Author Topic: What have you fettled today? (Read 2186950 times)

Ray 6701 · « **Reply #2275 on:** 02 October, 2010, 09:22:33 pm »

My luverly Denon stereo that miraculously is now working properly again

FatBloke · « **Reply #2276 on:** 03 October, 2010, 02:39:17 pm »

I have just had to true my Mavic Aksium rear wheel as it was ever so slightly wobbly.
Mavic wheels are rubbish! You wouldn't have thought it would need truing yet, it's only had 44 months of hard (ab)use!!

dasmoth · « **Reply #2277 on:** 03 October, 2010, 03:42:12 pm »

Tempo eventually restored to roadworthiness, although not without pinching a brake pad holder from another bike. Ah well, I don't need gears for the next few months, do I.

Added brake pad holders to the ever-growing list of things I should probably hold in stock... (also, tried copperslip on the grub screws this time).

Adam · « **Reply #2278 on:** 03 October, 2010, 05:57:42 pm »

Cleaned all the muck off the Planet X accumulated from the trip to Dunwich, and then rode up and down the street pleased that the grating noise had disappeared.

Then my foot slipped off the pedal (I was wearing trainers rather than my SPD shoes) and I hurt myself rather a lot. It's a good job I didn't want any more children anyway.

Ray 6701 · « **Reply #2279 on:** 03 October, 2010, 07:13:50 pm »

Brakes on both road bikes, simple tightening up job on the defy & new pads fitted to the tcr.

robgul · « **Reply #2280 on:** 03 October, 2010, 07:30:43 pm »

Stripped a fully built up bike to f&f to package them for despatch - about 16 mins ... is that a record?

Rob

rower40 · « **Reply #2281 on:** 03 October, 2010, 08:16:32 pm »

I put the Brompton into the garage so that the mud on it will dry, flake off, and leave me with a self-fettled pristine clean machine.

Kim · « **Reply #2282 on:** 03 October, 2010, 09:01:26 pm »

Your optimism needs fettling.

IanDG · « **Reply #2283 on:** 03 October, 2010, 10:10:38 pm »

I fixed 'Bob'

LindaG · « **Reply #2284 on:** 04 October, 2010, 12:53:48 pm »

Yesterday I unblocked a drain

I think I deserve a Pompino for that.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2285 on:** 04 October, 2010, 08:41:32 pm »

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 04 October, 2010, 12:53:48 pm

Yesterday I unblocked a drain

I think I deserve a Pompino for that.

I don't think it's technically possible to give a GURL a Pompino

I fitted a new mudguard clip (courtesy of Tewdric) to the clubman so it's ready for the FNRttS...the last long ride of this year, probably. And there's a raspberry crumble cooking in the oven because the Little Misses came home from my parents with a big bowl of slightly gooey raspberries.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2286 on:** 04 October, 2010, 08:47:41 pm »

I finally got around to trimming the absurdly long loop of gear cable inner that has been coiled up, protruding from the rear derailleur, ever since I changed it a couple of months ago. It was in June, IIRC. I've even fitted one of those little caps to stop the cable fraying (further). Should I mention that I only got around to this today because I ground to a sudden halt when the coil got somehow looped round the jockey wheel, jamming the chain?

TimO · « **Reply #2287 on:** 04 October, 2010, 10:16:44 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 04 October, 2010, 08:41:32 pm

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 04 October, 2010, 12:53:48 pm
Yesterday I unblocked a drain

I think I deserve a Pompino for that.
I don't think it's technically possible to give a GURL a Pompino

Explanation:Google Translate

clarion · « **Reply #2288 on:** 05 October, 2010, 08:51:12 am »

But you can have fun trying...

LindaG · « **Reply #2289 on:** 05 October, 2010, 10:04:31 am »

Quote from: clarion on 05 October, 2010, 08:51:12 am

But you can have fun trying...

I have no idea what to say.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2290 on:** 05 October, 2010, 08:29:49 pm »

Removed my broken bottle cage from the frame. The result of flappy trousers only secured on the chain side, strong winds and a weak weld.

Kim · « **Reply #2291 on:** 05 October, 2010, 09:04:15 pm »

Did a bit of voodoo ergonomics on barakta's stoker bars. We appear to have success, in that after an hour's riding her right arm is now suffering more than her left, and her arse is suffering more than both.

TimO · « **Reply #2292 on:** 05 October, 2010, 11:19:28 pm »

I forgot that on my way to work, the front brake started making some metal-on-metal time to replace pad sounds. A quick fettle of a set of spare pads onto the bike made sure things were OK on the way home.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #2293 on:** 06 October, 2010, 08:22:45 am »

Mrs Dan ran over some glass on Monday. Replacement tube also went down. Yesterday evening I spent some time looking for bits of something nasty in the tyre. Tube still went bang (properly bang, just spinning the wheel). Dan's diagnosis - that tear in the tyre, maybe 5mm, pokes into the tube. Time for a new tyre. Time to do an emergency child-seat-ectomy and fiddle with light brackets on my old Trek to make today commutable.

Biggsy · « **Reply #2294 on:** 06 October, 2010, 08:27:33 am »

Last night: attached my Lumicycle twin halogen lights (that I've not used for ages) upside down to an Acor accessory bar. Flippin' hell, they're bright.

Had to drill a new hole in one of the light cans to move the switch to where I can get my fingers.

tiermat · « **Reply #2295 on:** 06 October, 2010, 08:49:28 am »

finally got my replacement MTE light back from the ebay seller, so fitted it to the Ridley.

Tonight might be the night for a dark ride.....

clarion · « **Reply #2296 on:** 06 October, 2010, 09:38:45 am »

Nice smooth ride into work. I enjoyed every bit. And added a couple of km on the end so that I can reach my annual target today.

tiermat · « **Reply #2297 on:** 06 October, 2010, 10:13:57 am »

Quote from: clarion on 06 October, 2010, 09:38:45 am

Nice smooth ride into work. I enjoyed every bit. And added a couple of km on the end so that I can reach my annual target today.

Wrong thread?

clarion · « **Reply #2298 on:** 06 October, 2010, 10:22:11 am »

Yes. That should have been in On The Commute. No idea what happened there. Possibly reality interface issues at the competence filter.

tiermat · « **Reply #2299 on:** 06 October, 2010, 10:23:01 am »

You mean you haven't had your ~~first~~ third cup of coffee yet then

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