Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You've Just Done

pitchshifter

davis wrote:

pitchshifter wrote:

Just went to overhaul my 105 brakes as the rear one needed new pads and was sticky. Rear brake was fine, front one (which worked fine) I rounded off the arm's allen key bolt which is now precariously loose and has a fair bit of play in it :evil:

Slightly over-sized torx bit in the hole?

Hmmm possibly. I have a really short allen key that goes in abit further and catches. But because its too short I can't get the leverage. The bolt on the back doesn't budge either...

Suppose I will just have to get new brakes :roll:

gbsahne001

drive line stripped, cleaned with new chain and cassette fitted.

Agent57

New rear tube and tyre on the Brompton. The previous tube had a huge holes in it - http://twitpic.com/9erwqs - I've no idea what caused it. I replaced the tyre as that had ripped on the sidewall - http://twitpic.com/9erx3p - but not in the same place as the puncture (or even near it).

keyser__soze

After a bit of impromptu cross at Cyclopark yesterday, slashing a sidewall on a near-new Ultremo ZX and losing the self-extracting bolt on the crank arm , stripped down and cleaned the R1 as much as possible and did the R3 for good measure following the recent awful weather. Removed several kilos of mud from the R1 and my shoes (was tempted to bung the shoes in the washing machine). Surprised to find the R3 frame is actually black and white and not black and dark grey :oops: Should've taken before and after shots. New tyre and self-extracting bolt on order.

cyclingprop

Agent57 wrote:

New rear tube and tyre on the Brompton. The previous tube had a huge holes in it - http://twitpic.com/9erwqs - I've no idea what caused it. I replaced the tyre as that had ripped on the sidewall - http://twitpic.com/9erx3p - but not in the same place as the puncture (or even near it).

The tube looked like you poked the tyre lever through it, and that tyre is awful... were you seriously riding on something so perished?

Ben6899

Fixed my mate's puncture. Rear wheel, pouring rain and freezing...

willy b

New casette, chain, chainring and brake blocks all replaced! Bike mow rides smooth, stops and changes gear

Initialised

OptimisticBiker wrote:

Initialised wrote:

Gears are getting bad, I feel some fettling coming on.

Is this just a placeholder for the future??

Yes, really should get it done before a chain snaps or the gears lock up on me and send me pavement bound.

EDIT: Done, front cable had gotten a bit slack, been hard to get on to the big ring.

Agent57

cyclingprop wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

New rear tube and tyre on the Brompton. The previous tube had a huge holes in it - http://twitpic.com/9erwqs - I've no idea what caused it. I replaced the tyre as that had ripped on the sidewall - http://twitpic.com/9erx3p - but not in the same place as the puncture (or even near it).

The tube looked like you poked the tyre lever through it, and that tyre is awful... were you seriously riding on something so perished?

Nah, the tyre lever didn't go through it. The hole was on the opposite side to the one I levered off. I did hear a "crack!" as I was on the train; I think it burst for some reason.

I've no idea why the sidewall was so worn - the tyre itself (a Schwalbe Marathon) is less than 5 months old, has loads of tread left, and is only worn in once place. The other sidewall is fine, as is the rest of that side. It must have happened very recently, because I changed a rear puncture about 2 weeks ago over Easter, and checked the tyre then.

cyclingprop

Agent57 wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

New rear tube and tyre on the Brompton. The previous tube had a huge holes in it - http://twitpic.com/9erwqs - I've no idea what caused it. I replaced the tyre as that had ripped on the sidewall - http://twitpic.com/9erx3p - but not in the same place as the puncture (or even near it).

The tube looked like you poked the tyre lever through it, and that tyre is awful... were you seriously riding on something so perished?

Nah, the tyre lever didn't go through it. The hole was on the opposite side to the one I levered off. I did hear a "crack!" as I was on the train; I think it burst for some reason.

I've no idea why the sidewall was so worn - the tyre itself (a Schwalbe Marathon) is less than 5 months old, has loads of tread left, and is only worn in once place. The other sidewall is fine, as is the rest of that side. It must have happened very recently, because I changed a rear puncture about 2 weeks ago over Easter, and checked the tyre then.

Maybe its been rubbing or some sort of solvent attacked the rubber?

bobbygloss

I washed my MTB and found this split next to the bolt in the base of the fork:

It gets wider as you tighten the bolt. The fork is a Suntour XCR-RL, about 15 months old. Good excuse to upgrade, I think.

mudcow007

Bobbygloss wrote:

I washed my MTB and found this split next to the bolt in the base of the fork:

It gets wider as you tighten the bolt. The fork is a Suntour XCR-RL, about 15 months old. Good excuse to upgrade, I think.

feckin hell!

thats a good ole crack

Tricycleboy

Picked up the old but beautiful peugeot elan gt that i sold my mate a couple of years ago with the intention of doing an SS/ wet weather/ pub bike build.

Cruddy bits of bike, drivetrain, crap levers, crap wheels all removed.

Attempted to service habs on the second hand SS wheels i picked up- went well for a first attempt. having a bit of trouble tightening the locknut while holding the cone as the rubber seal is in the way (any advice?). Will muddle through though.

Tonights plans are to true & re-dish the rear wheel, pop new levers on and connect to brakes, and pop new chain on and see if i can get the tension set up ok.

New chrome forks in the post for a bit of bling- thats the weekend sorted!

mattcroad

Saddle replaced over lunch at work, hopefully the rails on this one won't crumple from the power of my buns.

itboffin

Roadside chain split and rejoin on the way home after an unplanned break, lucky for me it broke one full link from the master splitter thingy-me-bob

Not so cool loosing your chain on a 10%+ climb as getting going again was a tad knee ouchy.

jonginge

@itb ouch

This evening I sprang into action to rectify an urgent issue: just replaced the ratchet on my mavic shoes. The left one broke when a french chap crashed in to the back of me... last year at the marmotte. :oops:

rjsterry

cyclingprop wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

New rear tube and tyre on the Brompton. The previous tube had a huge holes in it - http://twitpic.com/9erwqs - I've no idea what caused it. I replaced the tyre as that had ripped on the sidewall - http://twitpic.com/9erx3p - but not in the same place as the puncture (or even near it).

The tube looked like you poked the tyre lever through it, and that tyre is awful... were you seriously riding on something so perished?

Nah, the tyre lever didn't go through it. The hole was on the opposite side to the one I levered off. I did hear a "crack!" as I was on the train; I think it burst for some reason.

I've no idea why the sidewall was so worn - the tyre itself (a Schwalbe Marathon) is less than 5 months old, has loads of tread left, and is only worn in once place. The other sidewall is fine, as is the rest of that side. It must have happened very recently, because I changed a rear puncture about 2 weeks ago over Easter, and checked the tyre then.

Maybe its been rubbing or some sort of solvent attacked the rubber?

Isn't the perished bit just the reflective strip the M+ tyres have? Could be a kerb scuff that has left a rough bit on the edge of the rim, which then rubbed through the side wall, but who knows.

itboffin

JonGinge wrote:

@itb ouch

This evening I sprang into action to rectify an urgent issue: just replaced the ratchet on my mavic shoes. The left one broke when a french chap crashed in to the back of me... last year at the marmotte. :oops:

Nah it was all fine in the end and only added a few mins to the journey which is lucky as all hell has broken loose out there again.

Do they make hunter wellies with SPDs ?

@JG did he surrender?

iPete

Chain was slipping so new chain and cassette added last night. Still slipping this morning and realise the big ring is like a ninja star. Fitted an old sora one.. what d'ya think? :oops:

ketsbaia

New cassette, rear mech and chain fitted to commuter. Needs some more work, though. Chain needs a few links taking out of it for a start, then I need to properly fit the cable and index/adjust the gears.

Gonna be a long night tomorrow.

DrLex

Oil change on the Alfine 11 hub of the Pompetamine; used a Rohloff hub kit instead of the over-priced Shimano one, but stayed with the correct Shimano oil (just as over-priced).

davis

DrLex wrote:

Oil change on the Alfine 11 hub of the Pompetamine; used a Rohloff hub kit instead of the over-priced Shimano one, but stayed with the correct Shimano oil (just as over-priced).

I'd be interested to hear your results. What sort of state was the shifting in before/after? how easy was the oil change, and how long did it take? At what mileage did you change the oil? Questions, questions.

DrLex

davis wrote:

DrLex wrote:

Oil change on the Alfine 11 hub of the Pompetamine; used a Rohloff hub kit instead of the over-priced Shimano one, but stayed with the correct Shimano oil (just as over-priced).

I'd be interested to hear your results. What sort of state was the shifting in before/after? how easy was the oil change, and how long did it take? At what mileage did you change the oil? Questions, questions.

Oil change was easy; just get a loose 3mm Allen key, as a multitool is unlikely to fit in to undo the drain plug, and set aside an hour. I used the Rohloff cleaning oil, rather than half of the 50ml Shimano bottle. Worryingly, the hub only had less than 10ml of old oil; the bike was claimed to be March 2011 and about 6-700 miles when I bought it in February. I'd added around 300, so reckoned that a change was due; just this week, gear 10 was only engaging 50% of the time when changing up. Forecast this week means that I'll be testing for any effect this week & report back later.

Cost: Rohloff kit (oils & syringe) £17; Shimano oil £12. Since I used the Rohloff cleaning oil, I have only used half the Shimano oil. I'll get some generic cleaning oil from work, so £29 covers two changes. Not too bad.

davis

So you're changing the oil after only around 1000 miles? Sounds awfully often to me. I'll have to have a think about doing mine.

rubertoe

Clean and Lube of chain, Clean frame and fork's, re-grease BB, New pads and rear brake adjustment.

need to get me a new rear caliper and some cartridges

DrLex

davis wrote:

So you're changing the oil after only around 1000 miles? Sounds awfully often to me. I'll have to have a think about doing mine.

I hadn't found an official service interval, but have seen "after initial 1000km & then every 5000km" and the same, but with an initial 2000km. Given its second hand status, and the fact that I only extracted 1/3rd of the volume of oil to that which I put in, I've no regrets on doing such "early". The issue with gear 10 may require a fettle with the cable & adjustment markers, which looks a little more arcane.

On the continuing fettle, winter tyres off the pub bike and cheapo commuter ones put on, ready for the start of Monday night skittles. Even gave the (decade-old) chain a clean & oil!

davis

@DrLex: My, my. You're completely right and I've just realised I've been running my Alfine 11 on old oil for far too long. I shall change it ASAP! I'm going to order these two things from SJS -- would you mind confirming that it's everything I need please?

Rohloff Full Oil Change Kit - 8410
Shimano SG-S700 Oil - 50 ml - 130 9848-1

Edit:

DrLex wrote:

The issue with gear 10 may require a fettle with the cable & adjustment markers, which looks a little more arcane.

The cable adjustment thing is really pretty easy. I've done it a couple of times as I thought that might have been the cause of my sticky shifting. D'oh.

DrLex

davis wrote:

[...] I'm going to order these two things from SJS -- would you mind confirming that it's everything I need please?

Rohloff Full Oil Change Kit - 8410
Shimano SG-S700 Oil - 50 ml - 130 9848-1

[...]

Those are the two; if you were on a tight budget and take a "devil-may-care" insouciance to procedure, you could use the Rohloff oil and thus skip the SG-700. However, the Rohloff oil does look a little thinner to my unprofessional eye.

If you want a laugh, look up the price of the TL-S703 Shimano kit - a container, syringe, tube, bleed nipple and replacement 'o' ring. It's about twice what the Rohloff kit is, and that has all the oils! The only "drawback" is that you have to re-use the 'o' ring, but see above for carefree attitude...

Initialised

New chain. Cranks and cassette ordered as it had worn the big ring and there seems to be play on the rings.

optimisticbiker

Fettling fail

Wanted to strip the new freewheel off the new hub Alex-wheels sent me so I could refit it to the wheel in place of the damaged freewheel.

Seems I need a 12mm allen key and a 7/16" hex bit. Wasn't obvious so took the freewheel down to Halfords to find tools to fit. Predictably they hadn't got anything in the tools section. Went up to the bikehut and they confirmed by trial and error a 12mm and 'something like an 11mm' was needed. A quick attempt to undo with the 11mm proved fruitless, needs more force and being aware from Alex's website that its probably a 7/16" didn't want to mash the corners by putting too much pressure on with an 11mm. Local motor factor shops proved hopeless too.

Been on ebay and ordered a 12mm and a 7/16 allen keys but really would prefer a proper socket drive insert for the 7/16 side.

Beginning to think that letting the LBS at it might have been a better idea...