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Originally Posted by noglider (Post 23142660)

Lots of really good ideas here, especially from [MENTION=21724]cyccommute[/MENTION]. What's a film canister? Just kidding. Did you find the lockrings came off many various freewheel brands? I saw it only on the SunTour freewheels. Damn pain in the butt.

I have a treasure chest filled with film canisters buried on a desert island. No, I won’t share the map:rolleyes:

The freewheels I had the problem with were Suntour. I learned to hate Suntour freewheels for various reasons, of which that was one. I went through so many freewheel removers with those damned freewheels as well as getting really good at destructive removal of them.

On my touring bike I carry a couple of FiberFix spokes, then I don't need a tool to remove the rear cluster with.

I keep my bikes up pretty good, I haven't had a breakdown for a very long time, maybe 25 years ago. I wasn't watching where I was going closely enough and hit a stick that was sticking out, my front wheel hit it and broke a spoke on a 36 spoke rim, the rim had just a slight wobble, I adjusted it back to like new and rode home. That was the first time and the last time I had to use a spoke tool while on the road.