Re: [CR]Homemade tools in your toolbox - leather toe straps

(Example: Production Builders:LeJeune)

From: "Charles T. Young" <youngc@ptd.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <478FF006.8030804@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [CR]Homemade tools in your toolbox - leather toe straps
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:28:20 -0500
reply-type=response

Repurposed leather toe straps! Uses include but are not limited to:

(1) Substitute for a third hand tool when cabling up brakesets and much more adjustable. (2) To strap the front wheel to the downtube when a bike is on the stand to prevent it from slapping around and having the handlebar ding the top tube.

A handy addition to any well-stocked tool box / workbench / stand and provides something useful to do with those singletons that seem to show up when their mates die.

Other than strapping tubulars beneath a saddle, what bike-related tasks do you folks do with them?

Charlie Young
Honey Brook, PA
USA