[Closed] The hook-shaped bit on tyre-levers [and other misuse of tools]

HT2 preload tool = 20p piece.
An old straight handlebar makes a great drift for knocking out headset cups!

old chain with a thin screwdriver jammed through = chainwhip
steel ruler = chainring bolt tool
random old socket = bearing drift for hope hubs

I got this one from Samantha Cameron. That tool on your swiss army knife, the one to remove stones from horses hooves, can also be used to remove food from the mouths of the poor 🙂

Good reminder - the file tool on a swiss army knife = (very) old astra key 😉

A 1.5 inch headset bearing race works as a seal setting tool on Hope Hubs. The one between the body and the freehub.

Stillsons / Monkey Wrench to remove & install external BB's

A six "D-Cell" Maglite torch makes an ideal weapon for bludgeoning "intruders" to death if you don't have a set of Bombers handy.

I got this one from Samantha Cameron. That tool on your swiss army knife, the one to remove stones from horses hooves, can also be used to remove food from the mouths of the poor

I'd have thought a lady like her would have known it's not a hoof pick (that's what that tool is called) in primary function but actually a parcel hook for carrying string wrapped parcels. Far more esoteric! 😉

Old grip lock rings make great handlebar saw guides, similarly old stem = steerer cut guide.

I also use the hook on tyre levers to deflate tubes that have a Schrader valve (yeah yeah I'm still using tubes).

9 speed quick-link clipped together = presta valve core remover.

Good reminder - the file tool on a swiss army knife = (very) old astra key

Any key from an old Merc T1 = any old astra key. I drove from Scotland to Bristol in my old 1988 astra and it was only when I got to bristol that i realised I'd left my car keys at home and taken the works van keys instead.

steve_b77 - Member

Stillsons / Monkey Wrench to remove & install external BB's

actually a parcel hook

Ah, that explains it. I did wonder why they called that model the 'equestrian' 🙂

A spoke key is also a presta valve core remover.

I faffed around with needle-nosed pliers for years before I discovered this.

Can't find your tyre levers?

Go old skool and use spoon handles.

Camping.
Who needs Sporks when you have your Pedros tyre levers.

Tyre levers often fit in the HT2 end caps too.

A spoke key is also a presta valve core remover.

I faffed around with needle-nosed pliers for years before I discovered this.

THANK YOU!

😀

^^^ looks like we're getting somewhere. Also

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Not quite the same thing, but... classic

http://road.cc/content/news/183146-cyclists-save-collapsed-mans-life-help-tyre-lever

Just remember to clean the oil and dogshit off your tyre levers before shoving them into a mate's windpipe.

Brompton seatposts are perfect for moving heavy equipment:

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This is my current HT2 preload tool

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I love those old kitchen mixers like bencooper's got, remind me of my grandma.

Spoons make good substitutes for braces when you run out of tubes building frames.

It's now a kitchen mixer with digital readouts 😀

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That would probably confuse my gran, she should stick with the manual version.

To save the expense of renewing your condom annually, instead of using patches try a teaspoon of Stans to prevent those embarrassing leaks.

No spoke key at home, in an emergency you can use a metal fork.

Wish Id known about the spoke key/presta valve thing, would have saved me a long walk of a mountain near Annecy - and having to ultimately make the "call of shame"... that and not using a leyzene pump.

I used the spoke key/valve thing on a mate's bike midride, he responded like I'd just turned water into wine 😆

actually a parcel hook

Ooh, i know the answer to this.

Back in the mid 90s, I received a Swiss Army Knife as a leaving present from work. On the back of it was this mysterious, intriguing hook tool.

I spent [i]years[/i] wondering what it was really for. 'Carrying hay bales' crossed my mind, or maybe some sort of device for twisting fence wire or plying twine or some such. It's a very distinctive shape though, whatever could it be? Something to do with horses' hooves, or tying boy scouts together? I asked around, got plenty of suggestions but no definitive answer.

Then the Web happened. I found that Victorinox had a web site which contained a guide to all of the functions on their SAKs. Finally, I could get a canonical answer as to exactly what the damn thing was for; something that'd puzzled me, albeit mildly and very occasionally, for years.

I fired up the site. I wondered, will it even be listed, it's probably long discontinued by now. But joy of joys, I located it. I was palpably (if somewhat irrationally) excited by this point. Selected my knife, clicked on the tool in question and discovered, straight from the horse's mouth, that it's actually a "general purpose hook."

that it's actually a "general purpose hook."

Have you ever caught a General with it? Or a porpoise?

If you have an Alfine then it's easy to make a little tool to enable quick wheel changes without getting your hands greasy. It can live in your bike toolkit.

If you cut an old spoke to 101mm length, it will fit in the hole on the rotating gear selector next to the cable clamp, and you can use it to lever it round instead of using your fingers. The 101mm length is for a measurement guide for when you replace a cable (it's the amount of inner required free).

You could just as easily use a small allen key, abt 2mm, but you'll probably look in your tool kit one day and think "what's this doing here?" and put it back with the main tools. And I know that because... 🙂

lost your chain whip?

old t-shirt pulled tight around the cassette works just fine 🙂

One of the legs from a Park workstand, when attached to locking grips makes a brilliant lever for tacking seized bottom brackets