[Closed] What've you been fixing on your bike this weekend?

I've been trying to remove the freewheel on my karate monkey to a fit a lovely new White Industries one. Bloody hell it's on tight! Event resorted to clamping the freewheel tool in my vice but still can't persuade it to loosen.

LBS job I fear

Not repairing, but my mtb bars have just gone from 711 to 750, and my road bars from 42 to 40. Quite happy with my bar taping too which is my most hated job due to OCD levels of perfectionism.

Nothing. All my bikes are working perfectly. I spend my time fixing other peoples........ 🙂

My lyriks, when I say fixing I mean taking apart to find out what's wrong. Need to wait for bits before fixing occurs.

Finally got round to wrapping my Jones bars and fitting the usb dynamo charger plug and front/rear lights to my tripster with plenty of heatsink tubing applied to keep the water out. USB charger plug fits into stem so no extra wires running loose.

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I can now watch a movie whilst keeping the phone charged - technology…ain't it great how we can escape for a ride in the great outdoors and take our toys/needs with us 😉

No repairs but have put some winter roadie tyres on my MavM40C's, got me some tan walled Clements which make my R5ca look Belgian.

Which is ace.

8)

Attempted to get my new Chunky Monkey on and tubelessed. Gave up and popped a tube in there.

Not really fixing, just tensioning the chain on my SS, tightening up brakes and generally trying to make everything feel less loose and rattly.

Cleaning my Saracen Mantra for sale. Dropped the wheels out and noticed that the mech hanger had cracked. Replaced and nearly ready for sale, just need to take a few pictures in the day light.

Mostly cleaning tyre marks off my bike after yesterdays morvelo battle royale cycle speedway 😀

servicing the bike for winter - new cables and pads. stopped short at re-bleeding Elixirs. Not a task for a hungover, cold Sunday.

Oh yeah.. just remembered why I posted this.. almost had an utter disaster. I was bleeding the brakes using the Hope bleed tool - the one that uses compressed air from a tyre to force fluid through the system. Just as I was undoing the cap on the lever I remembered that I hadn't disconnected the pressure...

set my new nobby nics up tubeless on the mtb, then swapped tyres on my cx bike....pretty much it really apart from some OCD level cleaning on my cx bike.

swapped chain for a cheapie HGX one for winter grinding, changed the jagwire lex cables for XTR and checked the bearings.

Is it usual to have a little drag in the bearings o the rear?

Fitted new to me forks to my new to me ti 456 only to discover I only have 20mm adaptors for the front hub and not the 15mm I need. Have got some for a sun ringle hub but only one side fits the hope hub so waiting on some from CRC. Also the new granny ring is a 26 and the old one was a 22, hoping the 2lb saving on the frame will make up for the higher gearing. Also needed a new middle ring, new cables, front mech and seat collar. She who must be obeyed doesn't know about most of these little extras.

Literally everything today. Felt like a full time job. I'm feeling nice, and my wife wanted my Nomad, so I've stripped her bike down, as the frame is sold already, cleaned all the other bits up ready to get them sold too.

Then I started on my bike, stripped it down, replaced all the bearings, serviced her Pikes ready to go on, bled brakes, build up everything ready to go. Fitted and bled 2 Reverb stealth's set her wheels up tubeless, so they are ready to go.

I'm just waiting on part of a chain guide, some new bars and a new saddle and hers is done. My new bike should be here this week too, so I'll have another one to build up.

Much to my suprise, all four chainring bolts snapped 1/2 a mile into my ride today. Fortunately for me I was at one of those namby pamby trail centres with a shop and workshop space. Think I'll chuck a couple in my backpack from now on

Been fixing the engine, I.e. me.

Sitting on sofa with kids all day. Wrapped up trying to get the better of a cold!!!!

Quick change of mech-hanger yesterday... Should probably do the gear cable on the commuter as the ride home up the hill kind of sucked on Friday in the 52:11

I do believe nothing else needs fixed! Which is weird. Better break something tomorrow

I've stripped and serviced a Magura Thor 140 fork. Initially the rebound adjuster foot was seized in through corrosion and the damper side was weeping oil. A soak in plus gas has freed the adjuster which has been cleaned up. The lowers were bone dry with evidence of corrosion around the wiper seal seats, but bushes and stanchions look perfect. No servicing instructions available anywhere, but an adjustable spanner fits the 28mm spanner flats on the top of the damper leg (you pull out the gold Albert select knob and remove two tiny Torx screws holding the blue platform dial)

The top damper assembly needs no special tools, but a lot of examining and use of logic required to see how the thing is put back together, and after a couple of aborted efforts involving a pingfukkit thanks to a tiny captive bearing, I managed to reassemble it with newly greased seals. It's screwed back into the leg with fresh fluid now, and the lowers have been put back together using a fox wiper seal kit I had knocking about.

I was going to sell it, but my conscience won't allow me to sell something that absolutely demands a dealer only service, so now I'm in the market for a new frame to stick it on, just as soon as I've sold my road bike.

I had a big list of things to fix on four bikes this weekend, and two wheels to build. All I managed was dismantling a BMX, indexing the road bike, and loafing around eating chocolate.

molgrips - Member
Oh yeah.. just remembered why I posted this.. almost had an utter disaster. I was bleeding the brakes using the Hope bleed tool - the one that uses compressed air from a tyre to force fluid through the system. Just as I was undoing the cap on the lever I remembered that I hadn't disconnected the pressure...

I was bleeding a hope recently, with some tube and an old empty lube bottle. The seal was good enough that it built up loads of air pressure in the bottle without me realising, then sprayed dot 5.1 all over the caliper inside and out as I took the tube off the bleed nipple :/

put on new pikes :-), replaced cassette and free hub (Hope one so skinned knuckles getting it off) and rear hub bearings (much swearing)

Built my sons on-one 456 on Friday till 10 pm ready for a dad's and lads ride Saturday ,he woke up Saturday not feeling well so didn't ride it LOL

cnud - Member
Much to my suprise, all four chainring bolts snapped 1/2 a mile into my ride today. Fortunately for me I was at one of those namby pamby trail centres with a shop and workshop space. Think I'll chuck a couple in my backpack from now on

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You need to buy yourself a torque wrench!

Hope bleed tool - the one that uses compressed air from a tyre to force fluid through the system.

This intrigues me greatly.

I have been bleeding my brakes, but without the bottom syringe which broke. Seem to have somehow managed it.

Headset had seized up on the Cove yesterday so stripped that down, cleaned it up and put back together after packing it with nice new grease. Nothing else as it was too cold!

Trying to fix full mud guards over disc brakes on a roadie (CAADX). INFURIATING.

I have fixed the "amount of mud affixed to the bikes" problem.

Massive shed tidy and fixed some brakes for a mate.

Nice work Somafunk
You now have me thinking about Jones bars (again),I just have to convince myself that they will be worth the money*.

* [i]I suppose they will sell if I don't get on with them
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Stuck ultegra sti lever. Changes up but wont click to go down.

I adjusted my ass saver a couple of mm to the left.

mjsmke

Did you try the drowning it in WD40 trick(even better if you have an airline to blow through it)?

You need to buy yourself a torque wrench

I spend my time fixing other peoples........

oh yeah, and fitted my old 711 Haven bars (and a matching old Haven stem) to better half's bike (which is already wearing my cast-off Lyriks...). And changed brake cable inners, properly indexed the gears and stripped, cleaned and re-greased a near solid headset on a mate's bike.

Got a bottle of red out of it.

5 minute bubble bleed for my SLX brakes. Made the world of difference

New pads and oil top up on my TRP hyrd plus new bar tape.

Had to replace the pads on the rear brake (Elixir 5) of the winter bike, then the pistons wouldn't retract to the point that the disc just wouldn't go in with the new pads.
So undid the bleed port and pushed the pistons out until a little bit of 'orrible DOT 4 fluid came out (straight onto my shirt no less), which completely fixed the problem - brakes worked well with no rubbing.

Well they still worked until the first corner of the second lap of the race today, when the back brake completely deserted me, not great. Luckily it was only Thetford, so not too much braking needed.

Prompted entirely by this thread, I've turned the tyre round the right way that I fitted the wrong way in my haste to ride some new wheels. I should add, these wheels are now 2 years old. And are now on their second frame. The stupid thing is, it's always annoyed me, but never quite enough to do anything about it. Until I needed something to do to contribute to this thread.

So thanks for the [s]inspiration[/s] kick up the arse mols.

I fitted some mudguards to my tourer. SKS, all stealthy black. I'm so core.

Fettled the race bike shifting on Friday night before the first (road) race of the season at Hillingdon.

Typical infuriating will change up or down fine, but not both. I've mentioned it before, but it is almost always due to the last cable outer before the RD. True to form the ferule (plastic) had a small kink. Turning it 180 degrees and refitting the cable did the trick.

I must have changed gear 200 times during the race and I think the bike failed to shift just the once. Ultegra 6600 with external cables is very good indeed.

Oh and I moved the four bike racks and roof bars to the new car (another CRV).

Fixing = nothing
Riding = lots

Just the way I like it

Was planning to service my Mavic freehub. Didn't do it in the end, but did ponder a lot about whether or not I could get away without removing the cassette

Bar tape change.

Need to put some more hooks up. Probably tonight.

I got bored last night as now't on TV so ended up cutting the steerer down on my CX'er, something I've been meaning to do since I bought it 😕 Anyway, all done.

If anyone wants to do this it's a bit fiddly..

The steerer in the Giant TCX with carbon forks and steerer has a funny "star nut" configuration. It's contained within a small alloy tube with a star wedge where the nut slides into, as you tighten the alloy bolt up the nut slides up the wedge in the tube..
Don't be tempted to undo the alloy bolt and expect the nut to stay in the steerer because it undoes and drops into the bottom of the steerer tube, which is a bit annoying and you have to turn the bike upside down to get it out.
Anyways the alloy tube thingy that hold the alloy wedge is only a press fit in the steerer, if you just undo the bolt a few turns and then get hold of some mole grips and pull upwards the whole thing comes out of the steerer in one piece.

Just thought I's share that.

Tubelessing various wheels as part of the fleet (or should that be stable as in steeds 🙂 ) revamp. First stans one was a doddle, second one a pain (though eventually got there), the bonty wheel was a doddle (as always - love their rim strip system - though I did have to pump it to 60psi to get the bead to ping in place 😯 ). Just the one more bonty wheel and I'm done with that.

I've turned the tyre round the right way that I fitted the wrong way in my haste to ride some new wheels. I should add, these wheels are now 2 years old. And are now on their second frame. The stupid thing is, it's always annoyed me, but never quite enough to do anything about it.

One of those tyres I've done above was the wrong way around and that's for at least 3 years I reckon. It's right now 8)

I took the back wheel off my singlespeed Genesis thing took fix the puncture and noticed one of the stupid little screw chain tensioner things in the rear dropout was bent. Ah, so that explains why I've been getting a bit of brake rub, thinks I.
So I proceed to replace the stupid little screw thing with a spare.
I think the threads had rusted, cos it took ages to get the old one out and the new one just wouldn't go in. And it was freezing in the garage.
Ended up throwing the frame across the garage and hitting it with my skateboard.
Took it indoors yesterday and sorted it 😆
Luckily I restrained myself from giving it the beating it deserved!
(Anger management issues, I know)

Ended up throwing the frame across the garage and hitting it with my skateboard.

Quick lower leg service. Clocked bushes need replacing on rear shock but that's a job for next year.

My forks - RS Revs - have been leaking a bit of suspension fluid from the damper side. So I took the damper out and had a look, replaced the main O-ring. It still leaked. So I dismantled the damper - who knew the red plastic compression damper unscrews with an LH thread?

With the damper apart I found the culprit a split O-ring under the floodgate. Need to order one as the service kit I bought doesn't include this O-ring

So not fixed, but problem found to fix later once I have the bits I need

Chill? Mate, I was bloody freezing!

Put a new saddle on Mrs Lunge's bike.
Attempted and failed to change the BB on my winter roadie.

Nothing this weekend since I'm convalescing from minor arm surgery to remove a blackthorn. I

'm glad of the rest tbh, after building a new Hardtail with reused bits and undertaking winter maintenance and bearing re greasing, plus stripping my full susser for a full pivot rebuild and degunk (ongoing). I've been a bit sick of it recently.

Put the motorbike battery on charge as it was flat when I went to give it a 5 min run.

Cleaned up my Karate Monkey frame ready for the XT groupset I'm getting for xmas.

Replaced cracked forks and 2 spokes.

Spent a few minutes repairing the cracked rear mudguard on my commuter. Split in two places, drilled two holes either side of the cracks, zip ties through the holes and pull it all back together.

They'll last another few months now. The reason I've repaired rather than replace is that the last time I looked for a set I couldn't find them in stock anywhere in the size I need. But its always good to fix things anyway.

Built up a pre war GT Zaskar for my missus. All my old 9 speed XTR bits and comes in at 22lbs!!!. Then dismantled a Jamis Durango for a mate. I made him come round and clean the chain and cassette cos I ain't working in those sort of conditions!!. And I found out why we moved on from square taper bottom brackets cos I had the fetch it to work this morning and get two very big men to help me undo it!!!.

Oh yeah.. just remembered why I posted this.. almost had an utter disaster. I was bleeding the brakes using the Hope bleed tool - the one that uses compressed air from a tyre to force fluid through the system. Just as I was undoing the cap on the lever I remembered that I hadn't disconnected the pressure...

That bleed kit is the most hateful devise ever conceived by man.

Ergonomically designed around the Octopus - when used by a biped the result is the creation of lethal cloud of corrosive DOT4 which enters eyes mouth and nose before settling on nicely polished paintwork to dissolve at leisure while the hapless victim struggle's desperately to prevent blindness.

I cut the rubber tube off mine and binned the rest - the tube is all you need to bleed Hope brakes.