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[bonj2]

ok well i'm going to have a walk to lidl tomorrow so there'd better be one there.

 

[Dave5N]

do poundland?

Dunno. DOubt it.

Lidl do a twenty quid cycletool set in a small case. Great value. I keep it in the car so I always have bike tools to hand. The quality isn't up to Park STandards but I replace them as needed by better ones.

ABB tool like the one you need is in the set.

 

[spandex]

ok well i'm going to have a walk to lidl tomorrow so there'd better be one there.

If you can not get one I have one that I can send to you? just PM me

Buy the way are you selling your lock ring tool?

 

[bonj2]

If you can not get one I have one that I can send to you? just PM me

Buy the way are you selling your lock ring tool?

ah nice one cheers, I might take you up on that if i can't get one in lidl.

I do not possess a lock ring tool, and if I did i wouldn't be selling it, because i am in fact buying a lock ring tool.

 

[mickle]

Spandex, private word?













The Hozan tool pictured isn't his, the image was posted as an example.









Carry on.

 

[Landslide]

I do not possess a lock ring tool, and if I did i wouldn't be selling it, because i am in fact buying a lock ring tool.

If you're not fussed about saving the current BB, and you're planning on putting a cartridge BB in, then save your pennies and bodge it out. In my experience (including 3 years working in a LBS) there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" lockring spanner, and as such you may as well just attack it with a hammer, chisel and mole grips.

 

[bonj2]

If you're not fussed about saving the current BB, and you're planning on putting a cartridge BB in, then save your pennies and bodge it out. In my experience (including 3 years working in a LBS) there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" lockring spanner, and as such you may as well just attack it with a hammer, chisel and mole grips.

hmmm... yeah, point taken. I do want one though to fit a sprocket lock ring hence why i'm buying one.

 

[bonj2]

If you can not get one I have one that I can send to you? just PM me

Buy the way are you selling your lock ring tool?

spandex they sell it at hubjub.co.uk

 

[Joe24]

hmmm... yeah, point taken. I do want one though to fit a sprocket lock ring hence why i'm buying one.

Just do what i do and hit it with a flat bladed screw driver and a hammer
Or have someone in the club near by who you can go and see to use theres

 

[kyuss]

Don't bother going to Lidl. The toolkit only comes round maybe twice a year and tends to sell out within a couple of days. That BB and lockring tool that comes with it is crap anyway (though the Shimano BB tool included is okay). The lockring tool in particular is too thick to allow enough purchase so I resorted to the rotafix + hammer and screwdriver method.

 

[bonj2]

ah, so dave's bullshitting then. thought so.
so can you do without this?

it sounds as though nobody really knows, so i'll have to just get the cranks off and the lockring and see.
park tool doesn't say anything about that strange lidl tool.

 

[Dave5N]

Don't bother going to Lidl. The toolkit only comes round maybe twice a year and tends to sell out within a couple of days. That BB and lockring tool that comes with it is crap anyway (though the Shimano BB tool included is okay). The lockring tool in particular is too thick to allow enough purchase so I resorted to the rotafix + hammer and screwdriver method.

WOrked for me. Mind you my old multispanner is better (came with a bike well before I was born)

Haven't yet needed to use the Shimano BB tool as the lidl stuff is emergency in the car stuff only, and that emergency hasn't presented yet.

 

[mickle]

it sounds as though nobody really knows.......

Yup. No one knows how to remove a standard BB. When you find out can you tell us please.

 

[mickle]

Sorry, but seriously, if you have no intention of re-using the BB just batter it off, cold chisel and lump hammer, mole grips, adjustable pin tool, lock-ring spanner. Whatever. They'll all do it. It's a three minute job so if you'll just please stop fannying about and get it done we can move on to another topic. Thanks.

 

[Dave5N]

You've got so much more caring since that counselling thread. The change in your sig. really does reflect a new you.


Bless.