Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You've Just Done
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Sorry, what I meant was I backed all the screws off, released the cable and started from scratch, including screwing the limit screws back in. I've set up mechs dozens of times, could (I thought, anyway!) do it with my eyes closed, but this is being a right pig.
I set it up as per Park Tool's instructions. Mech cage straight when compared to the chain in big chainring/small cog combo. I'll try again with a bit more patience tonight and will update.0 -
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Already done, through gritted teeth, with much swearingUndercoverElephant wrote:Also check for worn/broken teeth on the chainring.
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I've had a genius idea, i think?
well what with work & family life i've not had time to do much more than check tyre pressure in the mornings and frankly after all this rain my commuters looking nasty, so how about this idea ...
Cover the bike in fenwick foaming degreaser 5 mins before heading out in the morning, leave it on and hit to inevitable wall of wind and rain for the whole commute, voila no hassle clean bike or something :roll:Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
I can confirm that cleaning your drive train in the dark delivers less than perfect results.
For some reason one of the hills on my commute yesterday was covered in drying out worms thousands of the buggers they are now adorning my bike like some kind of grim underworld camouflage.Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
Quick stop on the way to work this morning to remove some vegetation that had lodged it self between the from wheel and the guard!
New chain to arrive today so that will go on this weekend and also be replacing the left cleat only on my shoes."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills0 -
Lots of work to the Dolan last night:
Changed both tyres
Fitted crud roadrace mk2
Added reflective tape to rear guard
Fitted Ortlieb large saddle bag
Tweaked gear cables
Fitted 3 lights
Fitted Lezyne road pump and 2 bottle cages
And tied a small bag under the handlebars
All in preparation for the Severn Across Audax tomorrow. 400k. Gulp.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Removed cartridge bearings from front and rear hubs and re-greased. Replaced two worn bearings. All back in and super smooth. Then wonder what whirring sound is, and the slight vibration feeling. Worry about it all the way to work, thinking bearings might be gone, then find mudguard had popped a secu clip and was rubbing the tyre. Phew.0
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Replaced the innertube on the rear of the CX as an inch-and-a-half-eight screw going right through it at a fair chat rendered the tube irreperable.
Put a new 24mm Twin Rail Courier Berlin tyre on the back of the fixeh too.
It was a rubbery evening.....FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
CAADX 105 beastie for bumpy bits
Litespeed L3 for Strava bits
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.0 -
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Stripped down the S1, cleaned, greased and fitted a new brass seatpost shim ready to put on eBay.
Next up is new rim tape and tyres on the commuter wheels and a thorough lubing of the CR1 in preparation for getting dropped by CJ and JG tomorrow.Mud - Genesis Vapour CCX
Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
Sun - Cervelo R3
Winter / Commute - Dolan ADX0 -
Changed BB on my ribble commuter, shifts so much better without all that play.
Fitted SRAM groupset and matching red tyres to the steel bike, much more fiddly than campag or shimaNO but looks good if a tad noisy.
Changed brakes & pads on the SS
Tidied the garage and drank a few cold beers in the sunshine 8)Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
Fixed the flush on our toilet. It's been like an old fella pissing for a while now and this morning, a particularly stubborn Richard forced my hand into rectifying the situation...Ben
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Doing the Thames Bridges ride tomorrow with my son and a few friends. Offered to give the other bikes the once over. My son's mates bike had no front brake and a fair buckle in the wheel. I didn't want to get into truing the wheel but I adjusted the brakes. Realised there was a bulge in the tyre where the pad was rubbing and had nearly worn through. Replaced the tyre with one I had in the garage. It was then that I realised not only was the tyre bulging but, where the wheel buckle was causing the brakes to run it had worn the rim down to half the width of the rest of it.
I showed this to the boys Dad and told him I didn't have a spare wheel he could use. He said it would be fine and he didn't want me to condemn the bike as he had pretty much outgrown it.
I hope the front wheel doesn't blow tomorrow. :roll:0 -
Would these wheels take a pair of CX tyres? Already have them (the wheels that is)
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=29089“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
DRS enabled :twisted:
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Following my previous fettling failure a 7/16" allen key duly arrived in the post this morning (why they didn't send it with the 12mm I ordered at the same time from them on eBay, using the new eBay 'shopping basket', and which arrived 2 days ago I don't know :sad: ).
Anyway, now having the two tools needed I set about swapping the freewheel off the spare hub Alex-Wheels sent me over to the bike. First I stripped it all down and removed all the ball bearings to stop them getting lost. Turned out that getting the freewheel off the hub was a bugger though. Eventually I had to lock the 12mm allen key in the big bench vice and turn the 7/16" one with a 3 foot length of scaffold pole I had lying around in the garage - at first it wouldn't shift so it was with some trepidation I hauled on the pole and it came free with a bang, sending me and few other things flying across the garage! Once seperated it was a doddle to do the same with the old one on the wheel (not nearly as tight) and fit the new freewheel back to the wheel hub. A few dollops of grease and a bit of to and fro-ing with the cone spanners to get the axle play 'just so' (see here for the technique) and I now have a wheel that spins for ages and is completely silent
instead of the nasty rumbling noises I had before... will be awesome up hills now wishful thinking I know
In other news... fixed the front brakes on the commuter... only one arm was moving the other was jammed. managed to free it up but its still a bit sticky and looks slightly twisted. Wondering if its sustained some damaged in the famous Russian Woman incidentInvacare Spectra Plus electric wheelchair, max speed 4mph
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My daughters friend and her dad arrived at the house at ten this morning for a group canal path ride down to Newport in the sun.
The dad had his new bike.
I promise that I didn't giggle much as I rotated the forks by 180 degrees for him.FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
CAADX 105 beastie for bumpy bits
Litespeed L3 for Strava bits
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.0 -
SimonAH wrote:My daughters friend and her dad arrived at the house at ten this morning for a group canal path ride down to Newport in the sun.
The dad had his new BSO.
I promise that I didn't giggle much as I rotated the forks by 180 degrees for him.
FTFY Invacare Spectra Plus electric wheelchair, max speed 4mph0 -
New chain on, went for a spin to make sure all was well, the gears all over the shop. Many adjustments on the move and still no joy.
I get home much head scratching later and a copy of tea for stress and i look at it again. :shock:
I only threaded the the chain through the derailleur wrong! :roll:
All sorted now and the new brake pads mean that hopefully the bike will now stop in tomorrows inevitable wet!"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills0 -
Turns out my chain was worn. If I held the brake and put a load of force through the pedals I could just about get the 1% side of the chain checker to drop in, but even slack the .75% side had no problem.
New chain (I had one sitting around waiting to convert my MTBb to 1x10) fitting, mech tweaked a little more and aquick spin round the block suggested it was all okay. Will know for sure after the commute tomorrow morning.0 -
Took the posh bike to pieces to put in the bike box yesterday. Stupid Look pedals. Got the non drive-side one off OK, but have ended up seriously scratching the lacquer on the downtube trying to get the drive-side pedal off.
Don't think it's serious enough to compromise the integrity of the frame, but am utterly gutted. SuperSix Hi-Mod frame, in case you were wondering. 0 -
New bearings fitted. I noticed that there is a couple of mill gap between the bottom of the head tube and the steerer which is letting the rain in. Going to see if I can buy/make a seal.Twostage wrote:After the week of downpours which caused the rear brake callipers to seize I've done them and the steerer bearings. The steerer tube was actually dripping wet. Managed to only loose two bearings - one from the top and one from the bottom. Found the one from the top (recognised it because it was still silver, bottom ones are brown) after re-assembly.
New bearings ordered.0 -
The indexing on the RD is still not great.
When in the smallest three cogs the chain is jumping all over the place and it will not sit on the 2nd gear.
Got the feeling that I am going to have to replace the cassette of I cant get it settle.
Any ideas on how to solve this? or is it a case of just adjusting Barrel and Shifter to get the cable tensioning right?"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills0 -
I gave the 'hack' its annual service over the weekend. I cleaned and lubed the chain on bank holiday Monday only to be rewarded by an "uncontrolled sideways dismount" on Friday when the chain snapped on a local hill.
So this weekend I fitted the parts I'd been collecting for the last few weeks namely: replacement bottom bracket, new chain and cassette, replacement brake blocks, new rear tyre and fresh 'unpatched' tube, replaced the last 20cm of cable casing over the cable to the rear derailleur and made general adjustments to, and greasing of, all remaining moving parts. I now need to replace the middle chainwheel on the chainring and the headset bearings (which are now on order).
Unusually for me the injuries were kept to a minimum with only one cut on my right hand where the allen key slipped off the font brakes and a couple of impact bruises when the chain whip snapped under load as I'd tightend the locking ring too far on the old cassette.
So. This morning's commute was without the "squeak and click" from the bottom bracket that's accompanied by ride into the office since late autumn but it was a bit harder as the front brakes were binding most of the way in.
Ooops!
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Fitted my new saddle.......and that's it!0
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Built a new pair of wheels for the commuter over the weekend. There'd been some unhealthy noises coming from the old rear hub, and the rims were starting to look a bit dodgy.
Took the old rear off and removed the skewer to get the cassette removal tool on, and the entire cassette/freewheel assembly fell off, still attached to the left-hand half of the axle :shock:
I must have ridden several hundred miles with a two-part axle. At least I know what was making the noise...Pannier, 120rpm.0 -
Here's a top fettling injury avoidance tip, wear a pair of quite thick old full finger cycling gloves when doing tasks like BB or pedal removals, slipped tools and sharp chainring cuts will be a thing of the past.Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
I draw blood when I do ANY kind of DIY. :?beverick wrote:Unusually for me the injuries were kept to a minimum with only one cut on my right hand where the allen key slipped off the font brakes and a couple of impact bruises when the chain whip snapped under load as I'd tightend the locking ring too far on the old cassette.
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