What have you fettled today?

[jogler]

The Langster has had a lot of attention today

attempted to mend yesterday's p*nct*r* 3 times & then the tube split at the valve stem.

Fitted new tube but this punctured due to something inside the tye which I hadn't spotted.Applied patch but the seam split when re-inflated.

Fitted second  new tube.It's remained inflated for 30 mins now so I think.......

Removed bottle cage from downtube & fitted to seat tube.

Fitted pump cradle to down tube to carry new Zefal pump.A proper old fashioned pump with a flex. threaded hose.

Modified a mimi-pump cradle to carry a 15mm ring spanner & fitted it to the seat tube with the repositioned bottle cage.

Fitted a new Topeak saddle pack & filled it with anti-fairy kit,levers,multitool,knife,latex gloves,tie wraps & inner tube.

Fitted new rear light to the tab on the saddle pack.

[Tim Hall]

As reported in "have you been out today?", the tandem developed a graunching noise. Only apparent when putting power down, and not constant. I could feel it through the pedals, but the noise seemed to come from the back wheel.

Tonight I stripped the 3 x 7 hub down and cleaned all the gubbins within. I nearly didn't bother with the bearing race tucked inside the cassette carrier, but it kind of came loose as I was poking around. And lo! one of the balls was broken.

Very reassuring to find the cause. New balls tomorrow.

[Oaky]

New cleats onto the SPD shoes.  I got fed up of inadvertently pulling the old ones out of the pedals, so finally raided the tuit drawer for a round one.

[Gattopardo]

cleaning brake pads, washing and picking out bits as the grinding noises are getting annoying.

Then replace the brake calipers and chain as well as giving the bike a clean.  Should replace the deraileurs as well but as avoidance I'm sure it will work.

[clarion]

Mended punctur* on way home in the ticket hall at Tooting station.  Not sure if that counts as fettling proper.

Once home, I fitted a new front brake cable to Butterfly's Galaxy, which involved redoing the bar tape   Interestingly, it is the first brake cable I have ever seen snap anywhere other than at the nipple in the lever.  It actually broke where it met the cable clamp on the brake, indicating that perhaps the diverter outer had been collecting water.

I replaced the frayed gear cable on my fixed,  tightened the chain, and tried to make the cable stop more secure.  But the nipple on the end of the barrel adjuster broke off as I tightened the cable grip

Need new parts; time for another call to Old Bike Trader.

[Chris S]

My Pompino is cross with me. I have not fettled it in any way whatsoever during the last three months. In that time it has endured Skogg^tm Factor 10 audaxes in Norfolk and Suffolk, and any number of local utility rides through waves of goop, slush and animal waste.

So, it should hardly be a surprise to me that, on the ride to and from Tesco today, the chain sounded like a bag of old rusty nails.

This coming weekend will be a fettlefest for the Pomp. It may even look blue again afterwards.

[Rhys W]

This morning I fired up the Dremel and ground down the tabs on a 9-sp cassette so that the sprockets now slot onto an old 8-sp freehub body. Now my 15-year old Shamals will finally index properly with the levers!

[CrinklyLion]

I fettled some cake from a shop, and gave it to people with significantly better fettling skills than I (admittedly, this is not hard) and one of them fettled the indexing on the Very Lovely Valencia and I got gears back for the journey home having been single-speed in a rather-too-high-gear all day.  Cake-based economy ftw!

[Kim]

Fettled the new shorter cranks and respective chainrings onto the SMGT.  This required a bit of front derailleur-fu and a bit of precision chainring guard bending.

Extended the boom to compensate, making sure to apply strips of insulating tape first to simplify rotational alignment.

Arsed about with the crank position sensor cadence magnet until it deigned to stay put.

Took it all out for a test run and un-fettled my knee.   

[Woofage]

The new gear cables have certainly improved shifting, but I really should have attended to the chain while I was at it. It's looking 'orrible. A little job for the weekend.

[bloomers100]

Took the drops and modolo morphos shifters of Mrs B's Thorn Nomad and replaced them with On One Feegle bar and Deore brakes and rapid shifters.

First time for something like this for me, it appears to have gone okay, hope she likes it and uses the Thorn more, she was nervous of the narrow drops.

[vorsprung]

fixed the rear mudguard which had lost a cable tie this morning

[jogler]

The Langster has had yet more attention*
Removed an 18t s/s freewheel & an 18t sprocket.
Fitted a 16t s/s freewheel & 17t sprocket.
Re-fitted the wheel running on the fixed side:66"

*I may as well sell the rest of the fleet considering the lack of interest/use they have recieved lately

[spesh]

I may as well sell the rest of the fleet considering the lack of interest/use they have recieved lately

N - x?

Cue the forum equivalent of a Bateman "The man who..." cartoon... 

 

Joking apart, I sorted out the gear indexing and brake lever position on my winter bike.

[Feline]

I just cleaned my bike and adjusted it's brakes ready for tomorrows Glastonbury 100 miler Audax. A local club friend has given me a Carradice bar bag with a map case on top that will actually work above my Cyo light mounted on the fork crowns, so I switched over the Ortleib bracket for this one. A bit of bodging was required because the bracket isn't designed to fit my oversize bars. I have attached it with only 2 screws rather than the 4 it comes with, but the little cable that goes round the stem should actually bear the weight, and since my bar bag will pretty much just contain bananas and baby wipes^[1] it should hopefully be fine.

^[1] What more could I possibly need on a 150km Audax ?

[Oaky]

X Windows on my laptop back into working order.

An upgrade of the X components meant that it would no longer start, and after recompiling "all the usual stuff"¹ it still wasn't working.

Turned out that recent X needs a different option setting in the kernel's i915 driver.

You learn something new every day.

1. it's Gentoo Linux ... this kind of thing is normal

[TimO]

1. it's Gentoo Linux ... this kind of thing is normal

LOL, Indeed.  "emerge --update world" is a recipe for spending the rest of the week trying to get a server working again.

[essexian]

The dishwasher....

It started leaking just before Christmas so was put on my "must do at once" list....and promptly forgotten. The only time it re-entered my thoughts was when I got home from my Saturday morning ride last week to find SWMBO had removed it from under the work unit and was fiddling around with its insides whilst still plugged in... So, being a man, I promptly took over (well had a cup of tea first) and decided to see why it was leaking.... it must be something major.... nope, the outflow pipe had a hole in it! Doh!

So, ordered a new one and spent 20 mins this afternoon fitting the new one. Easy job which really shouldnt have taken me six weeks to sort. I am quite good at DIY but very, very, very lazy!

[corshamjim]

Some minor adjustments to my new Trek Pilot.  I'm really pleased it's so comfortable 'out of the box'.  I only rode it 6 miles today though - will give it a proper run on thursday weather-permitting, then have a go at my local club 100k audax on Sunday.

Also really pleased my Blackburn mirror fits nicely to the handlebar - it's not much use when I'm on the hoods but fine when on the tops or down in the drops.

[TimO]

A quick fettle of the Arkel Randonneur rack, to a better position than I had last week for the Night Ride to Bognor (hopefully).  I had forgotten that when I took it off to clean the bike, I should have cleaned the rack as well.  It was more than a little grubby, since it was effectively a mudguard, and protected my rear and back from the minor road gunk that the damp, but not freshly rained on roads threw up.

I've also swapped out one of the water bottle holders for the Street Cuff mount, which is probably more useful this time of year, when voluminous amounts of liquids aren't quite so essential.

[Jurek]

Purple Extreme for The Chain.
Johnson's Baby Oil for most of the rest of it, taking great care to avoid braking surfaces.
That is all.

[Kim]

Some more fiddling with 1-wire stuff, now I have the prototyping adaptors for using surface-mount chips on breadboard.  It all seems to be working as intended.  Need to throw some code together to do something useful...

[Adrian]

Johnson's Baby Oil for most of the rest of it, taking great care to avoid braking surfaces.
That is all.

We had an almost full bottle of JBO donated for the scout's jumble sale this morning. After thinking "who the hell gives away an almost full bottle of baby oil" I thought "I know someone who could put this to good use"

[TimO]

..."I know someone who could put this to good use"

Hummers?

[Kim]

Need to throw some code together to do something useful...

W00t!

kim@willow:~/documents/programming/1wire$ time java OneWireBus
Found temperature sensor at: /10.CFB613020800
Found hardwired ID chip at: /81.3ADC2E000000
Found temperature sensor at: /1F.E46808000000/main/28.6C47D1020000
Found temperature sensor at: /1F.E46808000000/main/28.DC62D1020000
Found 8-bit IO at: /1F.E46808000000/main/29.36AA09000000
Found 4k RAM + counter at: /1F.E46808000000/main/1D.2F510F000000
Found temperature sensor at: /1F.426708000000/main/28.A222D1020000
Found temperature sensor at: /1F.426708000000/main/28.E232D1020000
Found temperature sensor at: /1F.426708000000/main/28.CD65D1020000
Found temperature sensor at: /1F.426708000000/main/28.E74AD1020000
Found temperature sensor at: /1F.576708000000/aux/28.DC33D1020000
Found temperature sensor at: /1F.576708000000/aux/28.324DD1020000
Found temperature sensor at: /1F.576708000000/aux/28.4D69D1020000
Found temperature sensor at: /1F.576708000000/aux/28.7F47D1020000
Temperatue at /10.CFB613020800 is:      25.0625
Temperatue at /1F.E46808000000/main/28.6C47D1020000 is:      24.3125
Temperatue at /1F.E46808000000/main/28.DC62D1020000 is:        24.25
Temperatue at /1F.426708000000/main/28.A222D1020000 is:       24.125
Temperatue at /1F.426708000000/main/28.E232D1020000 is:      24.1875
Temperatue at /1F.426708000000/main/28.CD65D1020000 is:       24.125
Temperatue at /1F.426708000000/main/28.E74AD1020000 is:      24.0625
Temperatue at /1F.576708000000/aux/28.DC33D1020000 is:       24.125
Temperatue at /1F.576708000000/aux/28.324DD1020000 is:       23.875
Temperatue at /1F.576708000000/aux/28.4D69D1020000 is:       24.125
Temperatue at /1F.576708000000/aux/28.7F47D1020000 is:       24.125
PIO at /1F.E46808000000/main/29.36AA09000000 are: 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
IO states at /1F.E46808000000/main/29.36AA09000000 are: 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
IO latches at /1F.E46808000000/main/29.36AA09000000 are: 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
Counters at /1F.E46808000000/main/1D.2F510F000000 are:     68092061,    67716534

real   0m9.458s
user   0m0.160s
sys   0m0.065s

 

*comments code and drags self to bed*