Help me find this tool it was in my local bike shop and was a lifesaver when putting on tires but I can’t find what’s it’s called!
by aefrans
Help me find this tool it was in my local bike shop and was a lifesaver when putting on tires but I can’t find what’s it’s called!
by aefrans
13 Comments
Yikes be careful if you get one. Super easy to destroy your rims with that. I would say it’s better getting a bunch of plastic ones.
Looks suspiciously *not* like a tyre lever! Try searching for a brake piston tool and similar wording.
Where did you lost it? Maybe next time attach apple air tag to it?
In the meanwhile – you can buy a new one:
[https://www.bike-discount.de/en/search?sSearch=piston+spreader](https://www.bike-discount.de/en/search?sSearch=piston+spreader)
https://r2-bike.com/XLC-Brake-pistons-tool-for-disc-brakes-TO-S34
It’s called a “hand” and most people have two of them. It will be hard to buy one rhough.
Shouldn’t need tools to put on a tire unless maybe cushcore+DH casing. Also that’s for brake pistons not a tire lever
Uhm you seem a bit confused…
Please do not use this to mount mtb tires. Yes I am sure the bike shop mechanics do it all the time, that is why they are bike shop mechanics, it is a great was to ruin a rim and your wheel. If you absolutely cannot get them on by hand buy a set (2) pedros and take some time learning careful techniques. You don’t ever want to be using a metal lever to mount tires, that’s for cars and motorcycles.
If you struggle using normal tyre levers to put on or take off a tyre, there are some fancier options like [this Crankbrothers tyre lever](https://www.crankbrothers.com/products/speedier-lever).
That’s a lot of leverage to be using on your rims.
I’m pretty sure that’s a brake piston setter and not a tyre lever.
You shouldn’t need more than a set of Park tools or Pedros levers to get any tyre on (Continental also make some lovely low profile flat ones). Plastic levers break before the wheel does.
The only tyre I’ve ever failed to get on (and off) were some Tioga Team DH tyres, but they were dreadful anyway.
Better/correct technique is what’s needed.
That’s a brake piston spreader. You insert that in your caliper with brake pads removed and press the pistons back in, put new brake pads in it and then you’re able to put a fresh disc on your bike.