Gear Gallery……Local Bike Kitchen: ‘The Bicycle Works’
Show on mapChanging a freewheel is about a 2-3 minute job — if you have the correct tool!
To mount the Suntour 13-28t I needed a special Suntour four-prong extractor. So I rode down to The Bicycle Works and found one in their tool collection.
They’re located at Yolanda Station along the east-west bike route in San Anselmo. If you’re not yet a member consider joining.
From The Bicycle Works website:
The Bicycle Works is Marin’s non-profit do-it-yourself community bicycle tool workshop empowering our community with knowledge, skills, tools, and materials for bicycle related activity with open workshops, classes and a space for creative collaboration. Directors Jelani Bertoni and Spokey Godfrey, have launched this hub of community in San Anselmo to inspire the people and the planet to live more active, sustainable lives.
That’s Jelani in the background of the above picture. He showed me the neat trick of securing the extractor in the bench vice and then turning the wheel with downward pressure to unscrew it (normally, I would brace the wheel on the ground and turn the extractor with a long wrench — a much worse way to go about it).
Thanks Jelani!
I wish we had a community bike shop here in Fort Worth. The closest one that i know of is in Denton, about 40 miles away. Since there isn’t one here, I try to pick up tools every chance I get. I bought a Suntour freewheel tool when I came across one at bike shop in Austin recently. It has come in handy.
Myles/ rattrappress
31 Jan 10 at 3:11 pm
my dream is a proper garage workshop with all kinds of tools. but the bike coop is a 10 minute ride away, so my incentive is slim…btw, the suntour didn’t work out — “ultra” 6 spd, not true 6, as it turned out 🙁
fridaycyclotouriste
2 Feb 10 at 6:14 pm