Polo specific spoke key

Posted on Thu 22nd, October 2009

• #1

big_daddy_wayne

nice idea that, no need to take the wheel covers off…
• #2

Indeed, pretty cool. Where's it from?
• #3

big_daddy_wayne

http://www.hardcourtbikepolo.com/

was on here H-man
• #4

TheBrick(Tommy)

lots of multi tool spoke keys are like this, been around for years, also you can buy this from £2.00

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?PartnerID=79&ModelID=10013
• #5

This does not compute? How small would that thing be?
• #6

TheBrick(Tommy)

look to the right 3.3, 3.2, 3.5 mm most spokes in Europe are 3.3 mm I think.
• #7

Yeah, but imagine scaling that thing to a size where the ends would fit a nipple. Tiny!!
• #8

TheBrick(Tommy)

I get you, I expect it's fine, might not even be a pic of the actual spanner, alternatively you can just get hold of some really small spanners for a hardware shop, that's what I had before I knew about spoke keys
• #9

Yeah, here are some more.

And a proper looking one:
• #10

TheBrick(Tommy)

The bottom one looks the best and similar to one of my spoke keys that work like that. The thing with small bolts is rounding so having the spanner take in another couple of corners is worth while to minmise the chance of rounding.
• #11

BringMeMyFix

^that's not a spoke key. It's a tuning fork for small mammals and their tiny pianos.

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