Life before allen keys

[Slioch]

I was hunting through my box of stuff and found these. Goodness knows when I last used them, but I'll keep them, "just in case".........

I can still remember (with a shudder) the weight of the toolkit I carried when I first started touring. It was of the "kitchen sink" variety.

 

[fossyant]

The funny lollypop ones usually snap. The other was standard issue Raleigh tool !

 

[ianrauk]

Think most long time cyclists have one of those flat spanners squirreled away somewhere

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I was hunting through my box of stuff and found these. Goodness knows when I last used them, but I'll keep them, "just in case".........

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I can still remember (with a shudder) the weight of the toolkit I carried when I first started touring. It was of the "kitchen sink" variety.

Yes I remember them, I've still got mine somewhere in the shed

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I was hunting through my box of stuff and found these. Goodness knows when I last used them, but I'll keep them, "just in case".........

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I can still remember (with a shudder) the weight of the toolkit I carried when I first started touring. It was of the "kitchen sink" variety.

I remember the big saddle bags we used to use, we carried enough tools to do a full strip and rebuild by the roadside, I also remember people carrying small stoves, kettles and stuff so the could brew up by the roadside, people had the kettles and mugs hanging off the bags on straps, great days.

 

[pawl]

I was hunting through my box of stuff and found these. Goodness knows when I last used them, but I'll keep them, "just in case".........

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I can still remember (with a shudder) the weight of the toolkit I carried when I first started touring. It was of the "kitchen sink" variety.

Blimey you must be as old as me I have exactly the same in my tool box

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I've got loads of the flat multi spanners still.

Like Fossyant I've snapped plenty of the lollipops. They seemed to be made out of some sort of soft resin, expertly camouflaged in silver to look like they're some form of metal.

 

[pawl]

I remember the big saddle bags we used to use, we carried enough tools to do a full strip and rebuild by the roadside, I also remember people carrying small stoves, kettles and stuff so the could brew up by the roadside, people had the kettles and mugs hanging off the bags on straps, great days.

Happy days with one proviso.I had the dumbbell spanner in the.pocket of my cycling shorts(remember those shorts)I stalled going up a steep hill.Not able to get my feet out of the toe clips in time.Fell of and landed on the spanner 🔧 Didn’t arf hurt

 

[Gunk]

I still use a ancient flat multi tool style bike spanner for adjusting wheel bearings, nothing else in my tool box will fit behind the lock nut.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Thank god we now have apps for that. No more carrying hollow zinc dumbbells around.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Happy days with one proviso.I had the dumbbell spanner in the.pocket of my cycling shorts(remember those shorts)I stalled going up a steep hill.Not able to get my feet out of the toe clips in time.Fell of and landed on the spanner 🔧 Didn’t arf hurt

I remember the ancient 10 speed I rode in those days, I had a lot of problems with the headset, quill type, we couldn't persuade it to stay tight and for a while I was doing the club rides with 2 large spanners in my saddle bag as often I'd need to tighten the headset at the afternoon tea stop. The LBS near where I worked managed to get it to stay tight, but a few weeks later I hit a dog and I was back to a headset that wouldn't stay tight, Then I had to have the LBS set it again

 

[MontyVeda]

I still use a ancient flat multi tool style bike spanner for adjusting wheel bearings, nothing else in my tool box will fit behind the lock nut.

That's the only reason I've still got one.

Trying to undo anything that was tight with them was a real pain in the arse palm

 

[ColinJ]

I also remember people carrying small stoves, kettles and stuff so the could brew up by the roadside, people had the kettles and mugs hanging off the bags on straps, great days.

@Blue Hills still does! I did a ride with him last year and he stopped halfway round to make coffee.

 

[mickle]

*shudders*

 

[flake99please]

Thank god we now have apps for that. No more carrying hollow zinc dumbbells around.

Every day is a school day. I was convinced that they were formed from polystyrene, and then given an Aluminium foil coating.