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Bike Lane
Thanks for all the help. Looking online, I found the parts I need are quite reasonable indeed. Although I do not know how to true a wheel or fix a hub off-hand, these will be useful skills to learn for recurring repairs. Perfect time to educate myself. I should look at buying a toolkit for the job even though I was thinking of winging it with my fathers random selection of apparatuses and mechanisms. Thanks again.
Get just the bike specific tools that you will need. Cone wrenches, a freewheel puller, and the proper spoke wrench. As you get more experience, get more tools.
http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=48
http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=105