Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You've Just Done

veronese68

roger merriman wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Finally got a set of forks fitted to my son's road bike that work, the brakes fit and everything. Replaced a tube in the EPO's station hack, that was a case of "if it ain't broke don't fix it". She asked me to pump up her back tyre the other day, whilst I was at it I topped up the front. It would seem taking the pump off I pulled the valve a bit hard and broke the tube. Then had a fiddle with a couple of spare wheels that were kicking around the garage, overhauled a front hub and checked spokes on a couple of rear wheels that need broken spokes replacing.

Sounds like a good fettle!

Yes, very glad to get his bike back together, he was over the moon. I rode it over to my parents' in Wimbledon after I'd finished it to check all was well. That bike does ride very nicely. I'll have to bring it over and show you.

redvee

rjsterry wrote:

My ongoing quest to have the filthiest bike in London took a dent, as I gave everything a clean, and re-lube, particularly the drive train. Surprised how much of a difference it made this morning.

Parts of my frame have 2+ yr old dirt on them whereas other parts are spotless where I've worked on the bike and wiped the area down beforehand.

Agent57

After three visits from the PF in as many weeks, I thought the time had come to do battle once more with a new tyre.

The outcome...



It was the massive GASH in the old tyre wot dun it, guv!

Kieran_Burns

The label does not appear to be over the valve. Go back and do it again.

Agent57

Kieran_Burns wrote:

The label does not appear to be over the valve. Go back and do it again.

Not a f*cking chance, sunshine! Rules are there to be broken.

menthel

Agent57 wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

The label does not appear to be over the valve. Go back and do it again.

Not a f*cking chance, sunshine! Rules are there to be broken.

Not only did you break the rules, you have now made it more difficult to find the tiny, razor sharp flint that will cruelly penetrate your marathon+. I find lining up the label helps with puncture finding!

itboffin

sadly my commuter did not clean itself whilst locked up at station, balls!!! :evil:

talius

just changed all the brake pads. ended up dismantling and cleaning the front brake entirely as was more than a little cruddy. ho hum, my new flat has no way of running a hose and cleaning from a bucket just doesnt get everything. need to find a garage with a spray hose.

redvee

Talius wrote:

just changed all the brake pads. ended up dismantling and cleaning the front brake entirely as was more than a little cruddy. ho hum, my new flat has no way of running a hose and cleaning from a bucket just doesnt get everything. need to find a garage with a spray hose.

Baby wipes.

Kieran_Burns

Changed another spoke.

Looked carefully at the one I was changing and compared to the one I was replacing it with, it's cr*p. Really thin and naff.

I think I'm going to have to strip all the ones off the old wheel and spend some time swapping them over.

I am, however, getting really quick at stripping the cassette and disc off the rear wheel.

desweller

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Changed another spoke.

Looked carefully at the one I was changing and compared to the one I was replacing it with, it's cr*p. Really thin and naff.

I think I'm going to have to strip all the ones off the old wheel and spend some time swapping them over.

I am, however, getting really quick at stripping the cassette and disc off the rear wheel.

Thin is bad. Would you trust a thin chef? The same goes for spokes.

oldbazza

Went round all the bolts with a nice Teng torque wrench(borrowed from work).

menthel

menthel wrote:

Diagnosed and fixed weird slow puncture on the back. Valve had failed. Whilst I was fixing this I took the opportunity to replace the rim tape that was of limited quality on the stock tyres of the 00. Surprisingly easy to do!

Puncture on back again. Nowt obvious in tyre and on inspection hole on seam that would sit on inside of wheel against rim tape. Rim tape inspected and nothing.

Looks like another failure of a continental inner with no obvious cause- this time on a seam. Not happy but at least I only have schwalbe inners left!

redvee

Fitting the Knog Blinder Road 2 to the bike didn't work out as well as I hoped so put the Ghekko back on the head tube and the Blinder on my helmet with the supplied mount and multipurpose cable ties.

MisterMuncher

Used a Dremel to polish cups and cones and slipped in some 25 Grade bearings on a pair of cheap OEM Wheels, with low end Formula hubs. Made a staggering difference for the sake of a fiver and half an hour's footering. I've found myself wondering if it'd be worth doing the same on some decent wheels.

secretsam

Am about to swap out original wheels on the Sirrus hack bike for a pair of Fulcrum Racing 7s that are lying around...I figured a) the originals are pretty tired and b) I've a new cassette to fit anyway

Might go mad and fit some new brake blocks at the same time!

Koncordski

Changed from a 100mm to an 80 stem. Now feels as though my saddle position isn't quite right, may just have to pay for another bike fit.

Gallywomack

Had the day off today and upgraded the groupset on my bike to 105. I can confirm that a pipe wrench works a treat on a threaded BB if you don't have the proper tool. Bit of old bar tape to protect the BB from getting scuffed, and bob's yer uncle.

Only slightly worrying thing is that in the largest sprocket, the rear derailler is very close to the spokes - like about 2mm or possibly even less. I've set the limit screw so it can't move any closer but it's slightly concerning nonetheless. Have definitely put the requisite spacer in. Is this fairly standard? It really looks scarily close.

asprilla

Moved the saddle on the Burls forward by a cm at lunch time, which I should have done when longer stem on a while ago.

Much better. I've not enjoyed riding it that much for a while. The difference was such that I was quicker into the headwind home than I was with this morning's tailwind.

Initialised

Snapped my rear gear cable, frayed inside the shifter. Loads of loose bits of steel wire inside the shifter.

bucklb

New brake cables (inner & outer). Staggered by how much difference it's made to the brakes - nearly lost the back wheel when taking it for a test spin. And the outer cables are reflective too!

Replaced rear derailleur (and straightened the hanger slightly). Can now go down the gears properly.

I really ought to do these things a bit more often. Feels like a whole new bike. Now need to read up on how to service an aheadset. <Gulp>

dyrlac

Had been riding around the last three weeks with four (4!) spacers above the stem. Finally dug up the pipe cutter and after a couple of goes (I've heard of "measure twice and cut once", but I prefer it t'other way round), I now look like less of a chopper.

oldbazza

Trying and failing to get a roadracer rear mudguard to fit with a Conti 35 gp4000s after fitting the new Zonda wheels.

davis

Replaced the cables on my mate's long term Sirrus hybrid after we'd given it a bit of a strip-down clean.

I was defeated by a gear cable.

Just couldn't get the FD cable to work right. I've done it on other bike many times.... but this was awful. The gear cable only stood up to three goes at being fitted before getting chewed through. Gave up and dropped it back to 1x8.

No idea, and quite grumpy about the whole thing. Beer.

luv2ride

Changed the chain on my Tifosi CK7. Went from SRAM to KMC x10 and it's much, much quieter and shifts superbly. Love a silent running bike

Now considering doing the same on my CR1 as the original SRAM chain on that is even noisier than the Tifosi was - has less than a 1,000 miles on it though so seems a bit of a waste :?

rubertoe

The sounds of beautiful clean chain and cassette is a wonderful thing.

Trued a front wheel.

itboffin

Luv2ride wrote:

Changed the chain on my Tifosi CK7. Went from SRAM to KMC x10 and it's much, much quieter and shifts superbly. Love a silent running bike

Now considering doing the same on my CR1 as the original SRAM chain on that is even noisier than the Tifosi was - has less than a 1,000 miles on it though so seems a bit of a waste :?

I usually always run KMC chain but bought a full 105 groupset for my CR1 and naturally also fitted the chain, what I couldnt understand was the noise and sloppy shifting, much to my surprise Shimano chains are directional :shock:

Perhaps that's the same with your SRAM?

rjsterry

Some repairs to one of my winter jerseys. Not going to win any needlework awards, but should extend its life a bit more.

Initialised

So I got in covered in snow tonight. Decided to swap my seat post onto the MTB and put the Snowtyres on it. It was a right bar-steward to remove and I now have a big bruise in the middle of my hand from yanking the seat out. To top it all off the snow has melted now and there's not much chance of ice or more snow tomorrow (gutted) so I'm sticking with the road bike.

Anyway I cleaned the post and frame and it went back in OK. Now I'm guessing that swapping it between frames maybe wasn't a great idea as the carbon may have swollen from the grease used on the Alien post on the MTB. So is there a carbon assembly paste that will work on Aluminium or should I just use an old seat and get a suitably long post for the MTB and use a different seat?

Also my son has borked the rear wheel on his BMX, bent a spoke landing a jump, and the rim is as true as a Tory Manifesto so that'll need fixed along with his decals at it's six week service!

redvee

After hearing the odd noises coming from the drive train it was time to lube the chain and the internals of the Shimano MX30 freewheel.