off, I'd be very grateful for any Hail Mary's tonight about half seven pleaseandthankyou.

How much is in the swear box now?

Surprisingly little! one when I broke a nail (not precious about nails but it hurt), and three when I was just struggling a bit to get things in the right places. Then one when a Mormon came to the door and I went and hid upstairs for a bit :oops:

redvee

msmancunia wrote:

......when a Mormon came to the door and I went and hid upstairs for a bit :oops:

Perhaps he was returning the towel he borrowed

asprilla

Stripped down the Roadrat to transfer everything onto the Peregrine frame. Well, almost. The star nut is spinning in the frame and all the bits and bobs I had to hand were either too short or too wide to fit up the fork and knock it out.

Stem, headset and fork still attached then.

Peregrine is booked into LBS on Saturday to have the headset pressed so I'll just leave it to them to deal with.

itboffin

Trek set up on the turbo in the garage

wheelset on the Ribble carbon sportive swapped back to summer, bike cleaned and hung up for winter

wheelset on Ribble alu swapped for winter, pannier rack, large saddle bag, multiple lights and reflectors attached, brake blocks adjusted and finally indexing and lube tweaked

asprilla

Transferred everything from the Cotic to the Singular tonight. Just needs a chain on and then the steerer cutting down and we are off.

It looks lovely.

cyclingprop

Built up the merlin frame. Realised I was missing a couple of bits so they're on order. Will look properly good once done. However a black frame with a white stem (build purposes only) looks crap

Swapped RD over from the commuter for the short cage in the spares box. Realised I also have a spare tiagra groupo. Ooops

MonkeyMonster

Ugh, old hubs are a bit buggered - stripped and re-molyd but need new front cones and rear tbh. BB replaced so no wiggle now. Might need to swap my cable routing over and cross the cables under the downtube.

edit: new brake blocks too - how nice are they before grabbing shit off the road.

question... so hubs are so old and unique circa 98 and the rims are fairly concave as well so new wheels potentially... Or does anyone have a pair of 26 inchers hanging about that can handle one inch wide tyres?

timothyw

Fitted a new longer stem (at a bargain £5 from Planet X) and had a ride on Sunday - so far so good. Might even slide the saddle forward a touch. Feels comfier and the ride is better now a bit more of my weight is over the front of the bike.

redvee

Fettling of a technical variety, updated the firmware on my Edge 800 tonight and now have the Virb Elite remote control functionality, the camera is coming in two weeks.

rubertoe

Fettled the front BB7 as braking felt a bit slack, so much better this morning. Will do the rear this evening.

asprilla

Started to chop the steerer on the Singular. Ran out of hacksaw blades.

rubertoe

There is a hisssssssss coming from the bike..... yet it doesnt feel like the tyre is deflating... better change it just in case.

Update:

'Twas a pinch flat from whatever I rolled over this evening... better to do it tonight than the morning so the hissing was a god send. Also took the torx keay to the rear BB7 while i was at it

redvee

After trashing the rim yesterday, bought and fitted the new rear wheel and adjusted the brake cable for a different width rim. Half way to work I realised when I set the cable up I didn't close the QR of the brake lever and not enough slack in the cable to sort it out.

itboffin

Swapped wheelset on the scott, now sporting RS10 with Rubino Pro's
Raised stack height on my pannier laiden Ribble winter - now looks even more goofy
Added a rear mudguard and saddle mounted bottle cage to my track SS commuter, added a layer of cloth bar tape over the dirty foam wrap.

dyrlac

Swapped 35mm sammy slicks for 28mm gatorskins. More excitingly, dropped approx. 1 cm of stem. Monday can't come soon enough.

Kieran_Burns

Bloody hell replacing a spoke on a rear wheel when you have discs is a pain in the hobo.

Had to remove both the cassette and the disc just to feed the thing through. Still all done and tightened up the other spokes, the rear wheel is now true and I'm in on the Felt for the first time ages.

asprilla

Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres removed from the Brompton and Kojaks put on instead. While I was there I changed the rim tape (Brompton bad / Velox good), swapped the grips (damaged in accident) and the seat post (4cm longer, feels great now). Also cleaned the chain.

Wanted to swap the pedals over too, but that's the problem with cycling; no upper body strength....

DrLex

Cleaned rims with BarKeep's friend for max. shininess - expect spectacular endo stopping potential on tomorrow's commute.

andy9964

Got round to fitting the pair of Gatorskins I bought two weeks ago. Also replaced the brake pads, after thinking the grating noise was some debri in the rubber, turned out to be the embedded retaining nut :shock:

Initialised

Pulled someone's wheel out of their derailer.

Kieran_Burns

Slight hiatus in the "fit new 105 groupset" plan for today.

Realised rather belatedly that the Felt has a BB30 bottom bracket and the 105 is a hollowtech 2.

Ar5e.

Wanders off to find a converter.. hello Wiggle.

Anyone know how to remove BB30 bearings without buying stupidly expensive tools?

rubertoe

LBS Kieran. LBS

I fixed two punctures. One at the meet point for the club run.

Kieran_Burns

rubertoe wrote:

LBS Kieran. LBS

I fixed two punctures. One at the meet point for the club run.

Might be easiest in the end... get it all stripped down and take a wander.

willy b

Fitted a new tube - tube exploded
Fitted a new tube - tube exploded
Rode 3 miles :roll:

Was only after my second tube fitting that I found out the sidewall of the tyre has a big slash in it, so the tube pokes through. New tyre time.

Not bad, first puncture in 7000 miles and this wasn't a traditional puncture.

ad_snow

willy b wrote:

Not bad, first puncture in 7000 miles and this wasn't a traditional puncture.

What tyres are you using?

willy b

ad_snow wrote:

willy b wrote:

Not bad, first puncture in 7000 miles and this wasn't a traditional puncture.

What tyres are you using?

Bontrager Racelite Hardcase. Don't seem to have too man fans, but they are cheap (£14 a tyre) and last a long time.

spasypaddy

spent two hours stripping and cleaning my bike yesterday. just to get rained on on the way home.

tgotb

If it's any consolation, I spent 40 mins racing yesterday, and then something like 2 hours cleaning the bike and drying/regreasing various bearings. I've come to the conclusion that rather than trying (and possibly failing) to avoid getting water in my BB30 bearings, it's easier to pressure wash the bike and then remove the bearing seals immediately, flush them out with GT-85 and regrease. After 5 mins trying to pull grass out of the rear mech I decided the easiest way to clean that was to take it apart too...

Kieran_Burns

TGOTB wrote:

If it's any consolation, I spent 40 mins racing yesterday, and then something like 2 hours cleaning the bike and drying/regreasing various bearings. I've come to the conclusion that rather than trying (and possibly failing) to avoid getting water in my BB30 bearings, it's easier to pressure wash the bike and then remove the bearing seals immediately, flush them out with GT-85 and regrease. After 5 mins trying to pull grass out of the rear mech I decided the easiest way to clean that was to take it apart too...

I came to that conclusion after cycling through the flood last Winter. As long as the water does not linger it seems to be fine.