I am very fond of buying good tools that I can use to save me money at the shop and always appreciate something I haven't seen if can put it to good use. What do you recommend?
I recently bought a RockShox Reverb Stealth Barb connector for about 3 bucks and it has saved me a lot of stress and hassle and will use it every time I fit new brakes to an internally routed frame. It is a barb with a thread on one side and a reverse thread on teh other side that you can insert in the end of the current hose and the new one, spin it one way and it threads into both hoses meaning threadng through is super easy.
by Rootatoo
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Park tools torque wrenches
Park Tools tire levers. They saved my ass so many times on the road.
Feedback Sports “Sport Mechanic” bike stand. Use that thing all the time and it works so well. Got it for about $150 on sale a few years ago. The clamp mechanism works so much better than the cheap stands on Amazon or at Lidl
Not a mechanic but have been working on my bikes since I was 5. I’d say my favs are the crank bros multi tool, the park tools chain plier things, and the park tools crank puller. I can do most things with those three tools
Wera Hex Plus L wrenches, Park Sliding T-Handle set, Prestacycle TorqRatchet Pro, Prestacycle T Handle Ratchet deluxe, Wera Bit Driver, a set of good Torx bits with a few spares of t25, a digital torque wrench, and a Dewalt 8V gyroscopic screwdriver.
Oh and Pedros tire levers of course.
A nice Park Tools pedal wrench with a long handle. No more crescent wrench + rubber mallet for me!
I always found the sram barb pictured to be awkward for getting around corners and odd angles. I always use a brake cable that I’ve put a few kinks into now for changing out housing and it works flawlessly
Daysaver multitool, compact and well made.
Derailleur hanger tool. I end up tweaking a hanger at least a couple of times a season and having the alignment tool has saved me quite a few shop visits. It’s also the first tool I reach for when working on any bike with weird shifting gremlins.
Torque wrench!!!