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They do various sizes as they figure that the hole in the frame may become enlarged through wear. If you're just replacing yours for fun, get the smallest one. If your hinge was wobbling, maybe a larger one is required. You can definitely get them from a brompton dealer.
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- Learn Spanish if you don't know it already.
- Otherwise, at least learn the words for today and tomorrow because if you want to buy a train or bus ticket, probably you want it for today or tomorrow.
- Casa Particulares are great.
- Waterproof backpack. When it chucks it down, it really chucks it down.
- Learn Spanish if you don't know it already.
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It was a pleasure.
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Probably you forgot to use the nut to keep the tool on.
- Put tool against freewheel
- screw on nut so tool isn't going anywhere.
- apply incredible force with 12 inch adjustable and maybe foot.
- profit.
- Put tool against freewheel
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A clicking freewheel is a super safety feature, being a great non-verbal way to communicate to pedestrians.
If you have a grinder, there is nothing more fun than cutting a old freewheel and freeing all the tiny ball bearings from their circular metal prison.
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This one isn't bad if you have a 1/8 chain.
Cheap freewheels aren't sealed so crap gets into them and they die sooner or later.
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Using your foot has the advantage that you can hold the wheel with two hands and apply a lot more force. It doesn't look very elegant, so maybe best not done in public.
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If you can't find a vice, and you have a nice portable angle grinder with a few batteries, you could take everything to one of those old unused rusting metal ships moored alongside the smelly river, cut the correct width slot in the hull and use it to hold the freewheel tool whilst you turn the wheel.
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I presume you're using one of the track nuts to hold the removal tool to the wheel which is still encumbered with inflated tyre, then using a 12 inch adjustable (or equivalent) and pushing it down with your foot (on which you have a shoe)? Whilst holding the wheel with your hands, maybe with a wall stopping it moving forward?
If that doesn't work then you need a serious bench vice connected to a serious bench.
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