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			thirdraildesignlab posted a photo:	Cleaned up and reclaimed components from prior builds. These photos document my Carpetbagger project, a fixed-gear build fitted with S&S Couplers to be used as a travel bike. The general details of the build sheet are:1. SOMA Rush frame, 56cm: stripped, coupled, then powdercoated in a color to match my sweet, sweet MINI.2. S&S Couplers: break-away coupler set to allow the bike to be packed in an airline compliant case and avoid bike shipping fees; assembled by Tom at 41303. SOMA Sparrow bars4. Odyssey finger lever5. Shimano medium reach brake with Kool-Stops6. Handmade wheels by 718c.com with Velocity Fusions and All-City hubs in bright polished silver.7. Panaracer Pasela 700x23 tyres8. Elkhide by Velo Orange, hand stitched9. Custom bar end caps made from vintage typewriter keys.10. Velo-Orange Stem and Seatpost11. Brooks Swallow, Honey12. Sugino 75 drivetrain: 72 inchgearLove it. Team Lope Tyre Clubbe

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Stein UnFixieTool 9 The Stein Un Fixie Cog Remover

Who among us hasn’t sheared their knuckles trying to remove a persnickety cog lockring? (Among those of us who actually work on their bikes)

I was looking for an image of a tool the other day (the Trixie, a necessary staple of our ride kits discovered by one Lung) when I stumbled upon the Stein Un Fixie Cog Remover.

Talk about a product that looks worth it’s weight in gollllle. Too rich for my blood right now, but it’s like someone glommed a breaker bar to a lockring removal tool, then tried to beam it over to the wrongRoom(tm) and it had a teleporter accident. I love it. BEEFIER than the beefiest bottom bracket, I tell you what.

You can see some great review pics of the tool at Gears n Beers,,,

Best random semi-related note: I also saw THIS image, which reminded me very much of Lung’s early days of ride kit preparation:

biketoolbag The Stein Un Fixie Cog Remover

WANT! (well, the Stein, anyway.)

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