Just added &quot;cheater bars&quot; to the wiki linked to below. <br><br>We use repair stands similar to these:<br><br><a href="http://images.jensonusa.com/large/tl/tl401g01blk_______alum.jpg">http://images.jensonusa.com/large/tl/tl401g01blk_______alum.jpg</a><br>
<br>and one of them died. We took one of the legs and made it into an &quot;atomic&quot; cheater bar, by cutting and filing the edges. It&#39;s a good 3 feet long, and maybe 2 inches in diameter. It&#39;s a WONDERFUL tool of last resort when other cheater bars won&#39;t do the job. Of course, it&#39;s for removing parts only. <br>
<br>One of my favorite teaching moments is when I get to show someone who thinks they&#39;re &quot;not strong enough to work on bikes&quot; that bike mechanics isn&#39;t so much a strength issue as it is a leverage issue. When the massive pedal wrench isn&#39;t long enough to provide the leverage to remove a stuck pair of pedals and a 16 inch tube does wonders, man. Talk about empowerment. <br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Jonathan Morrison <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jonathan@slcbikecollective.org">jonathan@slcbikecollective.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At heart I am a tool junkie, so one of the small highlights at<br>
Mountain States Bike Bike was seeing some of their specialty tools...<br>
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<a href="http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tools#Specialty_Tools" target="_blank">http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tools#Specialty_Tools</a><br>
<br>
What does your shop use that is special?<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Jonathan Morrison<br>
Executive Director<br>
Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective<br>
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