Re: What do you carry in your toolkit?

On May 30, 5:53 pm, Ecnerwal <LawrenceSM...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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 Andre Jute <fiult...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What do you carry, and why?

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One thing I have never been able to understand is the "perceived need"
many folks have for tire levers - a stock item in many toolkits. They
will probably be leaving mine, as I can't remember how it was all fit in
there before, and they are superfluous, IME. While I have not
experienced every tire/rim in the world by a long shot, I have never,
ever, needed levers to get a bicycle tire on or off, from whatever was
on my 5 speed (20 or 24?) though 27 inch street and 26 inch MTB tires.
I've thought levers might be handy with lawn tractor tires (small rim
diameter, large/hefty tire cross section), but managed fine without -
bike tires (large rim diameter, small tire cross section) are as easy as
pie by hand, by comparison.

Oley Maloney, I wouldn't even try getting beaded tyres on and off with
my hands. A writer is a manual labourer who earns his living with his
hands on his keyboard. I can't afford as much as a fingernail torn
into the quick. Anyway, those belted Marathon Plus and Satellite Elite
Hardcase are a killer to get on even with tyre levers working at waist
height on a table, never mind scrabbling around on your knees in the
scrub beside a road. I wish someone would bring back the VAR 425 which
would be brilliant for getting these toughies on and off the rim even
under adverse circumstances. Of course, on the other hand, you pay
through the nose for these belted tyres precisely so that you never
have to take them off again...

Andre Jute
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/BICYCLE%20HUMOUR.html





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