Its got to the stage where bikes come before food for me. Scary…

… but fun!

true dat

Fettling is definitely an addiction.
I'll fettle anyones bike, me!! Iam mad me!!

MMmmmmm Fettling

it's worse than smack. I started fettling my own bikes. then it was my mates bikes. now I'm a cytech mechanic and a bikeability instructor. and what do I do on my day off? GO FOR A BIKE RIDE. Where will it end?

Anyone have a cure?….please

Wouldn't mind enrolling on a cytech course myself – bit costly though eh if you don't work in a bike shop?! 🙁

worth doing IMO

Think I'll try going cold turkey as a new years resolution

You'll be sniffing inner tubes by 12th night 😉

Just had to admit to my wife there's a bike in the cupboard under the stairs – I built it 18 months ago. Haven't ridden it yet. was scared she'd shout at me. she started laughing then burst into tears. I am in lots of trouble. I think the answer is yes. Also has guilt 🙂

that's going to cost you a new kitchen

I was up till 1am bike building, now i am in work I have the shakes!

you could take in a wheel and true it in tea breaks….

Absofeckinlutely……I've built 4 in the last 3 weeks and was sitting in my garage last night thinking……what to build next?

made the mistake of telling my GF how much my main bike at the time cost…..that basic schoolboy error cost me a 1 carat diamond 😯

Yep, new winter road bike on the cards next!

yes alex i thought i had cured mine til you put your monkey up for sale lol shame im broke 🙁

hate it nowadays,used to love it…pretend i dont know how to fix things etc on rides wi groups or hols so they do it for me lol

Hehe! Yeah, I'm sad to sell the monkey but needs must. Being an addicted fettler while being unemployed is not a good route to fortune.

if only i hadnt got wed last week i would have loved it mate

Dickyboy – Member
Anyone have a cure?….please

Make it your job, takes the fun out of it pretty fast. I still like building nice stuff though – but if it's just lots of mid-range bikes it gets old pretty quickly.

It only gets worse.

I took appart a perfectly functioning road bike, then hacksawed and filed off all the cable guides appart from the brake guides on the top tube. and took off the mech hanger last night. It was oddly theraputic getting down to the brass underneath the braze on and working arround the tube untill it was perfectly smooth.

I have to admit to enjoying repairing old heaps as well as building the high-end stuff, but you're right, the cheapy BSOs are just unpleasant to work on.

It's got to the point I had to buy the missus an old Rockhopper off eBay, and strip it completely down, clean, relube and fettled to perfection. She'll probably never ride it. But it was very shiney clean, even polished and waxed the frame!

I've also spent lunchtime pricing up some new Campag bits for a new shiney road frame I've taken a shine to.

I've justified it by not going out drinking as much these days!

oh dear ive just bought alexonabike's karate monkey frameset ;-( bugger lol