Incredibly urgent... Surly Singleator Failure

... does anyone in West London have an 18mm cone wrench I can borrow for the next hour.

A component failure has stranded my girl and I'm going to ride up there, but lack the tool to do the job.

Call me: 07740 949 212

I'm doomed. There's few westies online.

dave - I'm just looking in the toolbox, gis a mo

Redefinition... if you happen to be very near Gants Hill even better... as I have to leave in a moment and that's the direction I'm going.

(one turned up, but it's in Mortlake and I can't make the round trip in time on a BMX and don't want to leave Fizz waiting on the street).

No worries. I'm going to see if I can intimidate it into working.

sorry gaffer putters doesn't sound any use to ya

sorry buddy

Plenty of 18mm sized wrenches.... does it need to be that thin?

I've got one but I'm in E3!

yeah. it needed to be thin. suicide ride home now

sorry mate - 13 and 15 only...
So she's gonna ride it back and possibly knacker the hub?
Taxi!

We're back safe and sound. I rode a BMX up there for Fizz to ride back, and then I rode her bike back.

The hub and stuff are all fine. The problem is the Surly Singleator. It lost it's tension because there is a little nut on the inside that tensions the spring and it must've been gradually working loose until it just gave up totally.

So with a severely slack chain, it was just jumping over (and off) the cog. She fell off when it happened but the only thing hurt is her pride (and a possible bruise on the elbow). But the real kicker is she had to walk up Gants Hill with it like that.

Anyhow, just considered it a suicide hub... re-adjusted the singleator so it was at least on the chain again, and then coasted down Gants Hill and pretty much all the way to Chiswick Roundabout.

Tomorrow I'll buy a 18mm cone wrench, but now I'll also consider the spring-less Rennen for chain tensioning instead.

there's a new tensioner on the market. american thing that the guys showed me in moose cycles.
looked very neat as it fitted round the bb. i guess you need to be running external bearing cranks as the mount replaces one of the spacers.