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Old 08-23-19, 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by JonathanGennick
Any bike shop should have spoke wrenches or can get them. Jenson USA is a decent online source that I often buy from. I have the Park Tool red, black, and green wrenches, and they seem to so far cover almost every wheel I encounter. Offhand, I believe red and black are the two that I use most often.
Yup. Black is the smallest, red is the biggest, and green is the mediumest. We used green on European spokes before DT came out with the black size, and then that size became more standard. Red is for Asian nipples.
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