Memories of the 32 never complete without talk of Hearts Mandy. A woman of indeterminate age covered in badges linked to her support of her beloved HMFC. It was imperative NEVER to meet the eye of Hearts Mandy on any bus coming out of Muirhouse.
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Today's most unsatisfactory and wholly rubbish bicycle maintenance
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Posted 11 months ago #
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Mandy, as in (loudly) “Hiya pal, you going out the night?”, and “Are you ma pal”?
Was a frequent fixture on the 38 when I were small(er). Lovely, if intense.
Posted 11 months ago # -
So, I thought I'd put my gravel bike on my indoor trainer instead of my road bike - for more comfiness on 2 hour training rides..
So, took through axle out, realised bike wasnt going on trainer cos of the SRAM xplr groupset and need a different adapter.
So put through axle back on, set torque wrench to 10Nm as prescribed. Now this is where stupidy/lack of nerves in hand/arm set in. I never fealt the click so kept tightening, and just as I thought, this feels quite tight the end on the through axle snapped. :/
So how to I get that out now that it is overtightened?
I'm hoping if I just undo the rear mech end to take the mech off that the whole lot will just come out the mech side - is there a fair chance of that happening? If not any ideas how to get it out?
Posted 7 months ago # -
Actually that did work. Just loosened the drive side that holds on the rear mech, and the thru axle just slid out. Panic opver, phew!! Visions of sweat and blood, and much expense over.
Posted 7 months ago # -
Been checking over a pal’s old shed-bound bike coop ‘revolution’ for him to get back on the road, ideally changing from drop to straight bars; in looking at the gear shifting, tried re-tensioning cables but still couldn’t get it to shift, until I Googled just now:
Shimano Sora Flight Deck shifters use a dual-control lever system where you push the large main brake lever sideways to shift to an easier gear and press the smaller inner thumb/paddle lever to shift to a harder gear. Always pedal forward lightly while shifting.
Well, today I learned that’s a thing…
Posted 1 month ago # -
You are just young I suppose but I have that style Brifter on my 2013. tricross but the normal Brifter on the 2012.
Brifters on flat bars ?
Posted 1 month ago # -
Young but also clueless. I've never had dropped bars personally so it's never come up - I was just clicking the wee paddle levers and wondering why hee haw happened.
The theory would be the brifters go and 'regular' shifters are used, provided that's technically feasible with the other shtuff on the bike - Shimano HG gears CS-HG41-8aw with Shimano Acera derailleur.
I did feel, in spite of the lack of gumption regarding how to shift, like I was 'getting somewhere' with maintenance in general today. Also refitted the Swytch wheel to the Mrs' steel tourer wiv the proper torque and everything.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Nice, the stuff you knew you were on fire and also another school day
Posted 1 month ago # -
If it's a 2005 Revolution Continental Race I can recommend a hack using B&M fork crown light brackets to enable ⅔ of a full-sized rear mudguard to be fitted.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Started as unsatisfactory story last week with a most satisfactory ending courtesy of @jss of this forum.
Dutch cycle tourist phoned as riding a recliner from John O' Groats south.
Looking for a new front tyre and inner but turns out it's 451 - older 20" variant size We've only ever sold 406 20" bikes - BMX size for which there's big range of rim widths and tyre choices.
Also custom length spokes for 451 rear.Suggest he tries other shops that may have - Bicycle Works etc.
Then I remembered that @jss has the same model (bough s/h not from LB!)
So I put Dutch guy in touch with him (with permission) and apparently all got sorted.
Models was this FWD one
https://www.performercycles.com/bike-detail/19Front wheel drive so hills and rough paths probably shredded tyre faster than expected. Yes he should have had spares.
He had a colleague with car support I think.Big thanks to @jss for his help though.
Joe at shop also helped find neighbours pet cat that week too! Probably best shop results of the year.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Now this one is a bit weird....
I spent a happy hour or so yesterday replacing the inner tubes on my mountain bike. I had it up on the stand to do the job, and all seemed well as I tidied away the tools and popped a plaster over the part-healed cut on my left index finger which had opened up again as a result of wrestling the tyres back on to the rims.
As it was a nice evening, I decided to take it out for a decent shakedown run, and it was only then that I noticed that the handlebars were on the wrong way round! Somehow - and it still can't comprehend how - they had been rotated 180°, and the clamp bolts seemed to have been torqued back up. I hadn't touched them during the inner tube replacement, and I would certainly have noticed if they'd been the wrong way round the last time I rode it.
I am completely baffled as to how this could have happened. The bike lives in a brick garage on the side of the house, with an electrically operated roller door to the drive, and a door with a yale lock and bolt giving access to the house. We haven't been aware of any break-ins (although I should admit that the PIR sensor in the garage for the intruder alarm has been u/s for some time). But even if someone had managed to break in without leaving a trace, why would they have done nothing more than swivel the bars round?? Maybe we have a bicycle repair poltergeist on the premises!
It's all very puzzling...
Posted 4 weeks ago # -
Powerful meds, drugs, sleepwalking? Are other possibilities
Posted 4 weeks ago # -
I never know if this is the thread for success stories, but;
- First outing today for the new cheap-but-solid bicycle repair stand
- First time ever replacing a gear cable (youngest's Islabikes Beinn 20L), and sorting out tension for good indexing
- Added a kickstand also from the box o'junk
- Fitted a replacement grip to eldest's bike
- Fitted an Ursus Jumbo to Mrs. Bakky's steel tourer Swytch bike (Swytch front wheels are very heavy making parking with a regular kickstand rather awkward)
PLUS I randomly found the 3D-printed tube of Very Specific Fixings™ (T-slot bolts etc) for our roof bars that I had to cobble together a spare set of at the last minute for a recent holiday trip, after ransacking the garage. Of course, it was just rolling about on the floor amongst the rubble of a well stocked but poorly organised existence slash borderline kleptomania.
Posted 4 weeks ago # -
OH and I used the afore-recommended seam grip for eldest's pannier seal, but that's still pegged up pending full cure so not claiming victory quite yet.
Posted 4 weeks ago # -
On Thursday, successfully patched and reinflated an inner tube.
Got tire/wheel reassembled in record time. Discovered, within a minute of riding, that I'd forgotten to re-set the caliper brakes, but no matter, because the tire was bulging out of the rims on both sides. (New-ish tires)Today, deflated, re-sat tires within rims, and reinflated.
3 times.
still bulging.Saturday morning job? taking it all apart again.
Not. Happy.Posted 1 week ago #
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