Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You've Just Done

Kieran_Burns

Initialised wrote:

I took it to KB Cycles, they got it off in a few seconds, it took two of them.

I'm so good. 8)

daddy0

Funnily enough I have just had the exact opposite experience to Initialised. I took my bike in to the LBS for a service a while ago. Cost a fortune, and pretty much every bolt they touched has since come loose. The last one was the cassette lock ring.

So last night I took the back wheel to bits and cleaned and lubed the drive train.

Here is a list of things that came loose after my LBS service:
Bolts on stem causing my bars to slip and me to come off
One of the saddle bolts
FD bolt almost causing crash
Chainring bolts
BB30 bolt
Cassette lock ring
Also, BB bearings were noisy as hell after they installed them - seem to have bedded in now?!


I put the bike in as a treat for myself, in order to make it "as good as new". I'm never letting anyone else work on any of my bikes ever again.

elbowloh

Initialised wrote:

NitrousOxide wrote:

Two seconds or two staff... Or both?

Two staff, one on the wrench, one on the whip.

Is that a line from a hip-hop record?

desweller

Daddy0 wrote:

Funnily enough I have just had the exact opposite experience to Initialised. I took my bike in to the LBS for a service a while ago. Cost a fortune, and pretty much every bolt they touched has since come loose. The last one was the cassette lock ring.

So last night I took the back wheel to bits and cleaned and lubed the drive train.

Here is a list of things that came loose after my LBS service:
Bolts on stem causing my bars to slip and me to come off
One of the saddle bolts
FD bolt almost causing crash
Chainring bolts
BB30 bolt
Cassette lock ring
Also, BB bearings were noisy as hell after they installed them - seem to have bedded in now?!


I put the bike in as a treat for myself, in order to make it "as good as new". I'm never letting anyone else work on any of my bikes ever again.

In my chequered experience, bike shop greasemonkeys are usually in the 'not-quite-good-enough-to-work-on-cars' bracket. At least automotive garages are accustomed to keeping their kit calibrated and maintained according to a schedule; I bet most LBS torque wrenches (if they even have them) don't ever see a torque gauge after they leave the factory.

daddy0

DesWeller wrote:

In my chequered experience, bike shop greasemonkeys are usually in the 'not-quite-good-enough-to-work-on-cars' bracket. At least automotive garages are accustomed to keeping their kit calibrated and maintained according to a schedule; I bet most LBS torque wrenches (if they even have them) don't ever see a torque gauge after they leave the factory.

I agree. When I initially complained I did suggest that their torque wrench might be out of whack. They did say that it'd been used every day for over 2 years since they bought it and they have since sent it off for calibration.

Initialised

elbowloh wrote:

Initialised wrote:

NitrousOxide wrote:

Two seconds or two staff... Or both?

Two staff, one on the wrench, one on the whip.

Is that a line from a hip-hop record?

No, it's one of those disgusting internet memes, you must have seen it by now.

Anyway, the fettle fest continues.

My MTB now has matching grips. Four drill bits, one burnt thumb and ten Dremel cutting discs later (bolt heads were chewed) :oops:
I also bled the rear brake, but it's still a bit noisy so I'll probably swap it out if the bedding in procedure doesn't sort it.

The road bike has a new KMC X9 Red chain (red = faster right?), slightly tighter gearing and I finally got around to trimming down the brake hoses.

It's turning into a bit of a freak, SLX cassette, 105 derailer, Sora shifters

greg66_tri_v2.0

Feck me, even by my standards this has been a spectacularly stupid display of fettling.

Having decided to immerse myself in tubular a I realised my front tyre wasn't holding air. Not one to do things by halves I decided to replace the tyre and clean the rim. That disclosed tufo tape had been used by the previous owner. So for 40 mins I picked away at it, wearing my thumb nail down to almost nothing.

Which would have been a good time to stop.

Instead I decided to remove the rear (perfectly good) and match the tyres. The rear as it turned out had been put on with what I think was extreme tufo tape. Removal destroyed the tyre and left a ton of sticky residue on the rim, on top of the sticky glue.

Hmm, I thought. Solvent abuse time.

Acetone did nothing. Ditto white spirit. Degreaser softened it and made it even more sticky (if that were possible). An hour later I'm getting nowhere. This is like trying to get warm chewing gum off more warm chewing gum.

"Bloody hell", I thought, "why doesn't tufo make something that will get this crap off? Like a rim cleaner?". And then I sat upright, and remembered that I'd had something delivered to me only last week. In a double zip locked bag, sealed with duck tape. Tufo Rim Cleaner would be it.

That shit is like Alien blood. 10 mins and the rim is done.

Shame about my memory though. Still, perhaps all the solvents I've inhaled today will improve it.

UndercoverElephant

Nurse! He's been at the Tufo again!

itboffin

you and tubs that was/is/will never end well

mark my words

veronese68

Another weekend with bits to build a bike and no fettling as much DIY had to be done. Not happy and my back is fooked, although beer seems to be helping.

redvee

Just before bed yesterday I swapped the bottle cages on my Forme from the mismatching white Bonty RL & FWE cage to a matching pair of Bonty RL cyan cages.

daddy0

Gave the hybrid its annual fettle. First cleaned it in the bath, EPO hasn't complained about that yet... New brake blocks, gear and brake cables, a Charge Spoon (nice), cleaned drive train. Tightened the RD which was I found was pretty much hanging off.

Its got new tyres and guards still to go on it, but waiting until I've got new wheels for it before I bother.

Already feels like a new bike. So nice to have my top gear again, oh, and to be able to stop.

itboffin

had another attempt at drying off my bike after yesterday deluge, panniers still damn, lights full of water god only know what's going to happen to all the bearings :evil:

i also swapped and fitted new rear lights at the same time coming up with an idea for a new commuter lighting system :roll:

foolishly i decided to remove a very old carbon seatpost from my steel frame which is the first time since i fitted it 6+ years ago, now i can tell you that wasnt easy it had fused itself and even a whack with a mallet barely budged it, eventually i managed to fit an old saddle for leverage, 30 mins later i'd removed the 450mm fecked post, how dumb was that esp as i only had 4 inches visible, the downtube was actually hot to touch by the end.

i'm very tired now :?

veronese68

itboffin wrote:

foolishly i decided to remove a very old carbon seatpost from my steel frame which is the first time since i fitted it 6+ years ago, now i can tell you that wasnt easy it had fused itself and even a whack with a mallet barely budged it, eventually i managed to fit an old saddle for leverage, 30 mins later i'd removed the 450mm fecked post, how dumb was that esp as i only had 4 inches visible, the downtube was actually hot to touch by the end.

i'm very tired now :?

You need to be a lot more ranty about it before you can get remotely close to G66 level fettling tales.

itboffin

difference is i actually CAN fix stuff

itboffin

Ok if this set up doesnt get me noticed from behind i dont know what will

Kieran_Burns

I am disturbed at the lack of symmetry.

mr_evil

As my mudguards are made of wood, they have their own ideas about what shape they should be that differ from my own. This has been a problem on the front where the standard stainless steel L-bracket is not stiff enough to hold the mudguard in position. Yesterday I decided I had had enough of bending it back into place, so I crafted this new bracket out of carbon fibre. It's not the most aesthetically pleasing thing ever, but it is about a million times stiffer than the original steel one, so nothing is going to move any more.

itboffin

nice but two things, doesnt the lack of sides on that thong of a mud guard make it fairly useless? and jezz fella look at the extra weight you're carrying there by not cutting those bolts to size.

its all in the detail :roll:

itboffin

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I am disturbed at the lack of symmetry.

four lights four different brands each with their strengths and weaknesses

rolf_f

itboffin wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I am disturbed at the lack of symmetry.

four lights four different brands each with their strengths and weaknesses

Indeed. And they all work together to effectively cancel each other out so to a driver behind you you are actually completely invisible!

bigmul

I think I've got rid of the last squeak!
Thought it was the handlebars, turned out was the stem. Bit of grease on the fork steerer, and currently silent.... Also changed tyres on the CX for proper off road ones for some fun tomorrow :-)

mr_evil

itboffin wrote:

nice but two things, doesnt the lack of sides on that thong of a mud guard make it fairly useless?

Having used these in torrential rain a few times now, I can say that they work just as well as conventionally shaped ones. The lack of sides does mean that they lack stiffness though, hence the need for extra secure mounting.

itboffin wrote:

and jezz fella look at the extra weight you're carrying there by not cutting those bolts to size.

its all in the detail :roll:

I know, but the problem with coloured bolts is that cutting them leaves an ugly silver bit on the end. If I have to choose between heavy or ugly, I'll go for heavy... wait, what were we talking about?

Initialised

itboffin wrote:

Ok if this set up doesnt get me noticed from behind i dont know what will

An exposed butt crack?

redvee

Initialised wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Ok if this set up doesnt get me noticed from behind i dont know what will

An exposed butt crack?

No, ITB has bought a new pair of Rapha bibs after the last pair went c-thru

itboffin

I did the right thing and put four pairs of "well used" Castelli in the turbo use only box

talking of weight saving i weighed the bit of seatpost I cut off 37g wow what else can i cut off?

i'm very tempted to do a 10 speed conversion on the winter commuter, something like a 50/11-23 or 48/11-21 if i can find such a thing.

iPete

Built the winter bike in 6 seconds..
https://vine.co/v/Ob15m2vz6AY

asprilla

Sorted the SS out tonight and realised I'd not ridden it for four months.

veronese68

Veronese68 wrote:

Another weekend with bits to build a bike and no fettling as much DIY had to be done. Not happy and my back is fooked, although beer seems to be helping.

Again

Initialised

Today I finally discovered that the bodge I did while re-hosing my hydraulics actually worked.