Yes, you read that right, lasers. In fact, it’s not the first time Tune have made a laser alignment tool, previously putting out the Spurtreu handlebar alignment thingumy. They’ve got a new laser tool out now, but before we look at that, take a quick look at this:
Oooh, shiny! Can you tell what it is yet?
Anyway, back to the lasers. This is the Tune Lineintreu:
What could it be for?The adjustable laser pointer shoots a laser line like this.The reversible allen or torx fittings on the other end go into your derailleur…… and it projects a laser line onto your cassette and chain, allowing you to precisely set the positions of your derailleur limit screws before setting your cable tension.As the motto of many people who work with lasers goes: “Safety third. Do not look into laser with remaining eye”.
A lot of tasks in gear indexing can be done by sound, but that’s not always practical – sometimes there are screaming children, or someone’s on a turbo trainer in the room above you, or perhaps Chipps is nearby strumming a guitar, and you can’t quite make out those telltale rattles of too tight and too loose. Yanking on a detensioned gear cable, as many guides would have you do, is also pretty inconvenient when you’re running full length outers.
The red knob on the back lets you adjust the laser horizontally, so you can line the laser up with the teeth of any sprocket and see exactly how close to optimum the chain is running on it.This is a prototype, the production version is longer so as to accommodate 50t cassettes.RRP is €159. What do you think?That thing from earlier is a lightweight seatpost, the Leichtes Stück.It’s 27.2 only, and weighs just 155g.It’s available in black, red, gold, orange, silver, blue or green, and RRP is €199.This is a ~97g seat they were showing (the two labels claim 97 and 99), ideal for putting on top of the ultra-bling weight weenie bike jewelry just above.This is the Geiles Teil GT35 stem. At present, the only option for it is 35mm length and 35mm clamp, and it weights 115g.
You can find out more about all of these components and tools at tune.de.
David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
