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If you have long nosed pliers, I would use them instead of a screwdriver to straighten the ends of the pin before pulling. Pushing the pin out is hard unless it's really straight (especially for a long one like this) but with long nosed pliers it's often possible to hook one end through the loop and use an adjacent flange as a fulcrum to lever it out.
– DavidW
Commented Aug 29, 2023 at 14:50
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(@DavidW) after bending both legs fairly straight, you can pinch them together with pliers and push part way . That works well, and beyond that point the hole will old the legs together
– Chris H
Commented Aug 29, 2023 at 15:18
In the end it took a lot of force to remove the pins. After bending the wings straight I was able to use a boot hook to pull out the shifter-side pin, but the boot hook bent when I tried to do the same on the brake-side pin. The method that worked in the end was to take a thin wire and thread it through the eye of the pin, then wind the wire around a pair of needle nosed pliers and use the pliers as a lever against the frame to pull on the wire. I got new pins and hopefully they won't be as hard to put in as the old ones were to remove!
– causative
Commented Aug 30, 2023 at 17:09

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