Re: [CR] Useful bike tools

(Example: Framebuilding:Restoration)

Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:49:46 -0800
From: "verktyg" <verktyg@aol.com>
To: Tom Sanders <tom@orderandchaos.com>, <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR] Useful bike tools


A little late to the party but...

I have a lot of "favorite" bike tools I've gathered over the past 35+ years: Campy dropout tools, Campy 5mm x 8mm T-wrenches, my adjustable seat tube reamer that I bought at a surplus store for $5 back in 1975, third hands, cable cutters and so on.

The tool that I "appreciate" the most though is the VAR #30 BB fixed cup tool (Campy, Hozan too). I don't use it very often these days but back when we were doing 2-3 BB overhauls a day at the shop where I worked it was a life saver.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/var/pages/var0016.html

I just used it twice in the past two weeks.

Chas. Colerich
Oakland, CA USA