Yeah but, in all fairness manufacturing something out of a known "soft metal" - for a job that in its essence the main requirement is for it to be "reasonably hard wearing" is kinda asking for it (i think) - case in point, i buy a ducati second hand, dont need to take the wheel off...go on a long trip with said oberon tool, lets say, the wheel nut is overtightened (and i dont know that), i use said tool, turns to Plasticine - hey presto stuck on the side of the road..... Im only playing out that scenario cos its the sort of shitty thing that would happen to me... The typed word always comes off as "on the offensive" but im not....just playing devils advocate...ill happily get the steel one....
I get the spirit of it, and am typing in a cheery way... Part of the preparation of a trip, or getting a used bike and preparing to ride it around and trust it not to kill me, is making sure that the maximum number of unknowns become knowns. Checking the torques of all the bolts I'm likely to need to fasten or unfasten on a trip is a big part of that as I neither want to be stranded at the side of the road because something dropped off or stranded at the side of the road because I can't get something off... So I'd hope not to be in that position as the Oberon tool would have the ability to remove the wheel bolt torqued to 230Mn +/- 10%. If the tool failed in any way then I'd have grounds to invoke their guarantee as it hadn't been "reasonably hard wearing" when I'd taken all steps to only ask something "reasonable" of it. If I'd not checked those torques and the hub nut was overly "FT" causing the tool to distort then the question is whether it's "reasonable" to expect a lightweight travel tool to over-perform beyond the clearly stated intended parameters of use or whether my expectation there would be "unreasonable". I'm playing with it, as I get where you're coming from. But Perfect Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, as the grizzled bloke I did my apprenticeship with drilled into me. I would say that the vast majority of times I've broken tools, hurt myself or damaged my bike it's been because I've failed to observe this and check torques, cutting speeds, material types or any number of things we do in the moment because we think we know best. Sometimes, RTFM is the best advice!
Am I missing something, who carries the wherewith all to remove a big bore, single sided, swing arm wheel nut with them ? I certainly don’t have room for a 3ft breaker bar or a feckoff big rattle gun anywhere on my Panigale. I carry a socket in my top box on the Multistrada because I know none of the recovery sevices will have one big enough. Andy
Maybe you are, I don't think that anyone is suggesting that. We're talking about carrying a socket... It's a fair assumption that any recovery service is more likely to have a 1/2" breaker bar than a 55mm socket. You were saying that you had destroyed an alloy socket by using it with a windy gun, and that therefore the socket was no good. There was some discussion about that.
Setting the scenario again.... Say you get a puncture, youve got RAC, for example, van turns up, takes you to a tyre fitter....tyre fitter has no socket...youve got your chocolate tool from oberon, he uses a rattle gun, or (back to the other scenario) youve never taken the wheel of....same thing "could" possibly happen again...
All the more reason to carry a good tyre repair kit (Dynaplug in my case), some means of inflating the tyre (Motopressor Pocket pump) and a tyre pressure gauge. Andy
CTmoto dual-axel socket (stainless steel) Stop-n-go puncture kit (large 3/4 inch Plugs) compressor pressure gauge zipties, gaffa-tape few tools 2ltr can of filled fuel First aid kit Check!
Well, the point was more "if the wheel had to come off" for whatever reason...i was using a puncture as an example...lets go really out there and say a bearing in the hub failed...
