What bike repairs/maintenance have you done today?
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I picked up the £30 bike-stand Aldi have for sale at the moment. Very impressed with it for the price. It holds both my road bikes and my MTB no problem and has a solid range of motion.
So I used it to give my commuting bike a good clean and tightened up the front gear mech which had been rubbing. I'll find out if it is successful on Monday.
So I used it to give my commuting bike a good clean and tightened up the front gear mech which had been rubbing. I'll find out if it is successful on Monday.
Paraicj said:
I picked up the £30 bike-stand Aldi have for sale at the moment. Very impressed with it for the price. It holds both my road bikes and my MTB no problem and has a solid range of motion.
So I used it to give my commuting bike a good clean and tightened up the front gear mech which had been rubbing. I'll find out if it is successful on Monday.
I got mine from Lidl a year or so ago and I'm still impressed with the value for noney!So I used it to give my commuting bike a good clean and tightened up the front gear mech which had been rubbing. I'll find out if it is successful on Monday.
Tonight I used it to re-tension the front wheel on the commuter (Fulcrum Racing 5)...
I tried just tweeking the nipples (ooh matron!...
) but afer two years of all weather use and a winter of off roading some were stiff and a couple had seized all together!Queue a full strip down, clean, lube and adjustment! Bought Roger Musson's wheel building guide which helped a lot and have got it as close as I can without a trueing stand!
Been up and down the road on it, the annoying creaks and tings have gone and it feels ok...
I was eying up the stand in Aldi today, should have gotten it really given the reviews on here. Bit of a faff using a tiny one to adjust the gearing on my roadbike today. But managed to get it running quiet and indexing properly so happy with teh result.. just wish I'd done it before the ride this morning.
Today forum I have.....
Completely rebuilt my forks!
What started out as entry level 2009 SID Race are now effectively 2010 SID World Cup. Carbon uppers bought from On-one in their recent 'all things RS we bought from Fisher's' sale (net price after selling my old uppers of £40), nearly new XLoc compression damper from Ebay (net price £10) and a dual flow rebound damper (net price £25 from Amazon brand new), as the SIDs only cost £65 two years ago (slightly worn stanchions) that seems a good deal for what are to all practical purposes new forks (just the airshaft and lower - bushings still mint) are original.
Completely rebuilt my forks!
What started out as entry level 2009 SID Race are now effectively 2010 SID World Cup. Carbon uppers bought from On-one in their recent 'all things RS we bought from Fisher's' sale (net price after selling my old uppers of £40), nearly new XLoc compression damper from Ebay (net price £10) and a dual flow rebound damper (net price £25 from Amazon brand new), as the SIDs only cost £65 two years ago (slightly worn stanchions) that seems a good deal for what are to all practical purposes new forks (just the airshaft and lower - bushings still mint) are original.
My 'powerfully built' son snapped his chain riding home from work in the dark the other night, so I nipped to the recently opened Decathlon store in town and got an 8-speed SunRace cassette and a 3 to 8 speed KMC chain and got change from £16.00!
So I got the chain whip and cassette lockring tool out and swapped things over, along with a bit of a clean-up of his rear mech and cables.
So I got the chain whip and cassette lockring tool out and swapped things over, along with a bit of a clean-up of his rear mech and cables.
Changed the gearing on my single speed after Battle On The Beach, back to my normal XC gear, trued up the back wheel on the wife's bike after yesterday unscheduled dismount, new tyres on my spare cyclocross wheels, and swap the skewers on my single speed cyclocross bike for some anti-theft ones prior to a theatre trip to Halifax. A quiet week.
5 bikes...Fitted 2 new chains, cleaned and lubed the other 2,
stripped, cleaned and lubed the idler wheels in 2 x derailleurs
Adjusted the cable of a front brake
Fitted 2 new tyres to the road bike
Fitted new pads to the road bike
Checked all bearings and checked wheels for buckles - nothing untoward to report
All bikes running well now and looking forward to more family bike rides this summer
stripped, cleaned and lubed the idler wheels in 2 x derailleurs
Adjusted the cable of a front brake
Fitted 2 new tyres to the road bike
Fitted new pads to the road bike
Checked all bearings and checked wheels for buckles - nothing untoward to report
All bikes running well now and looking forward to more family bike rides this summer
Getting the now old bike (which has been on turbo duty all winter) prepped ready for my first go at circuit racing with the local club on Thursday.
Good tyres over to my AR24 wheels, tweak brakes, as the AR24's are narrower then the carbons which are now on the nice summer bike. Clean and lube the chain and dial in the indexing.
I'll give her a washdown before the race too as it's quite dusty from garage duties.
Good tyres over to my AR24 wheels, tweak brakes, as the AR24's are narrower then the carbons which are now on the nice summer bike. Clean and lube the chain and dial in the indexing.
I'll give her a washdown before the race too as it's quite dusty from garage duties.
Shakedown week of riding revealed I had the wrong size brake adaptor on the rear of my full sus so was only using the outer 3/4 mm of the disc. Explains why I had a different one in my spares box that I couldn't explain why I had it - now changed so full braking capability is restored.
Neighbour ordered a bike off the internet and was surprised to discover that the gears had not been set up, so did that for them.
Neighbour ordered a bike off the internet and was surprised to discover that the gears had not been set up, so did that for them.
Tracked down an annoying click from the crank area on my road bike, turned out to be the left pedal.
Its been driving my crazy for about 3 months now, luckily it had got to a point that i could just feel the play in the pedal spindle.
Swapped out for a pair of unused ones of my wife's bike, lovely click free cycling now.
It did take the best part of 30 minutes to get the pedal out though
Its been driving my crazy for about 3 months now, luckily it had got to a point that i could just feel the play in the pedal spindle.
Swapped out for a pair of unused ones of my wife's bike, lovely click free cycling now.
It did take the best part of 30 minutes to get the pedal out though
Friday, rather than today, but cleaned, polished and sealed - thankyou, Crankalicious - stripped-off Raceblades and the frame tape that was under the mounts for them, transferred tyres to 60mm carbon clinchers with removable-core Schwalbe innertubes and new valve extenders - which are too long so will be replaced with shorter ones - removed lights and added new Lezyne toolbag: now back in summer plumage:
Fixed the sag my reverb Stealth was suffering from, it seems it's a load of rubbish that it needs warrantee replacement or the £80 rebuild. Once I'd got it in my head how it all works it became obvious it could be done simply and easily with minimal fuss. Basically depressurise, remove hose, remove poppet valve cover remove poppet valve and shaft. Cycle the post and remove all the oil (mine spurted out in a fountain of foam), refill to point it'll take no more and no air comes out when gently cycling it. Remove the same depth of oil as your poppet shaft 186mm in my case and I used a straw. Refit poppet value having greased the sealing o rings. Refit poppet cover, full that with fluid, reconnect hose, pump up to 250psi and job done all working perfectly and no sag.
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