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  • Started 6 years ago by Greenroofer
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  1. amir
    Member

    For the front derailleur, I have added an inline barrel adjuster to make it easier.

    Front derailleurs do seem to stay stable longer though. The rear derailleur needs adjustment in the first miles of usage as the cable stretches, cogs wear quicker, and the cable needs replacing more frequently.

    Incidentally, when I were a lad, having a bike with the old non-indexed system, I can't remember changing anything. That is apart from a gear cable that failed just before the ascent of Pen-y-Pass, when loaded for touring. That might explain the knee pains I had in those days.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  2. ARobComp
    Member

    Well done Bill. It's still a job I hate and frankly bumble through using the old mix of time and alcohol to solve.

    Inexplicably my front shifter on my road bike works perfectly the SECOND time you use it. The first time you have to use your shoe to help it shift up but after that it works perfectly every time. I have to remember to shift up and down at least once before I get going on the main part of my ride. Adjustment results in no shift one way or the other so I find the original spot and continue with initial shoe shifting. "If it is probably broke but sort of works, don't fix it"

    Posted 3 years ago #

  3. CocoShepherd
    Member

    Full de- and re-grease in preparation for Operation Belly Loss once the ice melts. Only two knuckles scuffed from loosening tight threads and only one pedal spanner bit the dust.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  4. MediumDave
    Member

    @bill well done.

    My tourer still has a friction shifter for the chainrings. Nae fuss or bother, though one has to be slightly careful when changing the cable that the lever positions for the various rings are the same as before!

    By contrast setting up the rapidfire front shifter on my MTB is an exercise in massive frustration. I can get them working sweet as you like on the workstand and even riding round the block, but mud and clag seems to throw it all off again. If I wasn't a total skinflint I'd go 1x11 just to avoid dealing with the wretched thing in future...

    Posted 3 years ago #

  5. themightysimmonite
    Member

    Replaced both gear cables on the NuVinci Hub Gear on my Reise & Mueller eCargo bike. Followed guidance available on Park Tools website. Nowhere near as difficult as I'd feared. Now changing gear much more sweetly. Actually I think the cables were wrongly routed either at point of manufacture or by LBS when bike was assembled.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Fitted some SKS race blade longs to a forum member's winter bike. Lovely German engineering gonna miss that stuff when stocks run out.

    Bike really quite manky. Unclear what some of the bolts were. 'Sheer neglect' some would say but not I. Bikes are to be ridden, not polished.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    I agree

    With both bits

    Posted 3 years ago #

  8. gembo
    Member

    Looking at a new rear wheel on Sigma Sports. Shimano RS 100. Makes strange claim it is compatible with 8,9,10 and 11 spd cassettes.

    Really?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  9. jonty
    Member

    Changed from 9 to 11 speed with some spacer fiddling on my current hub...is it the 8 speed that's incongruous?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  10. gembo
    Member

    I thought so, basically is 11 spd but with spacers down to 9 or is it 9 spd with spacers up to 11?

    But with additional claim for 8 which is pushing it

    The Q and A had them confirming 9,10 and 11 but no mention of 8.

    They were clear was a wheel for clincher brakes but several Qs about disc

    Posted 3 years ago #

  11. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    Pretty sure I have a old, used a handful of times indoors rear RS100 in my attic. Would date from before 11-speed Shimano was a thing. Free to a good home :)

    Posted 3 years ago #

  12. gembo
    Member

    @ murun, I would like it then as not keen putting a new wheel on with the grit.

    How will we do this? Need# to get to the Liberton end of the Inch.

    Will involve wine. Red or white you choose.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  13. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    @gembo having checked, it is actually a R500 like in the link below. Let me know if still of interest

    https://www.mantel.com/uk/shimano-wh-r500-road-wheelset

    Posted 3 years ago #

  14. gembo
    Member

    Ok, @murunbuchstansangur

    Looks similar. I will check with the mechanic. Cheers

    Gembo

    Posted 3 years ago #

  15. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Helped my pal's son upgrade their bike for Deliveroo work in a socially distant and legal manner. New cranks, bottom bracket and fork. He wanted to learn so I talked him through it and we got there in the end.

    He put the bottom bracket in squint but I took it out and we got it back in straight which was a relief. Slammed his stem and trimmed the carbon fibre steerer on the lovely E-bay fork. I fitted the crown race as I couldn't bear to watch him trying. Star-fangled nut needed ground down to fit so he is learning all about The Bodging. His Marathon tyres have about 500μm clearance under the fancy fork so they'll have to go.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  16. gembo
    Member

    @Iwrats, you been a busy boy the day.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  17. bill
    Member

    The rattle in my rear mudguard got so bad yesterday that I couldn't handle it any longer. As soon as I got home I removed the rear wheel so that I had to attend the bike after eating my pancakes instead of convincing myself that it wasn't too bad after all.

    I wrapped the clamp that sits under the seat in some insulation and Gaffer tape. Nice and quiet this morning at thew start of the ride. A little bit of noise on a rough surface decent into Kirknewton. But overall SO MUCH BETTER! Hopefully will stay like that for a while.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  18. gembo
    Member

    I took my Specialized Secteur Elite out for a spin above Balerno yesterday. No one threw their hands up as I had forgotten my helmet. Several passers by walked into lamp posts due to the brilliance of my Torm RTTS long sleeve top and the fact the bike made no noise on the IWRATs fangled SKS mudguards, and the Murun Buchstansangur donated new back wheel. I also wore the IWRATs repaired Specialized deep winter bootees that neither EBC nor Boa nor Specialized were interested in repairing. My feet were toasty.

    As Lindsay Anderson said O Lucky Man

    Posted 3 years ago #

  19. amir
    Member

    Dodgy gears got special treatment on Monday. Rear derailleur removed and lubricated to be freer moving, new cable and housing, cassette and chain. Good ride yesterday with slick changes. This morning chain slipping when standing - so looks like a trip to the bike shop to change the inner ring (not efficient for me to do it - bad mechanic!). Bus arrival phenomenon.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  20. gembo
    Member

    @amir, once you disturb the equilibrium with the drive train yes, it gets worse before it gets better I fear. I used to clean the bike more but I also find mud to hold things together kind of

    Posted 3 years ago #

  21. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Yes, winter wears components away but the filth takes the place of the metal to an extent? You clean the arrangement and it flops around. This is my theory.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  22. gembo
    Member

    I like the rationale of that theory.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  23. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    It could be tested with a micrometer. All propositions should be tested by experiment or argument.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  24. gembo
    Member

    Very wee and yet objective I imagine, a micrometer measuring mud?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  25. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    CLARIFICATION: I would measure the metal not the mud.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  26. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    @gembo Glad that the wheel has found gainful employ

    Posted 3 years ago #

  27. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Great CCE community action getting @Murun's wheel onto @gembo's bike.

    I have a bee in my bonnet about stuff that won't/can't be repaired. In case anyone did not know.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  28. chdot
    Admin

    “I have a bee in my bonnet about stuff that won't/can't be repaired.“

    I thought you were more interested in finding new/better lives for things.

    I’m now being more ‘sensible’ about keeping things ‘just in case’.

    Just dismantled 3 wheels with rims that are more damaged than I would ride.

    Rims and rustless spokes to scrap (recycling). Hubs and stainless spokes for reuse.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  29. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    New and better lives are cool right enough but repair is the bread and butter?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  30. chdot
    Admin

    “but repair is the bread and butter?“

    It’s complicated

    Before repair is maintenance.

    Repair implies fixing something that’s actually broken.

    Maintenance - to some extent - prevents or at least reduces chances of ‘broken’.

    But repair can be as basic as freeing adjuster screws on rear mechs. Doesn’t always work. Drilling screw out would be a repair. But, worth it?

    Posted 3 years ago #

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