I'm looking for a lockring tool with preferably 4 equally spaced teeth. All I can seem to find are these:



which I am not particularly fond of. Does anyone know where I can get one?

the only other ones i've seen have two teeth on them. i've never seen one with more than that.

i'd settle for two teeth if you know where to get one. the one I pictured just isn't working for me.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/tools/fixedgear.html

There's one with three teeth and a lock ring wrench on there.

yeah, i've already looked at those. three teeth wont work because the lockrings on my bikes have four teeth, and the lockring wrench is out of my price range, but thanks for trying to help.

there are two types. The wrench version pictured above works fine. Many shops have a pliers version with grips at two points and is less likely to slip. Sheldon's got both. If you can afford them, the pliers are great.

I know the spanner sucks, but at least it's cheap as hell. Combined with rotafixa's method it's been keeping my rear wheel nice and secure.

yea, hozan makes a set ...very nice: hozan lockring pliers

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/tools/fixedgear.html

sheldon has the hozan lockring wrench which are modified for better grip for $28.
I'v had mine for 5 years and they're going strong.

The wrench looks awesome, I wish I could afford it.

I know my neighbor has a wrench with two teeth, but I can't recall who makes it.

err, the pliers look awesome.

damn this beer.

is it this one?

https://www.paulcomp.com/wrench.html

both my bike shop back home and my old room mate both had the two and four teeth tools, but I dont have the convenience of asking either of them. I know they exist! that's why this is frustrating.

whoa, $90?! I'll take the pliers first. That's not the tool I'm speaking of, by the way. It looks just like your basic lockring tool, with the exception of the teeth.

get the hozan pliers, its what we use at my shop and really the only worthwhile thing out there (aside from possibly the paul one - but who's got 90 bucks to drop on that?) spanners suck.

Do you have a lockring with 4 teeth? I've never seen one.
A lockring tool with 4 equally spaced teeth would not work on 2 and 6 tooth lockrings.

Yeah the only lock rings I have seen around here with 4 are cheapo lock rings. Do yourself a favor and get a decent one it will save some headache if you don't already have one.

i've never really had any problems with the basic hozan spanner. i typically throw a pipe over one end (when i'm loosening a ring), make sure that everything is lined up, and push down. the only real issue is with it falling off of the ring, but i find that if you angle the wheel slightly so that the wrench rests against the cog when you're torquing, that won't occur.

i've never deformed any lock ring notches with the single tooth design, except on the known-to-be-fragile dura ace bottom brackets. you really do need the bbt-7 tool to spread the forces over several notches.

milwaukee bicycle eco lockring. now you've seen one.

Here ya go
Cheap lock ring tool

The 3 prong park tool works on my surly lockring. Basically, 1 prong goes into the groove... the other 2 just rest on the outside of the ring. Actually, it has to be slipped on from the side as the 2 (not in groove) teeth wrap around the ring... impossible to slip out of place. It's the only thing ANY LBS had when I needed it.

i have both. the one prong park tool and the four tooth park tool.

i like the four tooth wrench better, but it doesn't fit my lockring anymore.

I'm in the market for a lockring tool of my own...the other night at bike church, I used Rikardi151's modified adjustable pliers dremeled into a lockring wrench to remove a friend's lockring...he should show everyone a picture if there isn't one up here somewhere already. The one posted at the beginning of the thread was the only one in the shop I could find, and it ruined the notch on the lockring pretty quick...Formula lockring.

hozen pliers. thats all. just pony up the cash.

I have been able to use these with some success. I have a bunch laying around from doing draught line repairs.