Cone Wrenches vs Slim Wrenches
04-06-22 | 08:00 AM
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Bikes: '96 Litespeed Catalyst, '05 Litespeed Firenze, '06 Litespeed Tuscany, '20 Surly Midnight Special, All are 3x10. It is hilly around here!
I'm not sure our positions are mutually exclusive. Running a bike shop? Sure, you'll probably want a full set of cone wrenches. And other specialized tools, like perhaps a bottom bracket shell facing tool, which most casual cyclists won't need to maintain their bike(s). From the tone of the O.P., my assumption is that he's the latter use case.
Park's SCW-XX single size cone wrenches are well made, strong, comfortable to use and fairly low cost. They are less than $10 each even these days and a lot less when I was buying most of mine years ago. I would avoid the double end cone wrenches as they are quite uncomfortable to use. I was given a pair of beautiful Campagnolo double end cone wrenches (13/14 and 15/16) years ago but never use them as they are both too short and too hard on the hands.
