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Old 01-22-12 | 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by TheOutdoorsman
Thanks, i guess just tools to fix common problems that would come up on older road and mounatin bikes

It still depends on what components are on your bikes. There is no one pat list. For example just the rear wheel gearing can be either a freewheel or freehub. The freewheel is a whole replaceable part with sprockets and one way drive that screws onto the wheel. The freehub system leaves the ratcheting freewheeling device on the hub but you change out the sprocket cluster when worn. Each requires a different type of tool to change them. But it gets better.... If you are working on a bike that uses a freeWHEEL setup there's at least 4 different freewheel specialty tools you need depending on what brand of freewheel is involved.

It goes on like this for the rest of all the parts mentioned. YOU MUST GO TO THE PARK WEBSITE AND FIND WHAT YOUR BIKES HAVE ON THEM AND BUY THE TOOLS THAT ARE MENTIONED ! ! ! ! We can't help you on this front other than to say "buy one of everything".

A big part of this will be determining from inspecting YOUR bike(s) and comparing them to the various identification pictures to find out what YOUR bikes are using for wheelhubs, headsets and bottom brackets.

The only thing I can say for sure is that it's worth buying their thin 15mm pedal wrench since that is a universal size for mountain and road bike pedals... mostly
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