A cone wrench works fine as a "travel pedal wrench," but only Campy will stand up to it, not the cheap ones. Kingsbridge or Bicycle Research will fold like cardboard, I haven't tried one of the new laser cut Park cone wrenches for this yet. David Feldman
> Last weekend I stripped down an old bike and saw the old
> sandpaper-under-the stem trick. Some may not know these but find them
> useful. These are in the category of desperate times...
>
> 1) Need to adapt 25.4 bars to slightly bigger stem... I used to use
> sandpaper or (better) beer can as shim to make the fit and keep from
> sliding. Last weekend, found a better material: used ashim cut from an
> overhead transparency sheet, somewhere about 5 mil thick. rigid enough to
> slide in easily, easy to trim, and very nearly invisible from the edge.
>
> 2) The one-bolt seatpost ridges and valleys gone smooth, so the saddle
has
> a wonderful auto-tilt feature? Put a piece of pretty coarse sandpaper
> between them. the Garnet "sand" will dig into the metal and give a good
> surface. You don't care if the sandpaper is waterproof; the grains do the
> work.
>
> Next:
>
> What famous mechanic discovered the limitations of cone spanners as pedal
> wrenches? His secret is secure!
>
> harvey sachs