Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You've Just Done

Underscore

biondino wrote:

It turns out however that the leakage rate of CO2 is huge, and the reason is that it is actually soluble in butyl rubber

So, basically, your tyres have gone fizzy.

lost_in_thought

Underscore wrote:

biondino wrote:

It turns out however that the leakage rate of CO2 is huge, and the reason is that it is actually soluble in butyl rubber

So, basically, your tyres have gone fizzy.

I did actually, genuinely, laugh out loud at that. A very undignified snort followed by some giggling.

DevUK

Does cleaning your bike count? Given the MTB and hybrid a good cleaning (long over due). Problem is I need to lube my gear cables now. I found that out on the way to work this morning.

Gave the brakes on the Hybrid a tune up too

Kieran_Burns

Jamey wrote:

Mmm... Adjusting girls to be horizontal...

Anyway, I was meant to be fettling my mate's rear ...... lunchtime ......... we're doing it tomorrow now. I'm not holding .......as I think his ....is a bit bent .....

NEVER EVER EVER speed read some posts!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

redvee

Whipped a mech hanger off a scrapped Speccy Sirrus along with the seat collar, not fettling of my bike but did envolve the use of tools

itboffin

I ate a 1kg steak but seeing as i have no idea what a kg is I guess that's not relevant, OT me never

stuaff

Washed the Jetstream, and degreased & relubed both that and the Viner (which may have the odd bit of dirt on it, who cares?...shouldn't have got a white bike, lol).

Is it me or do some chains and cassettes never seem to really come clean?

MonkeyMonster

My chain *needs* a clean but last time I used the bath, my flat mate didn't speak to me for a week...

Hang on

lost_in_thought

I'm not going to be taking the fixie to Wales! Are you mad?

In other news, my pannier rack fell off on the way to rowing last night, so I fixed it with the shoulder strap from my pannier. Yep, I am queen of cr@ppy makeshift repairs. The sad thing is that it'll be like that for weeks...

Roastie

Just finished fixing a pile of tubes that have been gathering dust and causing maritial friction.

King Donut

Woke up 5.30 this morning, cleaned drivetrain, brakes and pedals, fitted new chain.

Obviously knocked front derailer in process as said chain snapped 4 miles in to commute after some nasty unexpected derailer/chainring contact. Adjusted derailer. Fixed chain (without powerlink). Now to LBS at lunchtime...

redvee

lost_in_thought wrote:

In other news, my pannier rack fell off on the way to rowing last night

You rode your bike to a pre-arranged argument last night :? Must be an Essex based girl thing.

Not on my own bike but I had to turn a tyre around on a colleagues MTB as the direction arrows pointed the other way. Took longer to get the wheel out of the frame than it did to turn the tyre around as I didn't want to get my hands oily

Kieran_Burns

redvee wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

In other news, my pannier rack fell off on the way to rowing last night

You rode your bike to a pre-arranged argument last night :? Must be an Essex based girl thing.

Not on my own bike but I had to turn a tyre around on a colleagues MTB as the direction arrows pointed the other way. Took longer to get the wheel out of the frame than it did to turn the tyre around as I didn't want to get my hands oily

Why didn't you just turn the whole wheel around????? :?

shoulder_of_orion

I've washed my bottles inside and out. Hell yeah!

pastryboy

Saddle moved back - it's now stopped creaking and I've not got back ache.
Put the original clipless pedals back on CX after swapping them for flats

This weekend:

Fit new rear wheel to MTB and put on the new chain
Fit cross top levers to CX
Swap current CX pedals to MTB and put new pedals on CX
Usual weekly cleaning and oiling

I thought cycling was suppoed to save me money

il_principe

pastryboy wrote:

I thought cycling was suppoed to save me money

What a foolish notion!

pastryboy

Only been commuting 3 1/2 months already spent more than the cost of an annual travelcard :oops:

Aidy

Relaced a wheel onto a new rim, and did truing stage 1 (tm).

Truing stage 2 (tm) will probably wait until tomorrow.

Aidy

pastryboy wrote:

Only been commuting 3 1/2 months already spent more than the cost of an annual travelcard :oops:

Move further away!

redvee

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Why didn't you just turn the whole wheel around????? :?

Rear wheel with disc :!:

Kieran_Burns

redvee wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Why didn't you just turn the whole wheel around????? :?

Rear wheel with disc :!:

don't you get logical with me 8)

prawny

I realised on my way home that my brake pads had worn so that the levers hit the bars before full power :shock:

Fettled and sorted last night with a squirt of chain lube again this mornin. Finish line dry lube is ghey.

Wallace1492

Toe'd in my Tricross brake pads to try and ease juddering - never even heard of the expresion till yesterday!! Pi**ing down today, so took train (no mudguards yet) so will only find out if it works this evening. Also changed pump attachment to bottle cage to correct way round..... after foot kept clipping it....

lloyd_bower

I've fitted the bar ends on my commuter (an old steek rigid Kona Cinder Cone) inboard of the brake and gear levers, looks strange but feels more comfortable.

Specialized Needs

prawny wrote:

I realised on my way home that my brake pads had worn so that the levers hit the bars before full power :shock:

Fettled and sorted last night with a squirt of chain lube again this mornin. Finish line dry lube is ghey.

Erm, Prawny, don't know how to break this to you, but I'm not sure a squirt of chain lube is the best solution for worn brakepads :shock:

prawny

duncedunce wrote:

prawny wrote:

I realised on my way home that my brake pads had worn so that the levers hit the bars before full power :shock:

Fettled and sorted last night with a squirt of chain lube again this mornin. Finish line dry lube is ghey.

Erm, Prawny, don't know how to break this to you, but I'm not sure a squirt of chain lube is the best solution for worn brakepads :shock:

Ahh crap! That explains why I was so fast in today though

Kieran_Burns

prawny wrote:

duncedunce wrote:

prawny wrote:

I realised on my way home that my brake pads had worn so that the levers hit the bars before full power :shock:

Fettled and sorted last night with a squirt of chain lube again this mornin. Finish line dry lube is ghey.

Erm, Prawny, don't know how to break this to you, but I'm not sure a squirt of chain lube is the best solution for worn brakepads :shock:

Ahh crap! That explains why I was so fast in today though

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0scar

I just cleaned my girlfriends bike on the weekend (trying to encourage her to use it more) and found two new gears! Halfords had apparently decided she didn't need them so left them out when they indexed it.

Bloody Halfords.

Jamey

My last fettling was unintended... A P*ncture on the way to work this morning.

But explain this to me...

• Cycling to work, brakes are completely silent
• Get puncture
• Pull over
• Release brakes
• Remove wheel
• Fix puncture
• Replace wheel
• Hook brakes back up
• Continue riding to work
• Brakes now squealing (well, more like groaning) incredibly loudly.
• After about five miles brakes stop groaning again of their own accord.

Anyone got any ideas what happened? The fact that it began after replacing the wheel and then disappeared of its own accord would tend to suggest it was something that wore off with use, as you'd expect from something on the braking surface but I'm pretty sure I didn't contaminate the rim with any muck while I was changing the tube.

prawny

Jamey wrote:

My last fettling was unintended... A P*ncture on the way to work this morning.

But explain this to me...

• Cycling to work, brakes are completely silent
• Get puncture
• Pull over
• Release brakes
• Remove wheel
• Fix puncture
• Replace wheel
• Hook brakes back up
• Continue riding to work
• Brakes now squealing (well, more like groaning) incredibly loudly.
• After about five miles brakes stop groaning again of their own accord.

Anyone got any ideas what happened? The fact that it began after replacing the wheel and then disappeared of its own accord would tend to suggest it was something that wore off with use, as you'd expect from something on the braking surface but I'm pretty sure I didn't contaminate the rim with any muck while I was changing the tube.

Bogeys? Transfer from finger to rim when you took the wheel out? Check your levers too. Bogeys mke a racket, you're lucky it wasn't warmer, snot is an excellet lubricator.