I know that many of our readers do their own bicycle maintenance and repair, and I am sure a few of you have collected tools over the years.
If you feel like sharing, I would love it if you could email me photos of the really odd, obscure tools in your collections. If you are interested, try to keep the images under 2MB, provide a brief description and any related stories. You will receive FULL credit for your submissions!
Here are a couple of mine; from top to bottom they are a Campagnolo pedal dust cap and axle spanner, a Park Tool sidepull brake spring “tweaker”, and the legendary Maillard “Helicomatic” freewheel lockring remover/spoke wrench/bottle opener.
If the above email link doesn’t work, send pics to “ghostrider(at)bikecommuters(dot)com”.
I look forward to receiving your photos and stories!
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1 gwadzilla // Jul 10, 2007 at 12:28 pm
the other day I saw an not so vintage tool that is cool
the grease gun
from when bottom brackets and hubs had a hole for injecting fresh grease
forcing bad grease and dirt out the other side
it seemed like a good idea at the time
2 Ghost Rider // Jul 10, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Wasn’t that the legendary WTB “Grease Guard”? If I recall, it was a joint venture between Wilderness Trail Bikes and SunTour. It DID seem like a good idea, but now we’ve got “sealed” (disposable) BBs…hardly an improvement!
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