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They don't even pay road tax Joe. **Off topic thread**
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There are no bike maintenance guides which give you a complete list of all of the tools you will need to do bike maintenance.
In no Park Tools guide will you ever see a lump hammer and a cheap steel spanner listed.
But these are the tools you need to sort this. The lump hammer because it lets you take really good percussive strikes. And the cheap steel spanner so you don't wreck any of your good ones. Plus they're usually thin enough to let you use the "spanner side" of the pedal - a standard adjustable spanner won't fit.
Allen keys are nice and neat and work fine when you're only applying small levels of torque (< 30Nm) to something. If you need to apply really big torque, such as when you're removing a stuck pedal, allen keys have too much give.
A cheap spanner to remove pedals is a bad idea in my opinion. I've snapped a (seemingly) reasonably good spanner when removing a jammed pedal and the chunk it took out of my leg reminded me of why certain jobs need better tools, not lesser ones. So far I've been very happy with this hefty beast of a thing, a Park Tool PW-4, I have no qualms about swinging out of it whereas I couldn't do that with a lesser spanner for fear of it snapping in two and doing me harm in the process (again):
And Park Tool do have a 24oz/680g "shop hammer" too. I'm a great fan of having a hammer, or several, to hand when working on a bike, but a lump hammer is where I'd draw the line. With a lump hammer I believe the risk of doing damage to the bike (and tools), both where you are hitting it and elsewhere, outweighs any benefits it might have in terms of extra brute force over a lighter hammer.0 -
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Mercedes-Benz may have just put out a cheaper new "luxury" model to attract the commoners, but in most European countries, more people are interested in buying bikes.
On Friday, Nationa Public Radio published an analysis of vehicle sales in 27 European Union member states showing that bicycles outsold cars in every single country except Belgium and Luxembourg.Some of this trend could be linked to the dip in car sales due to the global recession, since the most extreme differences were seen in countries with lower GDPs than their more prosperous EU peers. Lithuania sold nearly 10 times as many bikes as it did cars. In Greece, new bike sales outnumbered car sales by more than five to one. The same held true for Romania and Slovenia, while bike sales in Hungary quadrupled those of cars.
Still, a similar pattern held true for Spain, Italy, France, Britain, and Germany, all countries that also witnessed more bikes than cars sold in 2012. As NPR noted, this was the first time more bikes than cars were sold in Italy since World War II. In the U.S., car sales are actually doing well for the first time in six years, but that's no indicator of what's to come, NPR noted.
As we've written in the past, the next generation of car owners just isn't all that into four-wheel drive, or luxury items, for that matter. Plus, with dreams of the Hyperloop making mass transit sexy again, conventional gas-guzzling cars suddenly seem a little passé.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3020711/heres-an-idea/bikes-are-officially-more-popular-than-cars-in-europe#!0 -
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