aka Tom Reingold
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Posts: 40,509
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
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Yes, it usually makes it easier.
I recently retired my only bike with cottered cranks. To get one of the cotter pins out, I had to drill a hole through the length of the cotter pin. Thereafter, I still had to bang like hell and recall all sorts of vocabulary. I emerged from the basement dirty and sweaty and made passionate love to my wife.