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Join Date: May 2018
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 578
Bikes: 1951 Sun Wasp, 1953 Armstrong Consort, 1975 Raleigh Competition, 1980 Apollo Gran Sport, 1988 Schwinn Voyageur, Mystery MTB
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I think I ordered my Bikesmith cotter press from Mark in 2017, when I got my '50 Raleigh Superbe - it has a more rounded, refined looking shape, and fits everything I've needed it to fit so far. I hadn't worked on cottered cranks before, and the tool was of immense help. I was initially hesitant, thinking that I wouldn't use it so much after the Raleigh was back in shape, and of course I've used it a whole bunch of times since and I wouldn't mess around with cottered cranks without it. '70s Peugeot cottered crank removal x2, servicing someone else's old battered three-speed x3, installing Williams crank on my Sun Wasp, installing Williams crank on my '64 Triumph...