Rare / Obscure Bicycle tools with description

[49autocycledeluxe]

great thread! love all this old stuff.

 

[Brutuskend]

Another bicycle fender hole punch.

 

[39zep]

 

[100bikes]

Schwinn shop aid.........

This tool will allow for centering the bars, aligns the brake levers and gives a gauge for taping them.

 

[Brutuskend]

Some other stuff

For lubing freewheels.

A park adjustable spoke wrench.

40's or 50's patch kit.

 

[cyclingday]

This little gem, has proven to be worth its weight in gold.

It’s a fork and stay spreader.
It allows you to mount the wheel in a closed drop out with an evenly and measured amount of spreading force.
No more pinched fingers, or gorilla like tactics.

 

[juvela]

This little gem, has proven to be worth its weight in gold.View attachment 1068583
It’s a fork and stay spreader.
It allows you to mount the wheel in a closed drop out with an evenly and measured amount of spreading force.
No more pinched fingers, or gorilla like tactics.

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Thanks very much for posting!

This be the HOZAN C-451:

https://villaveloframes.wordpress.com/2017/07/02/tool-of-the-week-hozan-seat-stay-opener/

https://www.hozan.co.jp/cycle/PDF/C-451.pdf

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[juvela]

Rim True ..

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Thanks for posting this tool!

Probably works fine with some fellies.

Purchased one about forty years back and tried it exactly twice.

With alloy box section rims all it does is to put a flat spot into the rim's inner wall.

Team mechanics for racing teams all have a tool to do a similar job which employs the hub barrel as a fulcrum point. The pusher spreads the load out over a greater stretch of rim circumference so as not to dent the inner wall of an alloy box section rim.

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[New Mexico Brant]

This little gem, has proven to be worth its weight in gold.View attachment 1068583
It’s a fork and stay spreader.
It allows you to mount the wheel in a closed drop out with an evenly and measured amount of spreading force.
No more pinched fingers, or gorilla like tactics.

@Jesse McCauley

 

[Brutuskend]

This little gem, has proven to be worth its weight in gold.View attachment 1068583
It’s a fork and stay spreader.
It allows you to mount the wheel in a closed drop out with an evenly and measured amount of spreading force.
No more pinched fingers, or gorilla like tactics.

I can see how that would be great for bending fork legs or drop outs, but I can't see how that could temporarily spread them for insertion, since you couldn't install a wheel with this mounted on the frame. Well, I guess if it was already through the spokes of the wheel before you put this on the frame. Seems like a lot of work when a flat pry bar could be quicker and work just as well...