Bike Multitools

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dvt <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Carl Fogel said:

now I can sleep at night.

Considering the time stamps that I see on your posts, I don't think you *do* sleep at night.

Dave dvt at psu dot edu

Dear Dave,

Gentlemen do not read each other's time stamps. We will therefore disband PSU.

Henry L. Stimson, 11:42pm

Disband Penn State..??? Blasphemos!!!

Besides, Joe Pa beat you to it.

WE WERE PENN STATE!

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A Muzi said:

Dane Jackson said:

But, it doesn't cover the one tool I needed to help a lady with a flat. She had bolt on axles and
a cut in her tube that was too large to patch. Does anyone know of a light 15mm tool I could
carry for situations like this? I would probably pick up one for my mother also (she has an old
Raleigh three speed).

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Yes, in my heart of hearts I do lust after the old peanut butter spreader. However, I don't think it
quite qualifies as 'light'. I was thinking about just carrying a cone wrench, though I'm not sure
how efficacious that would be.

Something like this might be closer to what I was looking for:

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pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:42:57 GMT, Dane Jackson <[email hidden]>

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Something like this might be closer to what I was looking for:
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I'd be concerned with durability. Also, it hasn't got a 15mm open-end wrench.

It is a cool looking tool, and somewhat versatile too.
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Rick Onanian

Reminds me of the time there were two fine looking young ladies on the side of the road trying to
fix a flat, (one looked like Pamela Anderson) . The bike was flipped upside down and the chain was
all tangled up. They had grease all over their hands and face. Like a good Samaritan cyclist I
stopped and asked them if they needed help. Their reply: "Yea, got a cell phone?" Glad I left my
cell phone home that day and thank God for the Ritchey Multitool...had to give the other gal
something to play with while "Pamela" and I fixed the flat. -tom

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Dane Jackson said:

But, it doesn't cover the one tool I needed to help a lady with a flat. She had bolt on axles
and a cut in her tube that was too large to

patch.

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Does anyone know of a light 15mm tool I could carry for situations like this? I would probably
pick up one for my mother also (she has an old Raleigh three speed).

Tom Nakashima said:

Reminds me of the time there were two fine looking young ladies on the side of the road trying to
fix a flat, (one looked like Pamela Anderson) . The bike was flipped upside down and the chain was
all tangled up. They had grease all over their hands and face. Like a good Samaritan cyclist I
stopped and asked them if they needed help. Their reply: "Yea, got a cell phone?" Glad I left my
cell phone home that day and thank God for the Ritchey Multitool...had to give the other gal
something to play with while "Pamela" and I fixed the flat.

did the grease get all over your tool?

pk

Hey now, grease has multi uses besides just lubrication. -tom

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did the grease get all over your tool?

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Tom Nakashima said:

Reminds me of the time there were two fine looking young ladies on the side of the road trying
to fix a flat, (one looked like Pamela Anderson) . The bike was flipped upside down and the
chain was all tangled up. They had grease all over their hands and face. Like a good Samaritan
cyclist I stopped and asked them if they needed help. Their reply: "Yea, got a cell phone?" Glad
I left my cell phone home that day and thank God for the Ritchey Multitool...had to give the
other gal something to play with while "Pamela" and I fixed the flat.

Tom Nakashima said:

Reminds me of the time there were two fine looking young ladies on the side of the road trying to
fix a flat, (one looked like Pamela Anderson) . The bike was flipped upside down and the chain was
all tangled up. They had grease all over their hands and face. Like a good Samaritan cyclist I
stopped and asked them if they needed help. Their reply: "Yea, got a cell phone?" Glad I left my
cell phone home that day and thank God for the Ritchey Multitool...had to give the other gal
something to play with while "Pamela" and I fixed the flat.

Sounds like one of those Penthouse letters* to me.

Bill "they're all true, you know" S.

*Actually, one of 'em would have had to have been** an amputee I guess 🙂

** How's that for verb tense?!?

S o r n i said:

*Actually, one of 'em would have had to have been** an amputee I guess 🙂 ** How's that for
verb tense?!?

It's very tense indeed. It makes me tense just thinking about unraveling it.

I've used that same tense in speech before, but I've never tried to understand somebody who used it.
Now I can see that I ought to never have had*** said it...

*** That tense wasn't as bad.
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Rick Onanian

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I have a topeak Alien : but boy its heavy. Theres also a problem : the Hex Keys don't have a "L"
shape end - they are useless to attack any allen bolts which are even slightly obscured. Does
anyone know of a multitool which has this feature?

There are only about 4 sizes of allen keys used on my bike, so I just carry the 4 allen keys in
my pouch.

You're a Kangaroo?

Multi-tools suck. All of them. Always. Except pipe wrenches and crescent wrenches when you really
need them. On a bike you are always better off with individual tools, IMHO.

That said, I do like dog-bone wrenches. I have to check to say if it goes up to 15mm but I think it
will. Actually I don't know if they are metric or standard but there are so many holes that I always
find a fit no matter what I'm working on.

They also always look cast and so I would not trust them to not let you down in the field. But then
again if you maintain your bike then you probably already know that it has no siezed fasteners.

There's a ten dollar blister-pak by BELL which contains a dogbone wrench, a third-hand tool for
adjusting brakes, two useable tire levers, and a heavy spoke wrench.

Doug

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I have a topeak Alien : but boy its heavy.

Theres also a problem : the Hex Keys don't have a "L" shape end - they are useless to attack any
allen bolts which are even slightly obscured.

Does anyone know of a multitool which has this feature?