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The Dutchie I was given had way too high gears for North Britain, let alone Kirk Brae.
Went to the Bike Station, got me a pair of MTB cranks and a 22-tooth chainring. Cut the gear stack in half. (I just invented 'gear stack'. Cool huh?)
Tested it on a run to the shops and over the football pitches. Seems dandy. Young ladies smiling/laughing at the old boy on the granny bike.
Chaincase don't fit no more but them's the brakes.
Are. Are you CHEATING on the Scaffolding Bike(™)?
Shock. Bemusement. Checking sky for other signs of impending doom.
If it has a rack and you're actually going to put a pannier on it I might bring my apocalypse bunker construction timetable forward a bit.
It has a rack with a spring-loaded mousetrap thing. Needs a wicker basket made of titanium.
Am I cheating on the Scaffolding Bike™? It will let me know if I am. Unscrew itself or something.
@IWRATS Sounds like you need an Aldi/Lidl pannier with a convenient hole at the back of the bit which goes on top of the rack which is probably designed for a spring-loaded package carrier.
If you have to ask, then the answer is yes.
Its a thought crime.
I now have a fresh cassette, a fresh chain, a fresh middle chainring, a shorter bolt holding the mudguard on the sprocket side, a rear derailleur which will access all nine sprockets and a large gash on my right wrist from the old chainring when it suddenly plunged into me as I was trying to loosen its bolts.
Ouch, I hope the parts are still shiny once your wrist is healed.
(Due to good weather not lack of use)
The brackets on one of my mudguards have become detached from the mudguard themselves. I'm going to try fixing this later today with a riveter. Any advice?
Last time I did this, it was surprisingly easy. Most of the old rivets just fell out, or were very easy to drill out. Good luck!
As a result of this and of additional support from @Medium Dave, I do have a wide range of mudguard spares, so PM or email me if you need any particular bits.
If it doesn't rivet well an extra hole and some cable-tie-fu should do it.
Thanks. Riveting seems to have worked, for now.
Was actually yesterday, but new rear wheel put on and new brake pads all round.
(Why did I wait so long before buying a 'third hand' tool though? First time I've used mine since I bought it in a sale earlier in the summer - wow! Makes adjusting the brakes and tightening the cable back up an absolute doddle).
“Why did I wait so long before buying a 'third hand' tool though?“
Indeed.
(I STILL haven’t got one!!!)
I replaced the rusted headset on the bargain Bianchi; the last job left to do on it. Only a couple of anxious moments:
@Cyclingmollie
I find changing head bearings is the most satisfying job on a bike. The old ones can be smashed to bits but the bike still rides, then you put in the new ones and the change is night and day and yet super-subtle at the same time?
@iwrats I know, it just makes ther bike feel nicer to ride which I didn't expect.
My bike maintenance this weekend was embarrassingly feeble. Was attempting to change chainset and BB off less well treated and well travelled winter bike. Managed to get pedals off. When trying to removing cranks, forgot to remove the wee bolt off the square taper and ended up stripping the threads on one crank. Have good puchase on other but cannot remove. I admit failure - bike shop it is.
Bike shop told me that they couldn't get my rounded bolt out my wobbly crank on the MTB when I had it in for a brake bleed (crank removal unrelated), and that it'd be £60 for them to drill or saw it out.
1 hour and 8 junior hacksaw blades later. Cranks extracted. £60 saved, and I have bulging forearms.
Need to buy a proper hacksaw. Using the one the man who fitted our curtains left behind didn't cut it (if you pardon the pun). Also going to buy some harder drill bits...
Sadly realised that I don't have the correct part to fit the other cranks... so will be continuing to avoid the mountains for a wee while.
£60!?
Presume they’d use an angle grinder?
10 mins??
@ARobComp
I have a Dremel cutter and a set of stud extractors and an almost fanatical devotion to getting stuck fixers out.
Gimme a shout next time?
I will indeed. It was very much a case of "I've started therefore I SHALL finish.
No way I was letting that damn thing win.
After rattling home with my cracked mudguard I replaced it with the rear one from the set I bought whenever it was that my front mudguard last broke relatively painlessly. I was able to re-use the wire stays (which meant I didn't have to unwind the light wire) and eyebolts and the bolts from both bridges. I saw a spare rubber washer the other day but couldn't remember where I put it, so the seat stay bridge has a bit of plastic from an old lock bracket to spread the load a bit.
"Ha. I see Shimano have decided to kill eight speed drivetrains. Thanks a million."
There are a first few in Evans the Bike's clearance/ex-display section just now...
Finally sorted out the MTB. Managed to bodge a one-by so I'm now officially enduro. The new gearing is actually better suited to my riding style and I've enjoyed it so far!
Next I had some red faced moment as I was at the bike shop describing the brake pads I need, and the shop man was telling me I was likely wrong. I was very insistent that they were round, but 100% sure they're shimano brakes.
"no shimano have rectangular brakes" says he.
We ponder for a time and I start relaying the story of how I had the pads out recently, and how they clip in and out and don't have a wee butterfly clip and.... oh wait I'm remembering fixing my OTHER bikes brakes which I fixed just after I'd sawn off the cranks from the MTB.
Bought the correct pads .
#firstworldbikeproblems
For historical reasons, the bike that now spends most of its time as a turbo trainer has a Brooks B17 saddle, which seems rather extravagant for intermittent short bursts of sweaty activity. A quick trip to the bike shed before tea swapped the B17 onto my Brompton. Now the turbo trainer has a Brompton saddle on it (which will be convenient if I ever need to lift it by the saddle)...
It seems to have improved the ride of the Brompton somewhat too.
I YouTubed and then messed around with the front derailleur on my new-to-me MTB. (I've reached n+2, donation to Bike Station imminent). I determined that the cable was slack and a tiny bit frayed. I improved the situation greatly but it needs tightened further. However I'm happy enough not to have made it worse. :)
I'll have another go before I take her out next. She'll be going in for a service soon enough anyway.
Wife asked me to "service" the trailer. I did so and went through all the bits and bobs and worked on suspension, checked bolts, greased some bits, was quite happy with myself.
Turns out she meant she wanted me to "clean" the trailer...
Tomorrows job.
Mrs Greenroofer is working late tonight. I may have brought the Elephant Bike into the kitchen to make an urgent repair to the wobbly front light. I may then have noticed a spray can of Pledge furniture polish that Mrs G once bought when I was away. I may have given the EB a quick once-over with Pledge.
Whatever, the shiny bike is now outside and the window is open to clear the smell of polish from the kitchen before she returns.
@greenroofer, living on a knife edge, I watched kill bill vol 1 with number one son. Just as it ended his mum, Mrs Garto arrived home from choir. That was a close shave.
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