Originally Posted by
Sheldon Brown
When I was a kid, I used to use a hammer and an old screwdriver (I had a screwdriver that had metal running all the way through the handle.) Worked fine, but did tend to gunge up the notch in the lockring a bit.
Sheldon "Ve Haff Ways..." Brown
Nice
Peter White Cycles has the Dura-Ace chainwhip/lockring tool for $36 (couple bucks cheaper than other places online I've seen it) - has the spring on the chain rather than magnet/nothing, which I believe would help...
http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/fixed.asp (near the bottom of the page)
Re: lockring quality, I've got the stock lockring from IRO (Formula IIRC) - is it a good plan(tm) to swap it out for a Dura-Ace quality one? I'm new to fixed riding, so I'm not likely to be thrashing about just yet.