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  • What’s your favourite bike tool?
  • colnagokid
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    a Park ‘phillips’ type screw-driver, the little one that fits the adjuster screws on mechs perfectly

    silverpigeon
    Free Member

    This

    grumm
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    What does it do?

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    dustytrails
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    Have lots of fave tools
    USE UFO (flying saucer) bottle opener – got mine for £2.99 – probably gets more use than most “bike tools”.
    Would like a campy corkscrew – they’re really cool too.
    Seriously though. Everyone should have;
    A workstand
    Proper cable cutters
    Rubber malet
    good set of allen keys
    Pedal spanner
    Park mini chain brute

    mrfrosty
    Free Member

    Ti cool tool.

    crazy-legs
    Full Member

    My set of Halfords allen keys. They were actually pretty expensive, same kind of quality as Park but they’ve been going strong for years with no rounded bolts.
    The one tool I’d never be without is a track pump.

    Olly
    Free Member

    silver pigeons is a cable puller?

    useful for people with one arm, MAYBE?

    can someone name ONE thing a pillar drill could be used for RE bikes please?
    x

    shoefiti
    Free Member

    what a tool!

    Anthony
    Free Member

    Olly, it’s not a pillar drill 😉

    Pedros Star-Nut tool. Whop, and it’s in.

    squattingmouse
    Free Member

    4/5/6mm triple allen key spidery thing. Gets used so much more than everything else. Love it even more considering it’s the free MBUK one from years ago and it’s out lasted several other allen keys I’ve bought which have then rounded off.

    TheSwede
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    redthunder
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    lowey
    Full Member

    A decent set of cable cutters. Its almost fun to replace cables with them.

    The only other one was after 1 hour of brutal struggling trying to get an excessively worn shock bush out, Vortex from these parts invited me over to watch him use his shock bush tool and a vice. It made the job ludicrously easy.

    bigyinn
    Free Member

    My faves have to be my Pamir Engineering Hyper cracker and Shimano cable cutters.
    So easy after years of swearing with pliers and anything else that might but metal cables.

    IA
    Full Member

    I do enjoy a good bit of ratchet action.

    mrmichaelwright
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    UpQuickDownSlow
    Full Member

    Is that for facing IS brake mounts?

    UpQuickDownSlow
    Full Member

    grumm asked

    What does it do?

    about the Pedro’s garlic press thingy.

    The Pedro’s cable puller applies the desired amount of tension on cables tight while tightening pinch bolts. Locking lever holds the cable tight while using both hands to perform other operations.

    stilltortoise
    Free Member

    the one that set me off down the “right tool for the job” path was definitely a pedal spanner. Struggled for ages trying to change some pedals without, took a quick drive to the LBS, got a pedal spanner and “saw the light” when the pedal came off in seconds.

    Onzadog
    Free Member

    I always liked the Morning Star Freehub buddy but you don’t get much call for them these days.

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