I guess I'm lucky that most of our clientele are homeless dudes on steel-rimmed Magnas shod with old, floppy 1.95" knobbies.

Tool-free tire mounts all day = no problemo.

Oh, I don't use my thumbs to get tires on, either. I wring them onto the rim with the upper part of my palms. I should make video.

I had one a few years ago that was pretty gnarly paired with one on my palm that basically made my whole hand useless.

^
yeah that works too

edit: lesterofpuppets

Enjoy it while it lasts. When I was a 20-something, working in a bike shop, I had no problem doing tool-free tire mounts all day. Now that I'm 58, with arthritis in my hands, I can't do it anymore, so I use a bead jack.

^Obvious wimp is obviously wimpy.

well having a tool is a little excessive when you do it at most 1x/week instead of 10's or even 100's of times/week is all im sayin'

not trying to make some "bead jacks are for *****s" type maxim here

I can eat spaghetti just fine with my hands but - even though I don't eat it very often - I still prefer to use a fork.

I wish I could get my children to see things that way.

word.

Tools are for fools.

I like tools for eating.

I'm still tool-free when it comes to fingernail and toenail trimming, though :)

Says the kid who overtorqued a Thomson seatpost collar while using a torque wrench.

Says the kid who something something something.
I couldn't come up with anything.


beard face.

SICK BURN.

I'm pretty sure I don't want to know how one trims toenails without a tool.

I bite my toenails.

Keeps me limber.

And the lesson is: never tell the internet what you don't want to know.

Continued work on my Raleigh Pointe beater bike. Plan is to knock it down to a 1x7 gearing, add some caliper or direct pull canti brakes, Vetta saddle, and maybe replace stem and bars with something more to my taste.

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As long as you do it without tools, it will be accepted.

Will do. No tools for this manly man of men. Time for me to go and watch Ponies now.

Harsh bro.

Which bag are you using? I'm using a Manhattan Portage and I can't find a place to just hook my lock to.

I use a Chrome bag right now, used to do it with a RELoad too. When they're cinched up nice and snug, the strap just holds it against your body.

Tomorrow I should be getting packages from Paul Component as well as Scrod. Been trying to celebrate new knife day since I ordered a new pocket guy before I ordered my things from Scrod (who had to special order a BB for me) and its still not here.

I usually don't get anxious/angry about shipping, but goddamn. That long for an in-stock pocket knife?

today i sold the RED off the crux.
11 speed ultegra, here i come!