Which tool do you do?

1: apollo salt - daily rider, currently being repaired after hitting a car
2: giant stp2 - polo hack
3: avanti derelikt type 3 - dirt jumper, work in progress
4: kona stinky - downhill thrasher

frames:
5: kona stinky nine - hairline fractures on one of the rear linkages :frowning:
6: giant iguana - got it for free, was going to be the polo hack
7: giant atx-830 - my first reasonable bike, then turned into my first polo hack

i’d really like a metal lathe

1: Leader track frame 2008
2: Giant Dual Suspension (an oldie, rear suspension is a spring)

Tool of desire: a truing stand atm

Bosomworth track
On One Il Pompino crossbike
Cannondale CAAD9 4 roadie
S&M L.A.F. BMX

Tool? Not really a tool, but I’d love a nicely made compact storage solution for 4 bikes in my apartment.

1: 2007 Fuji track pro - Aerospok & blingy paintjob
2: 1985 Gitane Defi - suntour/sachs-hurret, most parts just holding together
3: 1986 Diamondback Silver Streak - tuffs and rust :smiley:
4: Tallbike project - malvern star/colnago + repco superlite, almost ready for pics.

Tool of desire: sewing machine for caaaash jobs

Bikes:
80’s, Columbus frame with Veloce 10 sp - built up by Shifterbikes.
Il Pompino CXSS

Frames:
Repco Superlight - to be sprayed matt black, fitted with colour coordinated, B43, Aerospoke and accessories!
Neighbours old Lawrencia - beater fixie, needs new rear wheel.

Tool:
A bike stand would come in handy. (But more parts come first!)

Bikes:
Look 595 w/Centaur (road)
Colnago Super (fixed)
Santa Cruz Chameleon (mtb)
Allegro M1 (SS beater)
1997 Free Agent Eluder (BMX, almost back in one piece)

Wanted Tool: P&K Lie truing stand (Home Zentrierst)

Bikes:
Track - Eddy Merckx
Road - Battaglin

Wish I had:
A work bench with a vice clamp and a buffing wheel :slight_smile:

Bikes (working):
'10 Malvern Star C5, 105 10sp
80’s Reynolds 501SL roadie, Veloce 10sp
80’s Europa hi-ten 1x6 shopping beater
80’s Columbus (Aelle?) SS (a chainring and its done)

Frames:
Fuji touring

+1 workstand…bikes rolling while you’re working gets tired real fast.

I have a buffing wheel I will depart with… It’s way to messy…

Bikes
Sancinetto Max Chorus 11
Paconi Ultegra 9 speed (Touring Bike)
Cecil walker 8spd (Wifes)
Swobo Sanchez SS (Wifes)

all hanging beautifully in my shed except when the wife gets back from a ride then her bike just lays on the ground until i hang it up…

Tool - Tap & Die set for BB’s, fork threads and pedals.

1: Dangermouse : piece’o’shit VISP tarckbike and my everyday beater
2: unnamed : random unknown road frame, was converted as my first fixed but is in pieces awaiting a possible cx build
3: Rusty : hard rubbish steel 10 speed pub bike, stripped back to bare metal and left nude (needs wheels to get him rolling again)

would like a work stand and a decent chain breaker, that is all
props on the EPIC thread dig

Samson NJS Track
Malvern Star (Whitehorn) Track
F(ake) Moser Pursuit Track
Viner Columbus CroMor Road

As for a tool… fuck I need a bench vise badly. Or a set of headset spanners.

Red Track
Elan TT
Giessauf Track
Repco Olympic 12 Roadie
Old Lewis ss
Visp Track
Ricardo conversion

I would like one of those chainring bolt spanners and like everyone else, a benchvise

late 70s-early 80s Pohliaghi Track
late 80s Ricardo Mixte (SA Made)
2009 Cervelo S1 full Ultegra

I’d love a good work stand. At the moment I just put my bikes on the trainer to repair 'em.

Question:
Do you call your pog ‘princess’?

No why? I am just about to restore the frame to hopefully her original glory though.

Hmm, you’re not who I think you are then.
Carry on.

70’s Malvern Star coverted to fixie
70’s Malvern Star Supertour converted to SS
50’s Malvern Star (2 Star) currently being built up
Giant mountain bike
60’s Cyclops converted to SS

Tool of desire right now is a bottom bracket removal tool for the 2 star or a cotter press.

Fav tool is the bike stand I got on sale from Torpedo7 - they are always on sale check em out!

Avanti Pista fixie
On-One Pomp SS road
Soma Van Ness, SS road
On-One 29 Inbred, SS ridgid
Giant Trance1
Repco Olympic 14, set up as a 2x 10 roadie, until I can find an old quality steel road frame 53cm
Cannondale 2.8 as wind trainer

Tool, probably headset press, Park naturally.

Fuji Track Pro for racing
Shogun Triple Triangle conversion for commuting
Inexa roadie for the weekends
Merckx Corsa Extra w/ C Record for the joy
And in the post is a carrera that will be a conversion (for now)

Tool of desire: work stand - sick of working on bikes upside down or leaning against something

Oooh this is easier than taking photos…

Currently:

  • Peter Bundy Columbus MAX Triple Triangle Track w Dura Ace and Nitto parts / Dura Ace to Deep V wheelset
  • Tommasini Columbus MAX Roadie w Campagnolo Record Titanium 9sp group/ Record to Open Pro wheelset
  • MAZZA Columbus MAX Track w Campagnolo C-Record track group / Cinelli / Shamals
  • MAZZA Columbus MAX Roadie w Campagnolo C-Record 8sp group / Cinelli / Shamals
  • Litespeed Vortex Titanium Roadie w Chorus 11 group / Easton / Mavic Cosmics
  • Chesini X-Uno Columbus SLX/SPX w C-Record groiup / Deltas / 3ttt / FIR (for sale)
  • Perkins Reynolds 853 Track Frame (for sale)
  • Zipp 440 laced to low flange Dura Ace 28h track wheels
  • Corima 4 spoke rear and 50mm deep front being converted to track
  • And a bunch of parts and a few incomplete projects

I’d really like a wider hallway, and a slightly less addictive personality…