Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You've Just Done

davis

Sharkyssurfers wrote:

davis wrote:

Sharkyssurfers wrote:

wash and blow dried the bike at the weekend, also fitted the crud racers only took me an hour!, but it looks good now, just noticed there is a lot of play in the headset i.e. if I put the front brake on the bars and forks can still move backwards and forwards by quite a bit, hopefully it will last until I can afford new bearings etc..

You have tried simply tightening the headset, right?

err you know when I said tighter that tight thing, errrrrmmm, just had a fettle, it helps if you don't tighten the stem first :oops: retighten headset and then stem and guess what no play

I was going to ask if that's what you'd done

Sharkyssurfers

davis wrote:

Sharkyssurfers wrote:

davis wrote:

Sharkyssurfers wrote:

wash and blow dried the bike at the weekend, also fitted the crud racers only took me an hour!, but it looks good now, just noticed there is a lot of play in the headset i.e. if I put the front brake on the bars and forks can still move backwards and forwards by quite a bit, hopefully it will last until I can afford new bearings etc..

You have tried simply tightening the headset, right?

err you know when I said tighter that tight thing, errrrrmmm, just had a fettle, it helps if you don't tighten the stem first :oops: retighten headset and then stem and guess what no play

I was going to ask if that's what you'd done

whats even more worrying is that I have probably ridden 1500 to 2000 miles before noticing it :shock:

Mikey41

Had a good check over the new Giant. LBS have done a great job setting it up, so I have checked my positioning. Brought the saddle forward a bit to get lined up over the cranks better, that has also seemed to make the reach more comfy.

I'll find out when I have a good long ride on it on friday, weather permitting

MisterMuncher

Replaced rear bearings and freehub body.

On a not unrelated note, Formula hubs can grill my dung.

iPete

Fitted Crud MK2 to my track bike. Going to cry if I get a rear puncture... bring on a week of rain :evil:



Stripped the road bike down for retirement, 21,307 miles of service

asprilla

Put a new freehub on the Hopes on the commuter. The previous was so chewed that I yanked it off when trying to change the cassette. Decided to fork out the extra and put a steel one on.

Incidentally, I've been using Big Wipes Industrial+ wipes to clean the bike and my greasy hands for a while now and I can also recommend Big Wipes Industrial+ Scrub; leaves your hands lovely and soft.

Initialised

Rearranged my mud guards and decided they need stays, ordered some and I lost my cadence magnet so got one of them too. Also, noticed my brakes were uneven so tweaked the spring tension to even them out and tightened the cables up. Seems to be wearing the pads much faster this year, I guess that'll happen with a 600ft oft-road climb followed by a 40mph+ descent.

Yesterday I helped assemble an Argos Challenge Emulator for a neighbour and took him for a 10mile ride to make sure it was okay. It didn't break, apt name for a BSO. I think he'll only be doing a 4 mile commute on a week on week off basis when the weather is OK so it will probably last a couple of years.

rjsterry

Really should know when to call it a night. Successfully changed my headset on the kitchen floor last night (dark and chucking it down outside), then thought I might swap out the perished and rusting gear cable outers with some I salvaged. FD all fine, RD, well, the cable was slightly frayed at the end, and not enough spare to trim it off. Of course it came out fine, but would it go back through the little section of outer by the derailleur? Not with out stripping one strand back 12" up the cable, rendering it useless. Unthreaded the whole thing (gone 10.30pm by now) and remembered I had a spare cable.

Spare cable sold to me by Evans as a "Universal" (yeah right) cable has the wrong end to fit in the STI :evil: A bit of hacksawing and filing later and I have something that will at least fit in to the STI, but won't allow it to operate properly. So, this morning I rode in on 42x15 - only forgot not to change gear once, but that still necessitated a 10 minute pit stop to release the jammed lever.:evil:

UndercoverElephant

Made the mistake of adjusting my mudguards at the weekend when I re-attached the dynamo light and wheel for the winter. Horrible rattle all week, but can't be arsed to fix it until the weekend.

Also broke a spoke this morning. Trudged the next couple of miles to a bike shop to get a replacement and fitted it on the pavement outside - some days you're glad you have a Spokey as a keyring.

desweller

Bonded a cable to the down tube and mudguard to supply the new dynamo rear light. All using sealed connectors so I can disconnect it without mucking about with cable ties. Got to wait for the silicone to set now...

woodnut

New bottom bracket on the MTB. The old one was as dry as a very dry thing, no surprise it was so creaky. That's the second time I've had to renew the BB on that bike, shows it's getting on a bit. Still at £15 and about 15 minutes work it's no real hardship I guess.

mtb-idle

Something that is perhaps overlooked when we are thinking about protecting our bikes but I spent a useful hour yesterday upgrading the security on my up-and-over garage door by fitting a set of Enfield Garage Door bolts.

rolf_f

At my parents and fettling my Raleigh Record Ace. Finally got round to sorting out the new brakes - Suntour Superbe (to almost match the Suntour Cyclone groupset) to replace the less than brilliant Weinmann 605s it came with.

Even managed to reuse the original brass cable end ferrules (now that's recycling!). Tweaked the front limit screws and went for a ride. And as always on that bike, the fact that it is hard work on climbs is offset by the revelation that is riding a bike with top quality downtube shifters and mechs. Truly a lovely experience. I just wish the rear mech could take a wider range of gears (though to be fair I've not tried to find out what it can do).

Anyway, thoroughly satisfying and the new brakes work much better than the old and look much better.

Mikey41

Did an overhaul of a 25+ yr old Raleigh "MTB" (since they clearly used a road frame and bolted knobbly tyres and flat bars to it, but hey!) Dad has had this in his garage for ages now and it hasn't done many miles despite it's age.

Rear wheel bearings were loose and we also found the rear axle was bent slightly. Stripped the freewheel down and re-greased it, cleaned 25 years of muck off it and the chain, cleaned up the chainset and deraileurs, re-lubed and back on the bike. The rear wheel now no longer wobbles when you ride it

Gears needed adjustment, now all working properly again and finally re-adjusted the brakes so they actually work now.

Here's to another 25 years

Wrath Rob

The Comtat was making some dodgy sounds from the crankset area so last night I checked the chain ring bolts (2 slightly loose which was probably the noise) and then removed the crank, cleaned and re-greased and re-assembled then removed, cleaned and re-fitted the peddles. Gave the bike a quick baby wipe down and all is good to go. No creaks this morning, hurrah

itboffin

Swapped the handlebars and stem from flat to drops on the BSO, also removed all the gears and refitted the chain and one of the brakes so far, would have been much easier with a cable cutter.

STI with v-brakes what could possibly go wrong :roll:

daddy0

For the past few evenings I've done the following to my 2006 Scott Sportster P4:

Stripped rear derailleur, cleaned, greased and reinstalled
Installed new cassette - I now have a shiney one!
Installed new chain
Tuned derailleur
Cut bars down by 4-5cm and washed grips
Installed new pedals - old ones had loads of play, just went for light open pedals
Adjusted saddle and got rid of squeak
Swapped old sus forks for rigid alu Kinesis ones - had to cut down steerer, which I overdid by a few mm, almost destroyed crown race getting it off old forks, and well and truly mangled compression bolt fitting. It was almost a complete disaster, but I rescued it by hitting it with a hammer!



I also recently got Cont Gatorskins and new tubes, which I pump up to 120psi.

I bought the bike second hand for £150 earlier this year, all in all I've spent an additional £210+ - I know I know, I should have bought a new bike from the off. However its been a good learning experience. After riding BMX's exclusively for the last 15 years pretty much everything on this bike is new to me!

Bike feels like a new bike now though. I managed to get 45mph downhill on it when it was pretty much falling to pieces, looking forward to my commute tomorrow now - should be good for 50mph I reckon :twisted:

Paul E

My race blades arrived at work so I will fit them before heading off so I can get them home as I can't get them in my rucksack.

desweller

Paul E wrote:

My race blades arrived at work so I will fit them before heading off so I can get them home as I can't get them in my rucksack.

This isn't 'Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You're About To Do' you know. Keep it 'on topic'.

Paul E

DesWeller wrote:

Paul E wrote:

My race blades arrived at work so I will fit them before heading off so I can get them home as I can't get them in my rucksack.

This isn't 'Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You're About To Do' you know. Keep it 'on topic'.

Bah I won't have time to post about it just after I do it, I don't think I will have any problems (famous last words)

rubertoe

Paul E wrote:

DesWeller wrote:

Paul E wrote:

My race blades arrived at work so I will fit them before heading off so I can get them home as I can't get them in my rucksack.

This isn't 'Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You're About To Do' you know. Keep it 'on topic'.

Bah I won't have time to post about it just after I do it, I don't think I will have any problems (famous last words)

Stopped twice on the way home this evening to re-adjust the front race blade XL on the Focus; which only went on last night - i fear that the front will continuously be being fettled as every time I track stand I just seem to catch it with my toe.

itboffin

well there's your answer right there stop with the tracks stands this is BR not LFGSS :twisted:

Now then talking of FGSS whilst not track standing I discovered I have a slack chain, this has now been fixed.

Paul E

rubertoe wrote:

Paul E wrote:

DesWeller wrote:

Paul E wrote:

My race blades arrived at work so I will fit them before heading off so I can get them home as I can't get them in my rucksack.

This isn't 'Thread To Tell Everyone What Fettling You're About To Do' you know. Keep it 'on topic'.

Bah I won't have time to post about it just after I do it, I don't think I will have any problems (famous last words)

Stopped twice on the way home this evening to re-adjust the front race blade XL on the Focus; which only went on last night - i fear that the front will continuously be being fettled as every time I track stand I just seem to catch it with my toe.

Mine are xl's too, I can't track stand so no guard foot contact, I haven't put them fixing screws in yet as need to tweak them in bit but they stayed pretty straight.

willy b

After an exploding inner tube yesterday on the ride home I fitted a new front winter tyre and inner tube, plus 2 extra lights to the commuter, ow yeah and a frame pump 8)

itboffin

Grrrr I'm having a nightmare with my CX bike, front much seems to rub in the big ring, change angle then height adjusted high low screws then I realised that when turning the cranks slowly there's a huge amount of variance in the gap between chain and much cage at one spot.

Bent chain rings nope
Bottom bracket play nope
Wonky crank arms nope

So wtf is up?

UndercoverElephant

I'd have bet on the bent chain wheel, but if you're sure, the only other thing would be a bent axle to crank joint, not sure how you'd have done that.

itboffin

Which axle? Not the bb its a crank Bros Ti cost more than the frame :roll:

Paul E

Must be the crank or the chain rings as they are the only things that move in relation the the FD

UndercoverElephant

itboffin wrote:

Which axle? Not the bb its a crank Bros Ti cost more than the frame :roll:

Ah, square taper? Could it be then, that the mechanical clutz who installed it didn't quite install the crank correctly?

itboffin

Thanks for the vote of confidence in my fettling skills UE but no not square taper Isis I'm uploading a video now to YouTube tiz weird for sure.