Today I did something to my bike thread...

Planet X · 27-09-2013 5:58pm

.....changed a tube on my daughters Halfords "Classic Real Raleigh" or something.
About an hour ffs!!!.Sturmey Archer 3 speed, chain all encased in a chain guard "suit of Armour" "impossible to get" at system.

Couldn't release the wheel, actually did in the end to squeeze a tube in.
Nightmare.

Something I've been dreading since the day we bought it about 3 years ago.

Seweryn · 28-09-2013 4:06pm

Some bits got cleaned and put onto the frame. One step at a time

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Can't wait to get the wheels repaired and put them on.

slap/dash · 28-09-2013 6:01pm

Seweryn wrote: »

Some bits got cleaned and put onto the frame. One step at a time .

Can't wait to get the wheels repaired and put them on.

jesus thats a nice bike, im here if you ever get tired of it

rollingscone · 01-10-2013 4:05pm

Did a full service (well almost I'm still afraid to touch the wheels after my last disaster) of the Commu-tourer she was even shiny and clean for about 3 minutes before I went outside.

I felt the Marathon on the front stole away some of her elegance so I couldn't resist spicing her up a bit with a new saddle and bartape just to remind the Commu-tourer that she may not be a roadbike but she still has a place in my heart.

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Seweryn · 05-10-2013 9:03pm

Seweryn wrote: »

Some bits got cleaned and put onto the frame. One step at a time .

And more bits on the bike at my next go (we are nearly there

):

Final approval by the house PR Manager before the test ride:

On the road:

At the next phase - the stem needs to be changed to a different size, handle bar to be wrapped with tape and a new cassette is badly needed (or possibly a complete rear wheel).

Hmmzis · 05-10-2013 9:38pm

Some new bits went onto the bike today:

105 Shifters
105 Chainset (53/39)
105 Chain
105 Rear derailer
Tiagra Cassette (11-25)
New brake and gear cables
New pedals
New saddle with a cut-out (hopefully will help solve the numbness I tend to get on longer spins)

OldBean · 05-10-2013 11:24pm

Seweryn wrote: »

Final approval by the house PR Manager before the test ride:

There's a postie in Dublin 7 with the exact same frame as you. I keep on giving him a funny look when I see it cycling past. Lovely job.

denbatt · 22-10-2013 1:55pm

Sram garmin front mount arrived this morning,

€21 including post on ebay, wish i had a black garmin now! :rolleyes:

Scrappy600 · 22-10-2013 3:42pm

Put it up for sale with no plans to replace it. ;-(

AaronB · 22-10-2013 3:53pm

denbatt wrote: »

Sram garmin front mount arrived this morning, €21 including post on ebay, wish i had a black garmin now! :rolleyes:

I like the sticker Toecutter

Captain Havoc · 09-11-2013 11:52pm

Finished it this evening, new tiagra groupset.

Scrappy600 · 14-11-2013 5:36pm

Stripped the enduro bike for a good end of season clean and found 14 extremely seized linkage bearings. Bugger. I may have a small lack of mechanical sympathy combined with specialized using pound shop bearings with no grease.

NeedMoreGears · 15-11-2013 9:56am

Changed the chain and replaced the 23mm rubinios with 28mm zaffiros ; much more comfortable on the commute even at the same tyre pressure.

quozl · 15-11-2013 10:15am

NeedMoreGears wrote: »

Changed the chain and replaced the 23mm rubinios with 28mm zaffiros ; much more comfortable on the commute even at the same tyre pressure.

Run them at a lower pressure, unless your Rubinios were really under-inflated. It'll be even more comfortable

route66 · 16-11-2013 10:26pm

Replaced Chain & brake pads. And gave it a wash!

Scrappy600 · 19-11-2013 12:49pm

Full bearing kit into the enduro bike. Surprisingly easier than I thought given the trouble I had doing them on the dh bike!

Scrappy600 · 23-12-2013 4:31pm

Bought it a garmin edge 200 for a serious bargain. Now just have to get off my ass and get some mileage on it!

couerdelion · 28-12-2013 12:23am

Was out and thought my back caliper wasn't working properly - it seemed to be binding. Got off and checked and realised that it wasn't returning properly after being applied. No idea if I could have fixed it so ordered a new pair of black SRAM Apex online and took the white set off my race bike and transferred them onto the winter bike. Neither bike was clean which meant there was dirt all over the kitchen floor - I tidied up but I don't have the same high standards as my wife so she had to redo it. (Years of not doing things right still haven't led to her just doing things without me having to screw them up first...)

I believe that's the right thing to do. I've decided to go from white bar tape to black bar tape and matching brake calipers are important. Having a multibike family means that the winter bike gets the hand me downs.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 28-12-2013 10:07pm

I fitted carbon bottle cages to my F5, and a chain catcher and fitted 3T Ergonova bars and a Prologo Zero saddle to my winter bike.

Planet X · 29-12-2013 7:05pm

Inspector Coptoor · 30-12-2013 1:38am

Today I (with a lot of help) got my old pedals off and my shimano spd pedals on.
Did about 20km then with my new mtb shoes and the pedals and had no falls.
I noticed a significant difference with the new shoes

Scrappy600 · 04-01-2014 5:07pm

New tyres. Yellowy goodness!

Seweryn · 04-01-2014 5:23pm

Scrappy600 wrote: »

Yellowy goodness!

Yellow Goodness continuoes. My old bar tape had about 1500 hours of riding on it already, so decided to replace it with a new one:

In action:

Zyzz · 04-01-2014 5:44pm

You are looking awfully skinny in that last picture ^^ :pac:

Lumen · 04-01-2014 5:48pm

Yellow jersey is pushing it, even in the off season. :pac:

Zyzz · 04-01-2014 6:08pm

Seweryn · 04-01-2014 6:15pm

Zyzz wrote: »

You are looking awfully skinny in that last picture ^^ :pac:

A bit too skinny. Looks like my internal organs were screaming for a dinner :pac:.

Lumen wrote: »

Yellow jersey is pushing it, even in the off season. :pac:

That's only arm warmers

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Seweryn · 04-01-2014 6:18pm

Zyzz wrote: »

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Jeez, that's some painting restoration skills :pac:.

letape · 04-01-2014 7:16pm

Seweryn wrote: »

Yellow Goodness continuoes. My old bar tape had about 1500 hours of riding on it already, so decided to replace it with a new one:

In action:

They're very long cables in the first picture!

Seweryn · 04-01-2014 7:41pm

letape wrote: »

They're very long cables in the first picture!

They got "longer", as I replaced the handlebards with 20mm narrower at the same time (same model bars).

OldBean · 05-01-2014 8:36pm

After exactly 24 hours travelling and hoping all the ground staff in Baltimore, Boston and Dublin airports were going to treat my carefully packed box nicely, I unwrapped this first thing...

Went for a nap, got back up and fought the jetlag by starting on it...

Hitting the 'Order' button on Wiggle as soon as my head is clear to get the rest of the parts before the week is out.

Then I fitted a new VO saddle on herself's bike...

Not a bad days work.

Amprodude · 06-01-2014 12:04am

New continental gatorskin tyres fitted and fitted new brake inserts onto my tank ( i mean my training bike) :-). Should do me for a while.

denbatt · 06-01-2014 6:14am

Got a cadence sensor off santa, finally got it set up and working, unfortunately can only fit with the arm in the up position though :-(,

lennymc · 06-01-2014 12:16pm

I found 19 gears down the back of the couch so put them on my ss cx bike for the nationals next week.

RobFowl · 06-01-2014 1:03pm

lennymc wrote: »

I found 19 gears down the back of the couch so put them on my ss cx bike for the nationals next week.

Bet you'll still only use 1

Scrappy600 · 18-01-2014 9:06pm

Joined the yellowy goodness bar tape club too!

OldBean · 19-01-2014 12:38am

From this...

To this...

Tomorrow, dropping the saddle, bar tape, front rack and a ride. Ahem.

krissovo · 22-01-2014 3:36pm

I took a cheap ebay frame:

and built it up into this :-)

Zyzz · 22-01-2014 3:50pm

Lovely job! Those shifters look a little off though, or my eyesight is letting me down! :pac:

krissovo · 22-01-2014 3:58pm

You are right, I just come back from a 30k test run and one must have been very slightly loose. A few other small adjustments and I have found my steed for the ROK.

I love it, 9.4kg fully loaded and makes a very smooth ride.

OldBean · 22-01-2014 4:50pm

Beaut!

denbatt · 27-01-2014 4:06pm

Finally after a pretty crappy month of commuting to work, I cleaned up the bike and fitted Crud roadracer mk2's, I had to cut the wider section behind the crank as their was just no way it would line up otherwise(anyone else have that problem?) Anyway Hopefully these will make the ol commute a little more comfortable and keep the bike a little cleaner;)

Daroxtar · 27-01-2014 8:06pm

I did my first proper bit of bike maintenance today. The chain was dropping a little when freewheeling so rather than getting it tangled in the spokes/ ripping the derailleur off and all that merriment I decided to take the rear hub apart, get the cassette off and lube up the freewheel.
All went well after the initial "Oh sh!te there's ballbearings everywhere". Probably should have looked at Youtube before I started:rolleyes:
Took my time, cleaned everything, greased it up, put it back together and now it's spinning like new.
I made my own chain whip tool too, no point doing DIY if you can't get a bit Maguyver with it

Buzwaldo · 27-01-2014 8:14pm

denbatt wrote: »

Finally after a pretty crappy month of commuting to work, I cleaned up the bike and fitted Crud roadracer mk2's, I had to cut the wider section behind the crank as their was just no way it would line up otherwise(anyone else have that problem?) Anyway Hopefully these will make the ol commute a little more comfortable and keep the bike a little cleaner;)

Have those on my bike. Great for keeping a large percentage of gunk off mechs as well as oneself. Had to cut a bit off rear guard as well - think they are designed like that as may need longer to fit some bikes properly.

Scrappy600 · 29-01-2014 11:03am

SRAM garmin mount finally arrived from the states this morning

Diggabot · 01-02-2014 5:59pm

Today I fitted a new Prologo Nago Evo Pro T2.0 saddle and a 3T Dorico LTD carbon seat post. I also put on a SRAM out front holder for my Garmin.... it got a scrub too

Cee-Jay-Cee · 01-02-2014 6:51pm

Fitted the following to my F5

Prologo Kappa Evo PAS with Italian flag clip
Deda Zero1 stem,
Ritchey WCS Stream bars
Prologo double touch tape
SRAM mount for the Bryton 20 I bought myself for Christmas.

Diggabot · 11-02-2014 4:47pm

3T stem, 3T carbon top cap and carbon spacers fitted

denbatt · 13-02-2014 6:45pm

Fitted an Ultegra 6800 36/52 mid compact today. Yum yum

OldBean · 21-02-2014 7:37pm

Some SKS mudguards and some other finishing bits came along for my 'good' bike today. After getting a wet arse, soggy feet and road crap on my chainset on a recent stormy spin, I was really looking forward to getting a set of full mudguards on it. Went straight at it, but lacked some confidence, fiddled around until the wheels ran smoothly, took a step back and... It looked horrible. Gah!

They came right off and they're waiting beside my 'town' bike - Job for Monday evening. Should have saved up and went for these.

Today I did something to my bike thread...

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