Lockring

While the tool itself is simple basically, it's a cog that acts as a lockring remover the degree of embellishment surrounding it is extraordinary. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

And easy as you please almost but not quite as easy as using a regular lockring tool, the lockring is removed, allowing him to fish around in his pants for a different cog: ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

Sure, you can core and slice the apple with a knife, just like you can remove a lockring with a lockring wrench, but who cares? ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

"Cassette Crackers", which work in a similar fashion to remove the cassette lockring in an emergency, have been around for a while. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

Fortunately, I realized that taking my new Empire State Courier to the trendiest track bike boutique in town to purchase a cog and lockring would be an excellent opportunity to test its fixter appeal. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

I wanted a Dura Ace lockring so something on my bike would be NJS. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

If all of the energy generated by stopping your bicycle dozens to hundreds of times daily is focused through the cranks, chainring, chainwheel screwpegs, chain, cog & lockring, 7 to 10 aluminum threads on the hub and spokes and tires, instead of being diffused through two rims and tires;still with me? then the weakest link is in those under-engineered thin threads on the hub. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

And since I had resolved to spend absolutely no money on the Empire State Courier besides the money I had paid for the cog and lockring at Chari & Co. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

I spent a chunk of time trying to find out basic chainline specs on a Mavic wheelset yes, I have a set of Ellipses and yes, I finally found a way to get the f'in lockring to snug up... ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Here's another such tattoo, which presumably helps the wearer remember that his lockring is reverse-threaded: ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

I leaned my bike against the wall and sought an employee to help me purchase a cog and lockring. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

So you get a cog and lockring both compatible with and worthy of your "bulletproof" rear hub: ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Kind of like how a bottom bracket lockring on the hub of a cheap fixie conversion is still a bottom bracket lockring... ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

To be perfectly fair, the staff exhibited none of the attitude displayed by their clientele, and they supplied me with both a 16 tooth cog and a Dura Ace lockring. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

The hub is a Maillard Helicomatic and I don't have the tool to remove the freehub lockring. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)

Are they issuing it with every track cog and lockring? ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)

On top of that, someone has tried to remove it with the wrong kind of tool and sort of crushed the lockring. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)

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