I now have a new respect for higher quality lockrings
 

So I was switching out my cog yesterday and had an old ass lockring that came stock on my Windsor awhile ago. I have only taken it off a handful of times, but yesterday as I was working on removing it, the damn notch in the lockring stripped. Luckily I still had one more decent notch and was able to remove it, but I am glad I have a Dura Ace lockring on the way. I also grease the hell out of the threads, so it wasn't a lack of grease.

True story.

Cool story, bro.

Aluminum lockring?

Could have been, was some shoddy stock lockring that came from bikesdirect. Do not want.

It can happen with any lockring. That's why I only use these:

http://www.ride-this.com/media/catal...H/Z/HZ3213.jpg

And yeah, cool story.

Whaaa? What are those? Are they more effective than a lockring tool? I'm intrigued..

If you have basic grinder skills its pretty easy to make your own version of that very effective tool.

They're Hozan lockring pliers and they're much more effective.

¿ Cuanto questa ?

I usually see them for $40-$50. Exactly the reason that I haven't bought one yet. It is an investment though. Since Scrod reps em so hard, let's see em for a good price on retrogression, eh?

Well there you have it, folks

I would like that. I got a bad bruise from the lockring tool slipping and bashing my hand on the spokes :(

Boom!

http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_...020489/300.jpg


I've got three on hand and more on order.

Tempted... but I'm already the proud owner of 3 hozan spanners.

Any good for use with BB installation scrod?

Nice price on the Hozan lockring wrench, too.

And you got a 1/8" chain whip, after I just bought one. Damn! Either way your **** is consistently cheaper than every other online shop I have seen.

Oh heyoooooo might need to grab that chain whip when I order something. Rotafix works, but it's getting kinda tedious.

AND the Hozan pliers work great on the S3X lockring :thumb:.

Yes, it helps a great deal to use a tool that bears on more then one notch. I use this one:

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/var-16.jpg

Also works on most BB lockrings (at least those with an even number of notches) and even those odd notched headset nuts.

Yeah, and last time I tried rota-fixing my cog I'm pretty sure I untrued my spokes :(
so now I use the chainwhip every time. Much quicker and I dont get my hands all greasy from the chain.

If that happened, your spokes were most likely under tensioned to begin with. But yeah, rotafixing kinda sucks.

Even so, I feel like it puts a large amount of torque on the spokes. Either way, chainwhips FTW

Good chainwhips. I've mangled quite a few cheapo whips.

Even the Park Tool ones suffer an occasional broken bolt every now and then but Park is really good about sending replacement parts free of charge.

What is the significance of the grooves on the side?