Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You've Just Done

Sharkyssurfers

or what you could do is find a really busy road, pump up the tube and shout go go go and make the tube go pop and see how many folks run :evil: :twisted:

PerformingMonkey

goonz wrote:

After much fettling, its finally ready

Drool!

DrLex

itboffin wrote:

i need to actually go and repair the hole in my tyre through which the inner tube keeps poking its head, and in case you're wondering just lowering your pressure is NOT a perm. fix

By "repair", do you mean "work-around"?


Oh, and +1 on goonz' new ride.

rolf_f

DrLex wrote:

itboffin wrote:

i need to actually go and repair the hole in my tyre through which the inner tube keeps poking its head, and in case you're wondering just lowering your pressure is NOT a perm. fix

By "repair", do you mean "work-around"?

A true 'that London' solution! Surely the whole point of avoiding buying a new tyre for the very trivial reason that there is a hole in the sidewall is to go and botch up an appropriately bodgy solution. Unless you buy your gaffer tape embossed from Rapha.....

Solution number 1 - a piece of cardboard.
Solution number 2 - a piece of toothpaste tube
Solution number 3 - a piece of old tyre glued to the tyre inner
Solution number 4 (if all else fails) - a new tyre.

UndercoverElephant

Rolf F wrote:

A true 'that London' solution! Surely the whole point of avoiding buying a new tyre for the very trivial reason that there is a hole in the sidewall is to go and botch up an appropriately bodgy solution. Unless you buy your gaffer tape embossed from Rapha.....

Solution number 1 - a piece of cardboard.
Solution number 2 - a piece of toothpaste tube
Solution number 3 - a piece of old tyre glued to the tyre inner
Solution number 4 (if all else fails) - a new tyre.

Gaffer tape, Shirley.

menthel

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

A true 'that London' solution! Surely the whole point of avoiding buying a new tyre for the very trivial reason that there is a hole in the sidewall is to go and botch up an appropriately bodgy solution. Unless you buy your gaffer tape embossed from Rapha.....

Solution number 1 - a piece of cardboard.
Solution number 2 - a piece of toothpaste tube
Solution number 3 - a piece of old tyre glued to the tyre inner
Solution number 4 (if all else fails) - a new tyre.

Gaffer tape, Shirley.

Would be stronger than the sidewalls of most conti tyrers!

itboffin

Nah its a simple 5 Mon repair with some tube glue and a medium patch. Bonds perfectly and as has been said is actually stronger than any conti sidewall.

menthel

itboffin wrote:

Nah its a simple 5 Mon repair with some tube glue and a medium patch. Bonds perfectly and as has been said is actually stronger than any conti sidewall.

You could patch it with dairylea and it would still be stronger than any conti sidewall.

MisterMuncher

Finished! Maybe...

itboffin

menthel wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Nah its a simple 5 Mon repair with some tube glue and a medium patch. Bonds perfectly and as has been said is actually stronger than any conti sidewall.

You could patch it with dairylea and it would still be stronger than any conti sidewall.

aye

itboffin

i thought it only right that I clean the ribble sportive after the sterling work it did yesterday, a nice foam & water shower in the moonlight with me wearing my slippers & dressing gown.

its a good job i know my neighbors really well

Wheelspinner

itboffin wrote:

i thought it only right that I clean the ribble sportive after the sterling work it did yesterday, a nice foam & water shower in the moonlight with me wearing my slippers & dressing gown.

its a good job i know my neighbors really well

You know the rules... POIDH

Oh wait, on second thoughts...

sloppyschleckonds

Just pre-stretched a tubular tyre

It is a Vittoria Pave CG 25mm

slowbike

itboffin wrote:

Nah its a simple 5 Mon repair with some tube glue and a medium patch. Bonds perfectly and as has been said is actually stronger than any conti sidewall.

Tried that - didn't stick

Back to the gaffer tape then ...

itboffin

an evening of fettling switching from winter to summer wheels and tyres and finally cleaning and greasing my record headset for the first time since i fitted it in 2008, the crown race is split which i suspect was from last weekends Rapha ride and the bearing cups starting to pit but still a good few months of life left yet.

If you're interested Phil Woods bearing grease is the business for such jobs

I also managed to explode an inner tube, feck me those things are loud that ***ring*** will last for hours

asprilla

Settled down to index the gears on the hybrid.

Suddenly remembered that I had a chain tensioner in the garage from many years ago when I built me first SS. Removed rear mech, cassette and shifter, fitted 18t sprocket with spacer kit and tensioner.

Just need to wait for the Burls to come back as it's currently wearing the hybrid's pedals.

itboffin

anyone know how to use a lezyne HP pump without unscrewing the little nut off the tube valve?

DrLex

Ultegra Hollowtech BB changed on the Roubaix to see whether that solves the occasional clicking when pedalling. Over 3,000 miles on the original one and £14 for a new one, so no complaints.

redvee

Had a snakebite visit on the way to work but meant it was just a tube change to get going again but when I put the wheel back in the frame I managed to bend one of the steel frame liners on my Tricross, straightened it out but can't get the screws to bite so have abandoned it for the time being, the chaintugs protect the frame where the liners were.
A quick google says they're like rocking horse dung

Doris Day

Wheelspinner wrote:

itboffin wrote:

i thought it only right that I clean the ribble sportive after the sterling work it did yesterday, a nice foam & water shower in the moonlight with me wearing my slippers & dressing gown.

its a good job i know my neighbors really well

You know the rules... POIDH

Oh wait, on second thoughts...

Next time, use the belt that came with the dressing gown :shock:
Good job it was a cold night

UndercoverElephant

itboffin wrote:

anyone know how to use a lezyne HP pump without unscrewing the little nut off the tube valve?

Trick 1: get tubes with non-removable cores. This is the best idea.
Trick 2: use a pair of pliers to tighten the cores on your spare tubes really tight.

What are removable cores actually good for, anyway?

asprilla

UndercoverElephant wrote:

itboffin wrote:

anyone know how to use a lezyne HP pump without unscrewing the little nut off the tube valve?

Trick 1: get tubes with non-removable cores. This is the best idea.
Trick 2: use a pair of pliers to tighten the cores on your spare tubes really tight.

What are removable cores actually good for, anyway?

I've been known to put thread lock on them.

Aren't they for use with valve extenders?

meanredspider

Asprilla wrote:

UndercoverElephant wrote:

itboffin wrote:

anyone know how to use a lezyne HP pump without unscrewing the little nut off the tube valve?

Trick 1: get tubes with non-removable cores. This is the best idea.
Trick 2: use a pair of pliers to tighten the cores on your spare tubes really tight.

What are removable cores actually good for, anyway?

I've been known to put thread lock on them.

Aren't they for use with valve extenders?

I've always thought that Lezyne screw-on pumps are silly and old-fashioned. By that's just my opinion.

Valve extenders (that I have, at least) just screw on over the normal valve stem - leaving the valve assembly unscrewed but in place.

It is useful if a valve gets damaged or gummed up. On London to Edinburgh last year, I got a flat (GP4000Ss again), put on my replacement tube and there was a problem with the valve. I just pinched the valve from my holed tube and I was away.

itboffin

Its not the whole valve just the tiny screw on the end

goonz

itboffin wrote:

Its not the whole valve just the tiny screw on the end

If you dont already, try releasing all the pressure with the ABS button first. Also if the hand pumps are like my floor pump the screw on part has a separate part which you can hold whilst screwing on the valve.

Or simply try screwing the removable valve on tighter onto the inner tube first...

rolf_f

meanredspider wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

UndercoverElephant wrote:

itboffin wrote:

anyone know how to use a lezyne HP pump without unscrewing the little nut off the tube valve?

Trick 1: get tubes with non-removable cores. This is the best idea.
Trick 2: use a pair of pliers to tighten the cores on your spare tubes really tight.

What are removable cores actually good for, anyway?

I've been known to put thread lock on them.

Aren't they for use with valve extenders?

I've always thought that Lezyne screw-on pumps are silly and old-fashioned. By that's just my opinion.

It seems hard to find a pump with a lever valve lock on where the lever isn't part of the pump body. The flexible hose is far superior to using a small pump where the body of which locks over the valve - ideally you'd have a lever on the hose rather than the screw fitting but then there's the problem of bulk.

It's not ideal (the screw fixing is fine as long as there is a screw thread on the inner tube and that it is in good condition but I have had problems there).

Thing is, just because something has been around a long time doesn't mean that what has come along since is actually an improvement. Often it isn't.

slowbike

redvee wrote:

Had a snakebite visit on the way to work but meant it was just a tube change to get going again but when I put the wheel back in the frame I managed to bend one of the steel frame liners on my Tricross, straightened it out but can't get the screws to bite so have abandoned it for the time being, the chaintugs protect the frame where the liners were.
A quick google says they're like rocking horse dung

wtf is a a steel frame liner?!

redvee

Slowbike wrote:

wtf is a a steel frame liner?!

On Specialised Tricross Single and Langster Alu frames there are small metal plates on the dropout to stop the wheelnuts/locknuts chewing up the frame, something like this.



Mine have two holes, not three.

Sharkyssurfers

well yesterday I fitted new 50t outer chainring, new Pushfit BB, chain and cassette for the first time saving me money in labour and it all went smoothly, its amazing how much water was in the frame once the bb came out and gunk, also trued the rear wheel up a bit using my turbo trainer to spin the wheel , so all in all quite proud of myself

goonz

Sharkyssurfers wrote:

well yesterday I fitted new 50t outer chainring, new Pushfit BB, chain and cassette for the first time saving me money in labour and it all went smoothly, its amazing how much water was in the frame once the bb came out and gunk, also trued the rear wheel up a bit using my turbo trainer to spin the wheel , so all in all quite proud of myself

Good going, does that mean you will be on the road again?