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Bickering about bicycles, now with occasional tips about motorised vehicles
The Seldom Killer:
OK, two questions,
1) What is the make and model of your bike.
2) What do you need to replace the chainwheel (presuming here that you mean the big cog attached to the pedals sometimes referred to as a chainring)
Akima:
Might be useful: http://sheldonbrown.com/harris/chainrings.html and http://sheldonbrown.com/cribsheet-bcd.html
Ankhtar distinguishes between chainwheel and chainring in his post. I assume that by chainwheel, he means the the whole chainring/stackbolts/crank assembly.
The Seldom Killer:
Which is something that I would call a chainset or crankset.
Actually, not that I think of of it, an 8mm Allen key would be common use for removing a crank locking pin. But there's currently a few different systems so after that it can vary a bit. http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help can be helpful as well with some fairly good video guides. May also be work seeing of there's a bike kitchen or free access bike repair space in your area. These are places where you can make free use of tools and get advice from experienced people in exchange for volunteering a bit of time further down the line.
Stoon:
I bicycle until there's snow on the ground. I drive through the winter, and then when the snow melts bicycle again.
I used bike in winter as well, but my bike at the time wasn't the best. I got a new bike, which was truly awful for winter biking, and haven't cycled in winter since.
I think I'm one of only 3 people in the city who follow the rules of the road cycling.
Akima:
In Sydney, I am lucky enough to be able to cycle through the winter pretty easily. There's no ice on the road, and the coldest I've known in the city is low single figures Celsius. Heavy rain is the main weather challenge here. Years ago, I switched to wearing motocross goggles for eye protection, partly because of the clouds of dirty spray thrown up by the wheels and air-turbulence of passing trucks.
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