As bikes continue to change (and sometimes progress) so do the tools that make those bikes easier and more efficient to work on. It’s this effort to continuously improve a manual task that I find so intriguing about the world of new tools. With that, here’s a collection of freshly announced cycling tools. Some are priced for the home user while others will likely remain an interesting look at what the pros spend their money on.
Editor's note: A version of this article originally appeared on CyclingTips.
I have bee using one for a few years and don't miss CO2 at all.
It's useless, but only because I should have pumped my tires up anyway.
All it does is tell me what I already knew...that yes, my tires lost air overnight or the past couple days.
It stays in the bag now since I gotta hook my pump up every time to fill my tires for every single ride.
I carry one in hopes that it will bail me out at some point, but I've misfired the damn things 3 different times now.
Once I puked all the guts of the head in the dirt even. Like a monkey and vat of Crisco I am...
But my Lezyne mini-pump has bailed me out an oncountable number of times.
I'm eager to see someone trailside do the CO2 thing the right way so I know how it's done.
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Got the non-drive side crank horizontal and placed the pedal on a breezeblock with a towel between them.
Then pressed down with one arm on the seat (most of my bodyweight on it), one arm holding the front brake, and put an 8 inch breaker bar into the evil dub hex and jumped on the end.
Big cracking sound and it was free! Happy days. I raised a beer in the direction of this thread afterwards.
Presumably this could also be useful for ensuring that bars are completely centered as well. While that's easy to do for bars that have markings near the clamp area, some don't have that and it's even more difficult to center bars that have been cut and may be a hair longer on one side than the other.
The best part is bringing it on rides and being able to accurately adjust on the fly if needed and/or ensuing you actually have enough PSI in a spare tube or a plugged tire if a flat happens.
Thank me later.
www.motionpro.com/product/08-0556
And here's a really good Multi-bit screwdriver, I have three of these, one for household, one in my roll cabinet, and one in my DeWalt hand carry toolbox.....
***Shop around! Prices vary widely from vendor to vendor!!
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Alternate bit sets:
Automotive: This replacement bit set features
Double-Ended Philips 1-2
Double-Ended Torx 9-40
Double-Ended Torx 10-15
Double-Ended Torx 20-25
Double-Ended Torx 27-30
Flat 5.5 x Valve Stem Bit
1/4” Socket Adaptor
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6 REPLACEMENT-NAS - REPLACEMENT BIT SET - NAS BIT LOAD
This replacement bit set features
Double-Ended Square 0-3
Double-Ended Square 1-2
Double-Ended Philips 0-3
Double-Ended Philips 1-2
Double-Ended Flat/Slot 4-6
Double-Ended Torx 10-15
Double-Ended Torx 20-25
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“A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
-Antoine De Saint Exupery
Be safe be well,
Incognito Robin
For FAT bike where presure is rarely higher than 20 PSI it is realy mandatory to have a digital readout
The litle blue shwalbee is 100% more efficient and cheaper.
It does, it's called a pin spanner, and even a great one doesn't cost $30.
Make the V blocks on the mitre saw itself. I glued six rectangles of 3/4” ply together. Roughly 2x3” off cuts. Then used the saw to trim them square and cut the V of about 3/4” each leg, into them. Finally I used the saw to cut that block in half so I end up with two identical 2.25” thick blocks to go on either side of the blade. This lays nicely against the mitre saw fence and gives me perfect cuts every time. I don’t bother clamping the steerer anymore but did clamp it the first time I used it.