I am....... Cycle-Mechanic!
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Oh yes, and how can you claim such a thing I hear you say and quite right too! However, I base this claim on unarguable logic.
Here is my toolkit - bought three years ago from Woodrups in Leeds for £44. But not dissimilar to the ones you can now get from Lidl for £25 though whether mine is better quality I don't know.
Anyway, I have now successfully used every single tool in the kit!! i.e
Cotterless crank arm extractor
Shimano BB tool
Adjustable BB tool
Screwdriver
Spanner
Pedal spanner and open ended spanner
Chain tool
Adjustable spanner
Tyre levers
Chain whip
Allen key set
Headset spanner
Cone spanners
Spoke nipple tool
Socket adaptor
8mm crank arm allen key
Cassette sprocket lockring
Puncture kit
Plus Campag cassette tool and Suntour Freewheel tool and other tools not shown.
The last used was the adjustable BB tool which successfully extracted the bottom bracket of my mates Carlton Corsair allowing me to grease it up a bit. I've broken a cassette removal tool and chain tool though both were really my fault. But anyway, it illustrates two things - one is that "I am cycle mechanic" deny that if you dare 8) and secondly that these toolkits are serviceable (25000 miles of bike riding maintained, 1 MTB, 1 touring bike, 1 classic racer, two carbon road bikes plus another two classic road bikes renovated) and, given enough pottering with bikes of various ages, you can actually use everything in the kit - nothing is wasted.
Here is my toolkit - bought three years ago from Woodrups in Leeds for £44. But not dissimilar to the ones you can now get from Lidl for £25 though whether mine is better quality I don't know.
Anyway, I have now successfully used every single tool in the kit!! i.e
Cotterless crank arm extractor
Shimano BB tool
Adjustable BB tool
Screwdriver
Spanner
Pedal spanner and open ended spanner
Chain tool
Adjustable spanner
Tyre levers
Chain whip
Allen key set
Headset spanner
Cone spanners
Spoke nipple tool
Socket adaptor
8mm crank arm allen key
Cassette sprocket lockring
Puncture kit
Plus Campag cassette tool and Suntour Freewheel tool and other tools not shown.
The last used was the adjustable BB tool which successfully extracted the bottom bracket of my mates Carlton Corsair allowing me to grease it up a bit. I've broken a cassette removal tool and chain tool though both were really my fault. But anyway, it illustrates two things - one is that "I am cycle mechanic" deny that if you dare 8) and secondly that these toolkits are serviceable (25000 miles of bike riding maintained, 1 MTB, 1 touring bike, 1 classic racer, two carbon road bikes plus another two classic road bikes renovated) and, given enough pottering with bikes of various ages, you can actually use everything in the kit - nothing is wasted.
Faster than a tent.......
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You're the light wiping out my batteries; You're the cream in my airport coffee's.0
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On a bike though?Rolf F wrote:
Anyway, I have now successfully used every single tool in the kit!!
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"I have now successfully used every single tool in the kit!!"
Yeah I had a bike like that once! my isetta is a 300cc bike0 -
For the money, these are great. See it rebranded as many different things, and newer ones have external BB tools.0
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No i'm Spartacus Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
Agree with SS. Those kits are great for the money. If you manage to break something yo know you'll use it and can justify replacing it with something a bit better.0
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I still have my chain tool from the one I got in about 2006! Has split hundreds of chains. Actually, still got pretty much everything.0
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I can split a chain just by looking at it :roll:Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
dont trust him - he fixed my bike only last week
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
Cleat Eastwood wrote:dont trust him - he fixed my bike only last week
Lol - I didn't say I was any good did I?!itboffin wrote:No i'm Spartacus
I'm glad no one else noticed you saying that!Faster than a tent.......0 -
That bike looks fine to me .................................. :?Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
That's because it was you that fixed it.itboffin wrote:That bike looks fine to me .................................. :?0 -
I have the halfords version which is very similar and its saved me a lot of money , these kist might not be top end but for the average cyclist they will last long enough to get years of use out of them.FCN 3/5/90
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Actually, now I think about it, those wheels don't look entirely true. Do you think I should get one of those spoke tensiony devices?Faster than a tent.......0
