Re: [CR]Road find: The Ultimate Camapgnolo Seat Post Wrench

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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:32:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Road find: The Ultimate Camapgnolo Seat Post Wrench
In-reply-to: <p0624089ac2554f2871c9@[10.0.1.19]>
To: Sheldon Brown <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
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cc: Classicrendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
cc: Classicrendezvous

Hows this for a little sweeter deal. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93791. $29.95 for 5 wrenches including the 10mm and they are very nice indeed. The swivel head is a must for seatpost (and auto) work. If this wrench had been available, I think the two bolt cradle type post might still be the standard.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheldon Brown"
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:41:00 -0000
Subject: [CR]Road find: The Ultimate Camapgnolo Seat Post Wrench
To: Classicrendezvous, "BOB List"


> The other day my wife came back from her commute and showed me

\r?\n> her

\r?\n> latest road find, and I was blown away!

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I've long been a fan of Craftsman tools, but this one was new to

\r?\n> me.

\r?\n> It's a 10 mm wrench, one end is a classic open end, but the

\r?\n> other end

\r?\n> is a ratcheting box wrench on a lockable flex hinge. Here's a

\r?\n> Sears

\r?\n> page describing it in detail:

\r?\n>

\r?\n> http://tinyurl.com/22h9gu

\r?\n>

\r?\n> That page is for the 7-piece set, but I presume it is also

\r?\n> possible

\r?\n> to buy the individual wrenches.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Harriet has classic Campagnolo Record seatposts on two of her

\r?\n> bikes,

\r?\n> the Bottecchia fixed gear she commutes on and her old Holdsworth

\r?\n> road

\r?\n> bike. Now she has the PERFECT tool for adjusting these

\r?\n> excellent but

\r?\n> awkward posts.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Sheldon "Toolaholic" Brown

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